Family tree

Genealogy is the fastest growing hobby in the world ruby. People are beginning to desire more information about their families. It's a most fascinating research once you get involved. I've been doing genealogy research for a very long time. It never gets boring and it never has an end.

My mum has traced our family tree back to 1660. It is interesting finding out about the family and some of the names they have given their children. Some of them name their children with the mum's maiden name. One is actually called Kitchen, Freeman, Newton, Illingworth and Squire. (This are just a few that came to mind!!) I have also found out that somehow Im related to Sharon Jones and she has two children. A girl called Jacqueline born in 1960 and a son called Christopher born 1963 which just happens to be the name of me and my twin brother!! Spooky!!! I also found out that my step-nan has a twin sister.!! Its very intereting tracing the history but can be frustrating aswell!!

I am quite interested in tracing my family tree back, only because I want to see if I am related to any kind of Royalty in anyway. I have been reading this book and it made me realise that there were a lot of children born outside of wedlock within royalty and so the royal bloodline could be anywhere and I would love to see if I got any of it LOL. You can do it on friends reunited but I am not sure how much it costs as I know that it costs to do it through there. I am more interested in finding out the history of my house, but doing that is amazingly hard, I would have thought I could do it in the library but when I asked they said no and did not have a clue where I would start! My house is over 120 years old or more so it has to have a history recorded somewhere!

It reminds me of a cartoon."Trigger" and his family tree and he thought a family tree is a real tree,Because he is the only one in the world.cheers..

I know the internet is a great tool for researching your ancestors,but im more into worrying who I have to put up with now ,rather than worry about who was on the go years ago.I say lets worry about the living and let the past go.

well i am always interested in knowing history of my family and i already have the complete history of 10 generations with me and i am not interested in knowing more than that.

It is very interesting to get to know about one's family tree and the internet is certainly a fast way to go about doing it. I had actually promoted this idea to a group of friends around 4-5 years ago, but somehow never got to go about implementing it.

Hi ruby, I have known our family tree mother side only up to 4th degree and for my father side, I have only known up to 2nd degree...I am contented about it so far and this time, no plan of tracing it.but, that is great when there are sites available to assist people about it!

Tracing the family tree can be very interesting and fruitful work but when my wife wanted to trace their family tree we ran into the problem of what software to use in order to facilitate the effort. There are a number of tools available so that your work will become easier. They do charge money for their software which is something else.

hi ruby222 I have been doing my family genealogy for a numberof years, its fascinating and I have found out a lot of info gongback tomy grgr gr gr grandparents who came from Ireland, England and Scotland to imagrate here in the USA. its has been a lot of fun for me.

I often hear stories about family tree from the elders and family members. That's quite interesting. Just like a puzzle or adventure.So I am curious about it. Our names are inseperabe with the histroy of the family, right? :-)

Always been a little sceptical over the sites that claim to find or rather help you find long lost relatives.For a start do we really want to find them?we are enever going to know them as such,we are just going to find out a little about how thety lived,and what if their lifestyle doent fit snuggly into what we feel comfortable with I ask you?what if one of our ancestors turns out to be a real toe rag?do we shove it under the carpet or do we brave it out.Some of these sites on the internet only charge a token fee for helping to trace our ancestry but there are some that are way above the amount I would feel comfortable paying.