General Chat

How much did you or your family know about your ancestors? ie what knowledge had been passed down? Also did you find it accurate when you started your research?

Some accurate and some way out, not to mention blatant cover ups
of certain truths,,,,never mind I slowly unravel it all.

Ray

My grandmother's stories were more or less accurate.

She said her sister died at birth (true)
Her mother died of 'milk fever' (true but that's an old fashioned term)
Her father died of a broken heart two weeks later (nearly true, he died 9 days later of Typhoid).

I knew nothing of my Dad's ancestry; his was the most colourful; perhaps that's why they didn't pass on the stories!

Hi

My dad was born quite late to my nan who sadly I never knew. Anyway I can remember my nans sisters who were born from 1899-1904.
dad used to tell me stories about when he used to stay with them as a child.
One day he produced a piece of paper with the dates of his aunties and uncles birth,along with the marriage of his Grandfather in 1884.
All the dates were right.
My nan on my mums side who is sadly very ill showed me on the last time i saw her(when she was well enough)a picture of her with her nan.
She was a wealth of knowledge which surprised me as there are shall we say a couple of NK dads and a very nasty incident which befell the family.
My great gran is still alive at 94 and although I have not seen her for a while she to has started to open up a bit.

DL