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

py2006 · 15-05-2014 05:30PM #1

... 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 · 15-05-2014 05:33PM

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 · 15-05-2014 07:32PM

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-05-2014 07:42PM

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

wazky · 15-05-2014 07:44PM

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

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 15-05-2014 07:44PM

Farmers, everyone was a farmer.

Birneybau · 15-05-2014 07:47PM

What did you find???

Oh, we knew that already.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-05-2014 07:48PM

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 · 15-05-2014 07:50PM

Have a claim to the Iron Throne.

Birneybau · 15-05-2014 07:52PM

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 · 15-05-2014 07:53PM

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. · 15-05-2014 07:54PM

Turned out Im related to John McEnroe.

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

Spanish Eyes · 15-05-2014 07:54PM

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. · 15-05-2014 07:55PM

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 · 15-05-2014 07:58PM

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. · 15-05-2014 08:04PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:07PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:12PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:17PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:17PM

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

py2006 · 15-05-2014 08:27PM

dmc17 wrote: »

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

My joke was funnier but nobody got it...

deseil · 15-05-2014 08:39PM

A squirrel called Cyril

RobbingBandit · 15-05-2014 08:41PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Have a claim to the Iron Throne.

USURPER, USURPER, USURPER.

Joe Doe · 15-05-2014 08:41PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:44PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:54PM

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 · 15-05-2014 08:56PM

My great grandparents were first cousins :eek:

mel.b · 15-05-2014 09:07PM

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 · 15-05-2014 09:08PM

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. · 15-05-2014 09:13PM

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 · 15-05-2014 09:14PM

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.

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

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