Anybody working out their family tree?

I’ve been at it maybe 20 years. Before Ancestry came into being, it was weeks and months of looking at microfilm and old documents. Now a load of it is there on line, and Ancestry sends constant hints on anything that might relate to people in your family tree.

Today I discovered a really bizarre thing. A hint has shown me a picture of a cousin’s gravestone. It’s in a cemetery in Canada with details of her date of birth and parents names. It’s definitely the right person, but she’s not dead yet. This is a headstone waiting for the final date to be filled in when the time comes!

Is this a weird thing to do or what?

 

I don’t think it’s weird . Been thinking of doing something similar tbh

or did t you mean the headstone thing? Yep, bit weird

 

We have my dads side going back to 1600 then a gap to 976 where we have a saint with the same name in the same area of Holland.
Most of the work that gone into it has been down to a Mr A Hitter looking for Jewish blood

There’s a head stone with my dads name on it but it’s a relative

 

Headstone thing is weird - yes.

 

Ok so buying your plot isn’t that weird. My mum and dad have done a funeral plan to guarantee that they can both be together as some plots you are not permitted to dig double depth.

but putting a headstone on an empty grave for a live person is bizarre in the extreme. My advice. Don’t contact them. They are definitely the odd branch of the family, no matter how weird you think your lot are. Jeeeez.

 

It almost looks like when her dad died, she got a two for one offer on the headstone - it’s nearby in the same script.

 

You’d better hope they don’t discover that she’s had one done for you as well.

it like the start of a steven king novel or a twilight zone episode

 

Well you are from York ( shire ) .. so not that surprising.

 

I've done my Dad's side back to 1720
But to get back more I need to go to Pembrokeshire.
Also last Christmas my wife bought me the Dna kit here's the results from it.

https://www.myheritage.com/dna/ethn...0174&utm_content=dna_results&tr_date=20181209

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That’s all very well but they didn’t say what 4% bit of you is Jewish.

 

Hmm, well it would make sense - her mother was from Leeds.

 

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On my mother’s side, I’m the relative of The Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1411. Also, a ancestor of the founder of the village, Uphill, (mothers maiden name), near WSM.I think on my dads side, he was related to a local highwayman.

 

My sister proclaimed for years we were from royalty from the north of Italy. Till I really made her stop with her stories.
When in fact my grandparents and there ancestors were uneducated peasant rock farmers from the south of Italy. We left our castle .servants, land and wealth for one stuffed trunk . a one-way ticket. On a crowded ship.All for the adventure of living in the beginning of the 20th century in the downtown slums of New York...

 

Funny you should say that. But I genuinely am descended from a wealthy land owner in Northern Italy. Not that it’s ever done me any good. I can’t even speak one word of Italian. My mum is second generation Italian immigrant.

 

Too bad. Look at all the fun they had .
Here’s a stock photo. But it’s about a few blocks from where my grandparents lived in where my father was born. Mulberry street.

Little Italy. When it really was little italy.

 

I should introduce you to my sister.

 

We all came from Africa, didn’t we..?

 

I’ve just come from Asda. Is that the same thing?