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How Important Is Knowing Your Family History to You?
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Do you take a keen interest in knowing how you came to be?
What your grand parents and great parents were like and what they did?
I know very little about my grand parents as most died before I was born but do take an interest.
What your grand parents and great parents were like and what they did?
I know very little about my grand parents as most died before I was born but do take an interest.
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My great nan died a couple of weeks ago which has got nothing to do with what im talking about but ill write it anyway. Anyway, she was married to a man, he died, she married that mans brother, he died, and she married that mans half-brother... then he died and she didnt remarry, then she died. Strange when u look at it like that. Fucksake I babble.
One day, when I've got the time and the inclination, I may research it. But it really doesn't bother me.
What I don't understand are how some people can get so hung up on where they're from, especially the Welsh and the Scottish. Even when they've never lived there, only because parents or grandparents came from there. What's the deal? I don't get it. It's not important. Interesting perhaps, but important? No.
Mr_Wobble
My mum's side are all upstanding and my gran is really[/] "Look down the nose @ you" whenever I mention my dads side because of what he did to my mum.
My dad was a bit of a gangster person in his younger days and he told me some of the things he did which are very shocking. It just goes to show that there are things that may be unknown and will come as a surprise, because now my dad has settled down and since he is 55 acts his age (a bit).
If I hadnt asked what he did when he was younger, I would never had known
I can't imagine not knowing anything about your grandparents though :eek2:
My aunt has traced our family tree back on my mums side to about the 1300s i think. i owuld never have the patience to do that!
And now that my dad's gone too, i sometimes think, i wonder... and theres hardly anyone i could ask...
My grandmother on mums side I never got to know as she died when I was 2 (she was born in 1910) it was a great shame cos everyone thought she was a lovely person.
My mum's side stems back into the 1300's, not sure about my dad's side, probably as early as when the french settled in ireland as our surname is part french and irish. (comerford.)
My dad's side are of course all irish (they're from kilkenny) met most of my irish uncles and they're alright, although some of the things I've heard they've done in the past I don't think I could ever be the same with them, especially with some of them being priests.
Grandparent wise on my dad's side I wasn't old enough to see them.