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rupert_pupkin
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Has anyone successfully done this? My mum has been talking about doing it for years but doesn't know where to start, one of her parents was from another country and there is minimal info to work with. Is it a waste of time unless you've got a bbc crew with you or can it be done?
Any tips?
Any tips?
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In addition, there are also a shed load of threads on it on here too
I have been able to trace relatives back tilll 1774, so far. People contacted me who were related, but we had never met them. They provided me with some more people to add to my tree, they sent photo's over of my great grandad in WW1, and I even found out one of my distant distant relatives had murdered his wife.
Good luck lol.
Oh and be carful, some people don't like the past being dug up, I discovered family secrets which caused upset when I was doing it.
I thought there might be, but I can't search the forums on a phone unfortunately
The search function on here is woeful whatever you use.
I just want to add that if you're using info provided by other people, you should always check the original records, going back one generation at a time, as you would if you were doing it yourself. I've seen some terrible mistakes on peoples' tree on ancestry and other sites. These mistakes then get copied and repeated on lots of other trees, all over the net.