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[John]

Has anyone ever researched there family history, and seen how far back they can go? I tried it once and found a Thomas Smith in the 1500's but wasnt sure how reliable it was. What jobs did they do?

[Serin]

I managed to go right back to 1086 and discovered a Serin Serinus. He was in the Domesday Book and his occupation was as a bum boy to the English army.

[Ema]

My Dad does alot of Family History..we've got family all over the world..

-Harrogate(theres only 2 generations here..us and my grandad)

-Sheffield

-Norfolk

-Australia

-Highland falls(a place outside NYC where we have been to visit them)

-and California

They were Mostly Craftsman and went to Ellis Island(We went there and got the records)

[Andy B]

My mum's done ours but makes sure she only gets accurate records so it's really difficult if you come from a long line of nobody's who never did anything. Have got a birth certificate for a Great x 237 uncle or something from about 1740ish and has his fathers name on there but she's not been doing it too seriously lately.

My current Family tree is far more complicated..it's perfectly possible for someone in my extended family to talk about their sister's brother's sister's brother's sister and it has to be said in that order. My family's weird.

[Lucinda]

I think it would be difficult. Well my dad's dad's family come from the same village in Wiltshire for generations. But after that it gets complicated.... my dad's mum came from southern Ireland as a Catholic and moved to Oxford and became a Protestant. My mum's dad was born in Austria as a Jew so had to leave when the 2nd World War broke out and emigrated to New Zealand where he met my mum's mum, who was originally half Irish half English then went to New Zealand. Then after university my mum came over here for a few years and met my dad, then they went back to New Zealand and worked there for a few years, but my dad almost got deported so they got married there. Then they eventually came back here to London where my sister and I were born and the rest I would prefer not to think of as history. So yeah, I have relatives all over the place. Lots around the Milton Keynes kind of region, others in various random places. And my mum's brother lives in Wellington, New Zealand, and I have 2 cousins there as well. My mum is fiercely proud of her New Zealand heritage despite both her parents being immigrants to there, and the fact that she's married to and Englishman and lives over here.

So there we are: after all that, I'm a bit Austrian (apparently that's where my hair colour came from, I'm really not sure), a couple of bits Irish, perhaps a bit New Zealander (dual nationality, anyway) and the rest English. I see myself as English.

Sorry if that was more than you were wanting to know, but I'm very bored tonight...

[Mafro]

Don't know much about my mums history, but my dad is off of Jamaica and most of his relatives still live there and were slaves on sugar plantations and all that a couple of centuries ago.

[Jono]

I don't like family history. You realise what idiots you're related to at school/college/work

[callum]

i am mostly norfolk but i am 1/8 welsh and 1/16 scottish and 1/16 irish and a little bit Yorkshire too, but basically i am a norfolk boy

[TheCaptain]

Every generation further you go you have to double the amount of people to do it properly. You can't just pick and choose to go with a Mother's of Father's side after a generation or two. Once it reaches 150 years or so it becomes totally pointless as there are too many people involved.

[Kelly]

I tried it once. Turns out we come from a long line of nobodys. Although I did find out I have a Great Great Great Great Great Uncle Bethlehem on my Mum's side. That's the most interesting part really.

[callum]

i am related to stanley matthews the football legend and some guy who tried to assasinate winston churchill