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  • 04-11-2014 11:44am
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    MargeS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭


    When I started researching my family about 4 months ago I thought, this should be easy enough and give me something to do to pass the time.
    How wrong was I!

    I loved researching right from the start. But jeez did I under estimate the work/time that is required. I've managed to research back to the first quarter of the 1800s on both sides of my family.
    But I'll keep going just to see if I can get back any further. :D

    I'm going to try and concentrate on the locations they were born/lived and learn more about the times. I've found myself get side tracked reading up about town lands, poor law unions, Dublin tenements, county boundaries, I could go on...
    I'm going to see if I can make a book so that at least I can have something to pass on to the next generation.

    Anyway, I didn't do it alone. Thanks to all here who helped and advised.


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    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Good on you.

    In my case the first 'phase' of my research was all online or with the GRO.

    However, once I found myself up to my knees in weeds in an abandoned graveyard late on a January evening trying to trace a faded gravestone in the rain- I knew that this was becoming more than a hobby!


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