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very interesting ,not had personal experience,but a fellow researcher has,and has been very upset. some families did have alot of secrets and lies, and crime too, I have beenwarmed anddelighted with some loving kndnesses which showed up in my family, in a time when people were so straitlaced!

My ggrandparents , how even tho they where married and buried together why can't I find a marriage certificate .
I am at best a learner of searching family history and when I put a thread up no answer , but on the other hand I applause and thank the people that have helped me ,

Nothing except for that one thing really gets up my nose really I'm still a beginner and I will learn along the way .

I agree with Mark that really annoys me,it happened to me yesterday again.

Fathers that name their sons after them and then their sons do the same.

My maternal grandparents moved into our house to look after us four children when my father died aged 42. My mother had to go out to work to keep us all. I was four years old and my grandma and I would sit round the coal fire making toast on a toasting fork and she would tell me endless tales of her life and the early years of my mother and her brother.

Oranges were 10 a penny, she tied my mums hair up in rags at night to make it curly, stories of when they lived in Manchester (something that I still can't find proof of) Tales about the rag and bone man coming round each week and the about her wedding to my grand dad.

All these stories and memories I cherish but if only I had known then that one day I would have been tracing my family tree I could have found out a lot more useful information. Some names that she had mentioned have helped me along the way but I wish she had told me more.

Wendy