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"Contentment is where true happiness lies"
Welcome to familypast.co.uk Here I have put together a mixture of what I know about my family.I have been researching my family for the past four years and in this time I have found a lot about my ancestors and where they came from. I started researching my family when my grandad Ernest William Hollis died in 2003 and he left many photos and memories behind with names and dates, ever since genealogy has become my biggest past time.
History in general has always been an interest of mine and since belonging to waltham Abbey Genealogy Club I have combinded both genealogy and history.
I'm Sure if we go back far enough in time we will eventually find that we are all related. History is so much more than a name and a date and there is so much of history begining with ourselves. One thing in researching my own family has gave me is more of understanding of who I am and where I came from, because somewhere buried inside us we carry our ancestors and well afterall without them we would not exist. So if anyone out there who wants to research their family tree i can tell you one thing, it's addictive and every name you come across you ask yourself what were they like and how can I find out about them? This website covers all from genealogy, old movie stars, old traditional recipes, old photos , surname origins, old trades and occupations and much, much more ....
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Helpful Genealogy PagesSearching for your ancestors is no dout enjoyable and addictive. But the more information you gather the harder it is to store and keep in a methodically. Well below i have put together some sheets and links that will help you with your research.
The interest in family history is becoming far more popular all over the world, especially with the internet it has opened up a huge gate for everyone across the world to trace back their ancestors and find out where they came from. With family history i believe it is not only a hobby that lasts a month or so, but a lifetime interest. There is always something or someone new to trace and find out about in your family that can give you so much to how life was back then and why events occured. The best advice that i could give someone who is new to tracing their ancestors is to talk and record as much information and photographs from your living ancestors. They are your key to to what has happened and although they might not be able to remember everything, their memories will hold clues and pieces that you can piece together. Whatever you do don't give up if you have hit a brick wall, the answers are out there some where believe me there are records around and people out there that have information. The tricky part is finding them! |
"There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" ~Albert Einstein |
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It
is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers
and sons. ~Johann Schiller |
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some families, please is described as the magic word. In our
house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret
Laurence |
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We
all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors
dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling
chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott |
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior
of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of
that family may be. ~Jane Austen |
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"The bond that links your true family
is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." ~Richard Bach |
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