Forum: Introduce Yourself

Hi there I am an enthusiastic researcher currently researching my family in Sheffield, Woollen & Johnson mostly, and helping out my friend trace his family in Essex. Doubt I will be able to help anybody particularly but I'm hoping I can pick all of your expert brains about brickwalls and troubles!

My Fathers Mothers side of the Family first went to India in c1821 and I have been able to trace them back to England to my Father, although I have not been able to go back any further then 1804 which is the birth of my dads x4 gt grandfather Richard Farrow 1807 Born in Lincoln. My Dads Father...

Hi, I am Ken Ellison and have been researching my family history for nearly 40 years. Living abroad most of the time - in France the last 20 years - has made this difficult, and resulted in many a home leave spending all my time in GRO's and in London. Doubly difficult as my father came from...

Hello to the BG community, I started researching my family tree in 1985, but only in the last 18 months have I started to get my teeth into it, this is due to the fact I retired. I thoroughly enjoy doing research, I have found lovely cousins in Wales, made friends with some generous people, hope...

my name is anna, i live in lincolnshire, and have been trying to make my family tree for nearly a year now, and am hopeing to go as far back as possible, i enjoy researching my family history and it has become a hobby of mine.

Hello, I am David Hassell from South Australia and I am really impressed so far with the apparent warm welcome, responsiveness and friendliness of this site, and its ease of use. I have been tracing family history for nearly 20 years and with an aim of discovering ancestors and pushing back the...

hello, I have been researching my ancestors for a couple of years. I ran into a roadblock for my paternal great grandmother. My father told me she was born on a ship in the English channel returning from Malta with her mother Nora Harper or harpur, and her sister sarah sometime between 1869- 1870....

G'day everyone. I started to learn about my family in 1976. Like everyone in NZ, we came from somewhere else. Ashley from Lincolnshire 1870's. Tylee from Bath 1840's. Sorensen from Denmark 1870's. King from Kincardineshire 1910's. Brown from Kincardineshire same time. I have a good...

Hello everyone, Im a danish guy that has taken interest in my familys history, and for some time now have been researching into my british ancestors, especially my second great grandfather, that came to Denmark in around the year 1852, together with his family, and participated in the...

Hello everyone I am tracing my family from Basingstoke, Hampshire (not really from here but its where I was born in 1967), to London, to Norfolk and, I doubt it will ever happen, beyond. I found the site by googling an ancestor's name and was surprised and delighted to see it as part of a...

Hi, I'm Stuart and have been researching for about 27 years obviously starting without the benefit of the internet. Now extending my research to quite a few lines on my genetic ancestry and have recently started on my wifes, so really a glutton for punishment but not really very experienced. Had...

My name is Liz, and I started helping my parents last year tracing the Boden/Bowden and Fitzpatrick, have found some information out, but still missing a lot. I am looking forward to using this site.

I belonged a long time ago with webtv.. Later I could not access this site. I have a computer now so I am back. I missed this site. I am still trying to find ancestors, having some luck. I enjoy genealogy. I am older so hope to find them soon:yes: I am sure I will make some headway. Looking forward...

I started researching my family history this Christmas just gone. I am researching, Bray, Pashley, Price, Watson, Hamilton as a starter.

I have been researching my family history for a couple of years now and with my main 4 lines (Thurman, Sands, Langford and Pickering)I have pretty much done all I can using the obvious and readily available sources. I am hoping that forums on this site may give me some new pointers to getting...