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Hi all,

Im trying to decide how far to go back with my tree and was wondering how many generations back other people had gone?

I had originally planned 8-10 generations but im having troubles with my Irish quarter of my tree... as in i have found nothing!? Aswell as that I have one of the English quarters with a few illigitimate children. Which is making my tree look very sprase the further back I go!

I think if i went for 6 generations id have the 3 English quaters near enough complete, so it wouldnt look quite so bare, but it doesnt seem very far back!

How do you know when to stop??? Lol....

Sparklysam

I guess the answer is as far as we can or as far as we want to. No definite answer on this one I think.

I work on all branches so it's a wide tree. I promised myself I would get all branches back to 1800-1840 ish as a lot of that info I can find online.

I have one major gap as my grandfather (1884) is not registered nor, as far as I can see at the moment, baptised. So that's really annoying.

I also have second cousins marrying which makes one part of the tree look a bit odd.

But, what I try to do to as many of my direct ancestors as possible is to find out about their lives, the areas they were born in and lived in, the work they did etc etc. So I can plod away at one branch with the social history side while I plug away at the gap caused by my grandfather in the meantime.

And at some stage I will take the branches back as far as I can. Some I've already managed to do ... others will either be impossible or take a lot longer.

Jill

I've got up to the fifth generation complete, which takes me back to 1770 ish.
But my grannies were related, so share the same roots, apart from being a generation different. That particular line goes way, way back. Others I've got back to before 1700, you can just be lucky.

the thing is whre do you stop
if you can keep getting info, keep going,
the more you find out the more curious you get , like well i wonder who his/her parents were, what they did, where they lived,

id be happy at mo for great gran to pop up, (not litterally cos that would be gross but you know what i mean)

LOL Julie Ann ...

I'm stuck on a marriage in 1739. Finding that was okey, but cannot find bride's dob, so do not know her age, or her true parentage. Nor can I find what happened to her children after the marriage, although I found the groom had died 1753. Where did all this family go to. Wonder if I will ever find out. Ah well, keep looking
Julia in Derbyshire

Julie Ann, not only gross but spooky Lol!!!

lol
id be more than spooked at than Ann
id be running up the road, lmao

Julia
go for the same age as her hubby, lots of people married same age groups didnt they,
mind you saying that
great grandfather on dads, side married his maid after his wife died i believe
so that blows that out the water

Thanks Julie Ann, I know what you mean. But, bever found out the husband's age either. One day, one day. I hope
Julia in Derbyshire

yeh i keep me fingers and toes crossed for you

i had to guess an age for great gran,
but shes too common, the tart, lol

I go back as far as i can verify the link . Am in the early 1700,s for some of the family but stuck at 1891 on paternal side cos grandfather was German, AND on mums paternal side her grandfather only appears on the 1881 census and dies in 1884 aged 37 NO birth or previous census although know the name of his dad from the 1870 marriage cert.
So for me its find out ANY info and add it to the tree

On my mothers side I am back to 1758 on her maternal side and 1725 on her paternal side, but that is where I come to a hault :((

Kim x

The problem with setting yourself a target is that once you reach that generation, there's always a hint of the next one back...just a name,but then you start wanting to know who they were...then you discover another little titbit...and you're off again LOL.

I tend to put some generations away for a few months, or even a year, then search all over again. You'll be surprised how much new information is put up on the net in that time that can be really useful.