I looked up my family tree and found out...

py2006

... I was the sap!

Have any of you After Hours'ers considered doing the whole family tree thing? I remember hearing before that a lot of the official records prior to the 20th Century were lost/destroyed so I am not certain how accurate they are.

I know so little about my family beyond they grandparents but I'd love to find out as I am sure we are just full of royalty. :P

Also, we must have so many distant relatives in the States etc as a result of the famine that we don't know about who might just look a lot like us.

Fascinating stuff or could you not give a rats ass?

D1stant

I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in a fire

I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

Angry_Mammarys

I did it and found out im related to the peach in james and the giant peach:eek::eek::eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND

There's always a few surprises in store I say. Families are great at covering up their black sheep.

wazky

I looked it up once and found I originated from an ancient chimpanzee.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Farmers, everyone was a farmer.

Birneybau

What did you find???

Oh, we knew that already.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Parish records and memories from old relatives are excellent. I have one line of my family back to 1764, another to 1780. I'm stuck on a maternal line at 1901 due to the usual hushed up story of a father deserting his family and bigamously marrying elsewhere. Fascinating stuff to get in to and addictive.

Turtyturd

Have a claim to the Iron Throne.

Birneybau

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have a claim to the Iron Throne.

I'd say it's cold. Put a towel on the front of it before using.

robman60

Only interesting thing I know is my mother's maiden name lost an "e" approximately 100 years ago. I'd love to know more about it really. My aunt did a good bit of research and knows more, don't actually know what she uncovered though.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Turned out Im related to John McEnroe.

Fcuk all use to me though.I cant play tennis for sh1t.

Spanish Eyes

I was doing the family tree in my fathers side, and discovered that my great great etc. uncle was the Archbishop of Dublin.

I was gobsmacked. No one ever mentioned that to me. But they didn't tell me my great grandad was married twice either, so some of my cousins are half cousins. Or something.

It is totally fascinating and addictive. The census records are amazing. The feeling you get when you find a family member there is really great.

Sir Osis of Liver.

robman60 wrote: »

Only interesting thing I know is my mother's maiden name lost an "e" approximately 100 years ago. I'd love to know more about it really. My aunt did a good bit of research and knows more, don't actually know what she uncovered though.

Robeman?

Ruu

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Turned out Im related to John McEnroe.

Fcuk all use to me though.I cant play tennis for sh1t.

As am I. Also found out in this thread, I could be related to Boards.ie Great, Sir Osis of Liver! :eek:

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ruubot2 wrote: »

As am I. Also found out in this thread, I could be related to Boards.ie Great, Sir Osis of Liver! :eek:

Possibly related to Ruubot,Boards carte blanche here I come.:D

Mars Bar

I'm always jealous that the celebrities get to do "Who Do You Think You Are?" show. They can well afford to have someone do it all for them. I'd love to "win" a place on the show.

I'd love to do my family tree! I know some digging has been done on my Dad's side as we found out that we are related to the current Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown. It has been lovely to meet him and his family, including his very elderly mother who came to Ireland to visit for the first time!

There's a genealogy forum on Boards too, btw.

KKkitty

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Turned out Im related to John McEnroe.

Fcuk all use to me though.I cant play tennis for sh1t.

You cannot be serious!! Me I found a grand uncle was killed by the Black and Tans.

Ilyana 2.0

My uncle has done loads of digging around but hasn't found anything too exciting. There are rumours, not yet substantiated, of a Michael Collins connection (who hasn't got one?!).

My great-uncle apparently escaped from a German POW camp three times though, living to tell the tale.

dmc17

I looked up my family tree and a bird shat on me :mad:

py2006

dmc17 wrote: »

I looked up my family tree and a bird shat on me :mad:

My joke was funnier but nobody got it...

deseil

A squirrel called Cyril

RobbingBandit

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have a claim to the Iron Throne.

USURPER, USURPER, USURPER.

Joe Doe

Fairly closely related to a chap that lived to 115yrs, whom at one stage was the oldest recorded living person in the English speaking world (which included most of India back then). He walked 6 miles to mass every day right up until the last day. Some say it was all the walking that did him in.

So if you're a pleasant lady and considering replication, need some good genes, and look like Kate Beckinsale, call.

jippo nolan

I found out an aunt of mine fled America during the mc carthy witch hunt in the nineteen fifties,
She wasn't accused of being a communist,
They said she was a witch!

orangesoda

I have a serious amount of yank and canadian distant cousins, I was in contact with one by email a few months ago.

there is some northern division Ra, British army, emmigration and plenty of gaelic war fare stuff in there as well

toddunctious

My great grandparents were first cousins :eek:

mel.b

My aunty is doing the family tree and I discovered that my great great grandfather (I think that's right...could be great x 3) was Jewish - the whole family was Jewish, babies born in a Synagogue in London etc. I found that really weird as I naivelly thought being Jewish was something you didn't 'give up' so to speak, but at some point their last name was changed from Abraham to Braham.

