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EddyTheDog · 01-01-2014, 04:14 PM

I have just started and found out my mother has a half sister she didn't know about...

What else will I dig up - My family are all a bit odd so it could be anything.....

Can anyone recommend any good software?..

Rochard · 01-01-2014, 04:42 PM

My father died when I was a baby; I was never close to his side of the family. When I was twenty-five I got a call from my grand mother (my father's mother), and she told me my sister was trying to reach me. The only problem is... I didn't have a sister.

Turns out I did. Before I was born, my father was married and had a daughter. About the same time, he had son with another woman. So I had a brother and a sister I never knew I had - and lots questions about why all of this was hidden from the three of us.

Have you tried ancestry.com?

EddyTheDog · 01-01-2014, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

My father died when I was a baby; I was never close to his side of the family. When I was twenty-five I got a call from my grand mother (my father's mother), and she told me my sister was trying to reach me. The only problem is... I didn't have a sister.

Turns out I did. Before I was born, my father was married and had a daughter. About the same time, he had son with another woman. So I had a brother and a sister I never knew I had - and lots questions about why all of this was hidden from the three of us.

Have you tried ancestry.com?

I have been really lucky - The first site I found was this http://www.blackmanfamily.org/

He has been researching the name for over a decade and has put it all online - What a stroke of luck...

SilentKnight · 01-01-2014, 05:56 PM

My father's been working on the family tree for years - on MyHeritage.com.

He's traced my mother's side back to the 1400s...and his own side to the early 1700s.

The only eye-opening discovery was learning Thomas Alva Edison is a distant relation on his side of the family.

I definitely inherited the Edison genes - I can flip a lightswitch on and illuminate a room.

EddyTheDog · 01-01-2014, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

My father's been working on the family tree for years - on MyHeritage.com.

He's traced my mother's side back to the 1400s...and his own side to the early 1700s.

The only eye-opening discovery was learning Thomas Alva Edison is a distant relation on his side of the family.

I definitely inherited the Edison genes - I can flip a lightswitch on and illuminate a room.

Wow - 1400's - That's impressive...

The only thing I am not sure of is that there seem to be a lot of assumptions made - If just one is wrong you could be led totally the wrong way.....

dyna mo · 01-01-2014, 06:16 PM

according to a big family tree website, i am one of a very fortunate few who are direct descendants of julius caesar

Grapesoda · 01-01-2014, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

according to a big family tree website, i am one of a very fortunate few who are direct descendants of julius caesar

myself, like everyone else on the planet am related Attila the Hun

PornoStar69 · 01-01-2014, 07:52 PM

somewhere along the lines i'm related to Princess Diana................. pretty fucking epic i think you agree.

dyna mo · 01-01-2014, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by PornoStar69

somewhere along the lines i'm related to Princess Diana................. pretty fucking epic i think you agree.

matching purses does not count here.

bronco67 · 01-01-2014, 08:02 PM

That's what people from West Virginia do.

01-01-2014, 04:14 PM	#1
EddyTheDog Just Doing My Own Thing Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: London, Spain, New Zealand, GFY - Not Croydon... Posts: 25,098	Anyone Done Their Family Tree?.. I have just started and found out my mother has a half sister she didn't know about... What else will I dig up - My family are all a bit odd so it could be anything..... Can anyone recommend any good software?..

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Rochard Jägermeister Test Pilot Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NORCAL Posts: 73,944	My father died when I was a baby; I was never close to his side of the family. When I was twenty-five I got a call from my grand mother (my father's mother), and she told me my sister was trying to reach me. The only problem is... I didn't have a sister. Turns out I did. Before I was born, my father was married and had a daughter. About the same time, he had son with another woman. So I had a brother and a sister I never knew I had - and lots questions about why all of this was hidden from the three of us. Have you tried ancestry.com? __________________ “The choice is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy.” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders YNOT MAIL \| THE BEST ADULT MAILING SOLUTION

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SilentKnight Megan Fox's fluffer Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: shooting pool in Elysium Posts: 24,818	My father's been working on the family tree for years - on MyHeritage.com. He's traced my mother's side back to the 1400s...and his own side to the early 1700s. The only eye-opening discovery was learning Thomas Alva Edison is a distant relation on his side of the family. I definitely inherited the Edison genes - I can flip a lightswitch on and illuminate a room.

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dyna mo The People's Post Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: invisible 7-11 Posts: 65,293	according to a big family tree website, i am one of a very fortunate few who are direct descendants of julius caesar