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[Just Say No To Vorderman]

If any of you want any of your family looking up on census's and what have you...I forked out £85 the other week subscribing to ancestry.co.uk for 12 months and am fairly determined to get my money's worth so will be happy to do searches for you..I have access to UK census's going back 1841 to 1901, WW1 Medal and medical records and some other stuff.
I've traced one of my lines back to 1700 so far..the rest seem to end with "Born in Ireland" which will be a bit trickier :-(
Two possible "famous" connections...The Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley from Clare Island and....Jeremy Clarkson through his Kilner family :-)..also found out my grandfather was in the Theatre Party in the Dardanelles after he caught Malaria...bet it wasn't half hot out there

[Donnchadh Ghairdinéir]

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Was your grandad Mr La-di-da Gunner Vorderman?

[Guest]

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All my grandparents are Irish.

So there is no point as the IRA burnt down the public records office. Cunts.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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So you can look up any old family you like, right?

So what info do you need?

[G-Man]

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Does that subscription allow you do German searches, Vorderman?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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I'll take advantage of this, if it's going - I know my direct patrilineal family back to 1830-odd (got photocopies of birth certificates, the lot) but don't know too much about my Mum's side of the family, especially her Mum, going back. I've got a horrible suspicion they might have been Welsh , which is why no-one mentions it.

What do you need to get started, a PM or something with my e-mail address?

[Just Say No To Vorderman]

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no..I don't have access to German records

pm me as much info as you have ..names, maiden names, place of birth or residence, date of birth, date of death, date of marriage
in the case of WW1 any info re regiment is useful.
some name's are surprisingly common so the more info you have the better

it would be handy if you include in your pm your otf name,real name and email address to help avoid confusion.
If i find records i can download stuff like WW1 records and Census's which i can then email to you. with the birth certificates all i can get is the basics and the reference you need to buy a copy from the govt

[evilC]

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PM for you, Vorderman.

[Just Say No To Vorderman]

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evilC wrote:

PM for you, Vorderman.

email for you

and pm for Pishtico

no luck with either of them so far

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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Villain wrote:

All my grandparents are Irish.

So there is no point as the IRA burnt down the public records office. Cunts.

Surely their census records still exist. They occupied the four courts and the records were destroyed in the ensuing battle I think would be a more accurate description of I would say.

You'll probably never know if they were informers though. There was a great enthusiasm in destroying those records.

[The Purple Cow]

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I'm a direct descendent of Capability Brown. Which is weird because I fucking hate gardening.

Great name though - Capability. I should have been Christened 'Just barely competent on one of his better days'.

[Mumpo]

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I come from a long line of Bedfordshire farm labourers. Some pedigree, eh.

[thom]

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My dad's been looking into the family history for several years now. He has over 1,000 people in the database, and in places it goes back 400 years or so. He goes up to the British Library about once a month to get documents, and has many files of photocopies back home. He loves it - getting hold of the details and deducing the biographical tale. Apparently I have some ancestors from half a dozen generations back who were full-on imperialists, running large sections of the British East India Company, and in a couple of cases living in pretty damn big aristocratic residences.

That's the exception though. Most of them are labourers, butchers, etc. in Croydon or Wycombe.

[steveeeeeeeee]

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PM coming to you Vorderman.

[Lucia Lanigan]

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Second biggest thing on the web after filth, family history, someone was telling me. Which suggests that the two questions foremost in the human mind are "Who am I?" and "Can I watch someone come on your tits?"

[Just Say No To Vorderman]

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steveeeeeeeee wrote:

PM coming to you Vorderman.

emailed you back