Alf. A. Male

I know someone who looked up her history and found her Great Grandmother was a prostitute. Not to judge or anything, but that put me off delving into mine, just to be on the safe side.

Sir Osis of Liver.

toddunctious wrote: »

My great grandparents were first cousins :eek:

Does that make you your own third cousin?
How many toes have you?

corner of hells

D1stant wrote: »

I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

Fcuk , The Mansion House had records too , I thought they were all in the Custom House when it was burned.

donegal__road

My family are big into this, we can go back directly to 1540, and indirectly to 1270 when the surname first appeared in Ireland with the Normans. I have participated in family DNA projects where I sent DNA samples off to the US to see if matched any participants with the same surname.. I was an exact match with 5 males in the US who were part of the same project.. they all share slightly different variations of my surname.

My great great ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, grandfather was an Irish chieftain who was hanged by Cromwell.

orangesoda

donegal__road wrote: »

My great great ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, grandfather was an Irish chieftain who was hanged by Cromwell.

the auld Ulster army led by eoghan roe o'neill?

Capt'n Midnight

KKkitty wrote: »

You cannot be serious!! Me I found a grand uncle was killed by the Black and Tans.

Used to love the way Myles na gCopaleen used to boast about his father being one of them

before it was popular or profitable

Supergurrier

My family got it's name from the King of France after the crusades because apparently we were excellent at butchering muslims.

That's nice.....

Sky King

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I know someone who looked up her history and found her Great Grandmother was a prostitute. Not to judge or anything, but that put me off delving into mine,

Heh

Brinimartini

D1stant wrote: »

I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

You mean the 1922 fire at the PRO at the Four Courts.

Brinimartini

D1stant wrote: »

I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

You mean the 1922 fire at the PRO at the Four Courts.

amorphous

Mines a stump!

Brinimartini

corner of hells wrote: »

Fcuk , The Mansion House had records too , I thought they were all in the Custom House when it was burned.

Nope, it was the 1922 fire at the Four Courts when the gov forces attacked the rebels holed up in the Public Records Office which was in the cupola at the top.

Brinimartini

corner of hells wrote: »

Fcuk , The Mansion House had records too , I thought they were all in the Custom House when it was burned.

Nope, it was the 1922 fire at the Four Courts when the gov forces attacked the rebels holed up in the Public Records Office which was in the cupola at the top.

orangesoda

donegal__road wrote: »

our surname is from the other end of the country.. grandfather got transferred north you see.. but Eoghan Roe O'Neill is of the same era and died around the same time as my g,g,g,g,g,g,g, grandfather

how did you get back to the 1500's? i have as far back as early 1800's and it's the period between 1600-1830 that is the big problem,

donegal__road

orangesoda wrote: »

how did you get back to the 1500's? i have as far back as early 1800's and it's the period between 1600-1830 that is the big problem,

We could go back that far because the original family were given land in the west of Ireland (barony) by the government in Dublin in 1270, and like other Anglo Norman families of the time, acted as a type of landlord for the government.. so land dealings were recorded by way of court records which kept account of who was acting landlord at the time, and who they were related to etc.


*there is a book called The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght which is a great resource for anyone researching Irish surnames. You should be able to get a copy at the library.




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LizzieJones

One of my great-great grandmothers smoked a pipe and was a bit of a formidable woman in her day.

stefan idiot jones

If in five hundred years time, some descendant of mine finds me in the family tree they are going to be so fcukin' disappointed.

Mr. CooL ICE

I'm a somewhat distant relation of Che Guevara. His grandfather was from Galway (a descendent of one of the 14 Galway tribes). Can't remember the exact link.

orangesoda

orangesoda wrote: »

there is some northern division Ra, British army, emmigration and plenty of gaelic war fare stuff in there as well

your mans ambush was mentioned in the adelaide star in 1922, orders were given by the famous sean larkin for the attack

donegal__road

LordChessington wrote: »

I'm a somewhat distant relation of Che Guevara. His grandfather was from Galway (a descendent of one of the 14 Galway tribes). Can't remember the exact link.

the Lynch family

turnikett1

I'm a freak for history so I would LOVE to find out my family history. I dont know much beyond my grandparents. I know my great uncle fought in the War of Independence and then as an anti-treaty IRA volunteer during the civil war. He was hunted by the Free State authorities and went on the run in England, fugitive for the rest of his life! Died and buried in England with full IRA funeral. My great-grandfather was in the Spanish navy during the Spanish Civil War, he was conscripted into Franco's forces unfortunately.

My recent Irish history was probably just farmers in rural Cavan. I'd love to find out about my Spanish side though, I wonder if I'm descended from some murdering pillaging conquistadores... I dont know how to go about doing it though

swimming in a sea

My family tree seems to be full of nothing but 'Country Gents' or as I think they were called in them days 'peasant farmers'

Santa Cruz

D1stant wrote: »

I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

"The Mansion House Fire" ?? Tell us more about that one