No, my ancestry is all settled - came to America long before the Revolution, had an officer ancestor who had 17 kids and appears in dozens and dozens of other trees. Once I got back to him, it was kind of a letdown, because all the work had already been done. He's documented all over the place because of his war service, and nearly all of those kids lived to have their own, so literally thousands of cousins I have out there from this one link.

The mystery inheritance is on my husband's side. Problem is their mother and grandmother have been gone for years, and they only know about this from the story being told to them years after the fact. I think the main problem is they assume it would be in her married name, which I suppose is possible if her husband died first, but I suspect it's more likely it was through her maiden name. I'm stuck on her side of the family, because every new census/birth certificate/etc spells it differently.


It might be worth checking Ancestry on a free trial, just to see if someone else you're related to distantly has put their own family histories online. A lot of the documents I find aren't actual historical records, but pictures of cemetaries, letters written between family members, things like that.

Aye, tell me about it.
Once you start delving into it, it's an almighty headache. Especially with pure pahstun, mixed pashtun, punjabi, afghan etc.etc. And now apparently Israel....?
The scary thing is: when it comes down to needing blood/ a donor, it's pretty difficult to find a match. Something that has hit my family. When you can't find a match in the whole of the UK, you know your bloodline is complicated.

Wow! Complicated indeed. It may serve you to do as Flight says and take ancestry for a free 14 day trial - someone else on there may have a tree which you will be able to view and give you links to your family.

Just nipping back in quickly to nab some cheese and niceness before I enjoy some more sun and leave the brouhaha out there till later

I wonder if there are any lurkers willing to share their username story? I chuckled muchly over so many of them - I'd love to see some more!

Corker of a weekend - got whisked away! Still in hols mode so off to the garden! I toasted you all *many* times in the last 48 hours Too many times

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*flops into chair*
i think i might have OD'd on total bollox
*sighs*

Is that you Charlotte?

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Must be nearly wine, beer and cake o'clock.

*Sets up table for weary battle mongers*

Just got back from harvesting my sweetcorn at the allotment, got to find room in the freezer for 37 ears of corn now.

But we do have Charlotte

Very nice. lashings of butter and pepper please


Still got about /12 a garden to mow
Still it's been pretty quiet overall today. Even had a 'this ^' from a mod, before they locked the thread

Fun last night was hairy though
Loved one thread where I dropped in a 'panto season's early' when it got a bit antsy, and within about 5 minutes it turned into a full panto audience mode before disappearing down the lists
Let's hope Ron doesn't do another one tonight or it'll be a total nightmare. Oh God!

I get roadkill sweetcorn

Yep I saw that. I felt pride by association. Was a bit miffed though because I had just set out my stall in a bid to take that thread up market.

I know - I just couldn't resist

hmmmmmmm "i am too busy" has been closed i think i know why....

I'm never going to be able to eat sweetcorn again.
It would be too difficult to explain why I'm cackling

Log on the Tyne!

nice

MIL just popped in and left with half my produce. She must smell me coming home from the allotment.


Yum, roasted in tin foil with butter and pepper for 10 minutes, My favourite!


My dad used to bring home pheasants that way.

Hi everyone
Just popped in to say hi. What a beautiful weekend. Sunshine, good food and lashings and lashings of ginger beer

Binger gear here, loads of bottles and nibbles!

And hic, sorry hi

Cheesy nibbles coming right up

i'm sure all the red headed people are going to be up in arms now with the use of that taboo word

other beers are available

Oh and Dave, mission complete