Genealogy - just the off chance

[MKG]

Is anyone here into family research? Is there anywhere I can post a few questions without spending a small fortune on questionable results? Failing that, does anyone have 19th century ancestors from Berwick upon Tweed - particularly Tweedmouth?

[kiwirach]

try rootschat.com people seem to be quite helpful there.

[MKG]

Thanks Kiwirach - I hadn't heard of that one. I'll give it a go.

[Wombat]

No, no really, but we've been to Berwick-on-tweed!

Nev

[MKG]

Ah, Nev, but you wouldn't have met my Italian family, because I've just discoverd that they buggered off to Edinburgh by 1901.

Kiwirach - that site you gave me is brilliant. I posted a question and had an answer within a half-hour - and it was the right answer!!!! Now I know that my great grandfather was called Michelangelo Rizzo, which is a strange thought for someone called Griffiths.

Ciao all.

[kiwirach]

cool MKG, glad it all worked out for you. its a great site for info....i found info on a criminal ancestor who was sent to NZ at age 14 on there, so i check it out once in a while.

[Annpan]

cool MKG, glad it all worked out for you. its a great site for info....i found info on a criminal ancestor who was sent to NZ at age 14 on there, so i check it out once in a while.

I didn't realise that anyone was sent to NZ I thought it was just Australia that was full of criminals and unsavoury types

*ducks to avoid boomerangs being chucked my way*

[MKG]

AND... AND ... AND, Annpan, he turned up in Lanarkshire - Langholm, to be precise. You don't have a shadowy Italian in your past, do you?

[Annpan]

Well no, I am not from Lanarkshire, I am from Glasgow... though my great great grandparents were married in Lanark, on hogmany in 1840 or somat - My FIL is addicted to doing the family tree stuff and he has traced back my family a good bit... basically (like most people from the west of scotland) you run out of info when you get to the people from Ireland.

[Millymollymandy]

I was very into doing my family tree but really got as far as I could get with all branches of the family.

Both sides of my family have Scottish ancestors and I'm actually a quarter Scottish! I don't feel it though!

[Jobi1canobi]

We have a huge family tree that goes back 8 generations - Berwick upon Tweed rings a bell.

Bear with me - I'm going to Newcastle again this weekend but I'll dig it out when I'm back on Monday and let you know.

[MKG]

Well no, I am not from Lanarkshire, I am from Glasgow... though my great great grandparents were married in Lanark, on hogmany in 1840 or somat - My FIL is addicted to doing the family tree stuff and he has traced back my family a good bit... basically (like most people from the west of scotland) you run out of info when you get to the people from Ireland.

Nahhh - you can't get out of it that easily. He was a bit of a roamer, because he ALSO turned up in a place called Barony. Took me ages to find that one. It's now been absorbed into the city of Glasgow (Barony Hall is the last reminder) - an area near the cathedral, I think.

[grumpy-gran]

It is a great site and could spend hours on there

[kiwirach]

cool MKG, glad it all worked out for you. its a great site for info....i found info on a criminal ancestor who was sent to NZ at age 14 on there, so i check it out once in a while.

I didn't realise that anyone was sent to NZ I thought it was just Australia that was full of criminals and unsavoury types

*ducks to avoid boomerangs being chucked my way*

yeah thats australia...... .....the better class of crim was sent to NZ!!.

in seriousness.....he was a parkhurst boy....imprisioned in Parkhurst Prison and for some reason best known to the English Government....they shipped out boat loads of young lads to Oz and NZ.

[Rod in Japan]

I hope all of you who are dabbling in genealogy have read Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It's a very cautionary tale.