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Other than that, ancestry - as above
On a personal level, it seems I might be one if the Welshest people ever, with all of my ancestors (bar one from mid Wales, very weirdly from the town I went to high school) being from south west wales, all welsh speaking farmers, labourers or coal miners. I have yet to to find any connection to royalty or any black sheep! One branch goes back as far as 1620 in Cardigan.
My father's surname is much more unusual and therefore perhaps more traceable!
It was my then great great grandfather who became a coachman travelling between stately homes around London. His son became a saddle maker, and my grandfather a tool maker. My dad started off as a toolmaker, became a profession musician, a publican and a politician, with myself an IT professional. So interesting to see when social mobility happens. Also sad to see records of distant family dieing in war or at a really young age.
Also traced my wife's family. Funny enough my father in law is the spitting image of Owsom Wells, I even managed to find a family tree linked to a Wells family, who live in the next village along from where H.G. Wells came from.
I have since googled this person with the surname of Picton. According to https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John- Picton/6000000022893170509 this can take me all the way back to a Sir living in a castle in 1240. This info seems a bit less reliable but who knows. He might have been of Norman or Flemish descent, but no one is sure. There is even a website by an American dedicated to researching the Picton family. Mindblowing. So much discovered over the course of a week. An addictive new hobby this is.
learned loads of really useful stuff such as family members who who were born in the Mile End workhouse in east London.
was really good fun
what I really would like is to be able to download my ancestry family tree so I don’t have to pay them £13 a month or whatever it is
how do people download / store / save their trees?
Anyone else want to share?