Family history

cena

Have any of ye here looked at your family history. I would love to see the pass history of both sides of my family. Only I don't know where to start.

WIZE

Start with your Parents and ask about your Grand Parents

JuliusCaesar

cena wrote: »

Have any of ye here looked at your family history. I would love to see the pass history of both sides of my family. Only I don't know where to start.

Here might be a good idea.

John Doe1

Yeah ive started a family tree, my fathers side of the family were Yeoman in the 1798 rebellion fighting against the rebels and later were signers of the ulster covenant. I can trace back to the 1600's on this side

On my mothers side, My Great grandfather was a gun runner for the old IRA and a senior member. Bit of a difference

cena

WIZE wrote: »

Start with your Parents and ask about your Grand Parents

I have asked my mother but she doesn't know that much as the family Is from all over the world.

Mike 1972

cena wrote: »

Have any of ye here looked at your family history.

Given that the whole exercise is based on the highly dubious assumption that ones ancestors were all faithful to their spouses I could never see the point.

Irish Guitarist

I don't really know anything about any of my family older than my grandparents. My cousin did a bit of research though and I think she discovered that one of our ancestors was hung for stealing sheep.

I've seen a photo of either my granduncle or great granduncle in a world war one army uniform. I don't know anything about the man apart from that though.

Kylo Ren

My sister is Carlos Santana.

Azureus

Started looking into my Dads side of the family last year-wasnt too hard with the census and facebook to be fair. Found a lovely cousin I didnt know I had who gave me a pretty decent history of em all way back centuries. Got to meet my Dads brother who he was estranged from before he died. Very worth doing imo
Wouldnt be bothered with my mams side-theyre all nutters so I know where I got that from already.

bbam

Get some good software first...
I tried a few and settled on www.myheritage.com
Nice software which uploads to a website for free, which can be private or open.

Start asking questions, look up the census records here.. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

And this crowd have a good deal of parish records at a small fee...
http://www.rootsireland.ie/

Lastly be open minded... I found some unexpected turns in the family tree that I've had to keep from my siblings for the moment...

KeithAFC

Can date my family history back to the 1600s. 1916 at the Somme and 1914 in Larne.

Da Shins Kelly

I don't know anything beyond my great grandmother on my dad's side. I don't think my family got in any way interesting until my grandmother got involved. A very formidable woman, she was.

phasers

Mine is very messy and almost impossible to trace, the only thing I know is that my Great Granny ran off with a French chap

mikom

cena wrote: »

I would love to see the pass history of both sides of my family.

Lol, only pass.............. it was all honours in our family tree.

later12

Yes, ours goes back to the 18th and 17th centuries when the link is lost. I really couldn't give a damn about most of it, since any distant greatness has been well diluted.

I'm more interested in the more recent generations,although it can be fun to know what your great great grandparents were doing during the 1798 rebellion (for example), where they were living, and to guess what they might have thought of it all.

biko

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Here might be a good idea.

Aye, best place to start.
Good luck.