553 ancesters in and I've found my first Ag Lab relation - living in a pub! I feel normal now!
I started doing my father's mother's side of the family. In one of his photo albums there is a beautiful photo of him aged 4 months (1904) sitting on his mother's knee with his grandmother and great grandmother standing by the chair. Very thoughtfully the ladies are named including gt grandmother's maiden name - which is where my father got his name from - Iliffe.
In my innocence I thought that Iliffe would be fairly straightforward name to research - I wasn't counting on the fact that they had taken lessons from rabbits and only had a small repotaire of christain names - John, Joseph, Thomas and Robert being to the fore! Girls are Mary, Ann, Sarah, and Hannah and all live in Leicestershire :( - although my 2xg gdm was Johanna - they were obviously hoping for a boy!
Given the size of the families - 3xg gdf had 7 other brothers - there are potentially hundreds of 'blood' cousins out in the big wide world that I know absolutely nothing about but will hopefully enjoy finding - assuming that I can untangle the different generations with the same name!
I started doing my father's mother's side of the family. In one of his photo albums there is a beautiful photo of him aged 4 months (1904) sitting on his mother's knee with his grandmother and great grandmother standing by the chair. Very thoughtfully the ladies are named including gt grandmother's maiden name - which is where my father got his name from - Iliffe.
In my innocence I thought that Iliffe would be fairly straightforward name to research - I wasn't counting on the fact that they had taken lessons from rabbits and only had a small repotaire of christain names - John, Joseph, Thomas and Robert being to the fore! Girls are Mary, Ann, Sarah, and Hannah and all live in Leicestershire :( - although my 2xg gdm was Johanna - they were obviously hoping for a boy!
Given the size of the families - 3xg gdf had 7 other brothers - there are potentially hundreds of 'blood' cousins out in the big wide world that I know absolutely nothing about but will hopefully enjoy finding - assuming that I can untangle the different generations with the same name!
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