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Up until about 18 months ago we were spending almost every weekend at the Family Records Centre in Faringdon looking for our old dead relatives. All the records have now been moved to the National Archives place in Kew so this weekend we're going to go exploring and kick-start this pastime once more. So far I've managed to go back to 1798 and found my 4th Great-Grandparents, 7th generation, George Thorogood/Thurgood (his surname changed through the years) and his wife Ann. Unfortunately I don't have her maiden name yet. I have a few others in the 7th generation but need to find out more information. My 3rd Great-Grandparent George Bayley was born in Dublin so if I'm going to trace him back further I'm going to have to go to Ireland. I remember finding a relative of mine that lived in Bristol in the same street at the same time as one of Neil's relatives which was quite strange!

Anyone else doing their family tree?

Well done Lorna. I have been thinking about doing a family tree but chickened out but since hearing how to do it im going to give it a go

Thanks Max, this will give you a good starting point. Have a good read through this site... www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm enjoy 

I'm currently back to about 1780 following the male line on my dad's side.

Family tree's and family information has been a lifetime obsession of mine. In my adoptive mothers family I have a tree dating back to the mid 1500's. I did not do the research, one of my cousins did.

I have a twist on my story as I was an adopted child at the age of 5 weeks. I have been reunited with my birth family for 17 years now. My birth father married my birth mother a few years after I was born, and they went on to have two more children. They are still together and my birth siblings and parents live in Australia, but they are from Yorkshire, as are my adoptive parents. It has been the most profoundly effecting journey for me to find my genetic roots. It has explained many things too numerous to mention here. I have loads of relatives on my birth side in Yorkshire, many of whom I have now met. On my adopted side I am also very interested and fascinated in my family background.

A good deal of our identity comes from our genetic roots, not just from the environment that we are brought up in. I could talk for hours about this subject, but I wont bore you. But it has been very cathartic to find and reconnect to my family of origin.

Thanks Bob, very interesting read. I find it very rewarding to find another name and then to order and have copies of the birth/marriage/death certificates is quite amazing. I have someone with an interesting first name, he was born 1831 and was called Pilate Thurgood, his death certificate says Thorogood. Two of his siblings were called Ezra & Tamar then he had a sister called Ann and a brother called Henry!