Love your post Lynn! It's a great start to a day with dreary weather predicitons here in West Chester, Pennsylvania!! Regards, Mary McCanney Finley whose Lancashire connections are: PILLING, KENT, LIGHTFOOT (love that one...it sounds Native American) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Elves via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 6:27 AM Subject: [LAN] FTM and Sites > How great has the info and chit chat been? > > Thanks re the info, but some will know I have been around for a long long > time. I was online when the 1881 Census was released by LDS, not that I > have been around for that long (LOL). I have had 40 years of working on my > tree and I have to say my STACKHOUSE tree stops at Richard (1) as far > back......1783, no further advanced. > > What I found from this site, it is not that there was a connection of my > tree, but friendships. I was lucky, someone called Bibby, contacted me, > similar tree, and advised he knew who my branch was connected to, alas she > was deaf, had no phone and I had to wait for snail mail. That was > agonizing. We are so used to the now and instant contact that we forget, > some only contact via post. From UK to Australia was exasperating. > > However, in 2000, I took an envelope that had been sent from England, with > me and I travelled to UK. I called in on the two elderly couple.....Held > the envelope out to show it was theirs and mine and we took off to > Lancashire and Cheshire from Wiltshire, two elder folk and myself, a > stranger virtually off to look at cemeteries, exchange certificates etc. I > was glad I did. She was more into the Stackhouse name and had > certificates, but I was able to give her additional info she had wrong and > didn't know. We based it on certificates, original source material, but as > I said even that can be wrong. > > I have posted part of my story before, MEN posted my story about lost > ashes, I took back with me, ran the story and then I scattered them. There > was a photo in the paper, and the two elderly folk, laughed their heads > off. We had a great time. > > What I didn't know and what Mr Stackhouse did not tell me, was that they > had a niece in Cheshire, and his sister also a Stackhouse he visited while > I did the grave hunting in Manchester Southern Cemetery and Reddish and a > sort of posh-ish one, well kept = not far away. I could have met his > sister but they just didn't do that....where is the Lancashire > hospitality? LOL I have names like Willow Grove and others, but mostly my > graves were not found, none to be seen..... > > That neice was on a site, who responded to me searching the name, and > trying for the Puritan/Boston connection, only to be told by one chap, our > trees were not his. A bit snooty after all, its Pensylvania, Boston or > where ever, well hey buddy, I thought, they came from England!!! The only > unpleasant connection I had was his. > > As a result the two of us, Mary and I got sharing the tree, when she > mentioned where her line met mine, low and behold this was the neice, and > we had never known each other, but the common link was the elderly couple, > who died not long after I met them. So glad I made that trip!! > > Mary and hubby came to OZ on a tour and met me and I drove them around, we > had a good time. I went to UK in 2013 again and they drove me around. Then > I met others and so on. So my tree has expanded and I feel like I have > know her all my life. > > So you see these lists are not just information, they are connections, > friends, relatives and some good common interests. While I would like > things to be correct, I get it wrong too. Its not a big deal, we learn, we > adapt, we grow. > > My tree is on Ancestry, I have sync'd it with FTM. I have several FTM, the > last was 2012. I have several trees and my relatives have access so they > can add their line. I have my FTM on my comp which is mine too. > > SO, my relatives add to the tree, I can over ride it if I want. But as far > as trees go mine does get complicated at times (don't they all) my OZ (not > UK) cousin, is more than one cousin....her grandmother and my great > grandmother were sisters, my grandmother and her mother were half sisters > and their husbands were cousins......now lets see who can unravel my tree > LOL. So when she searches Carleton, she says its not your line and I say, > yep it is, one is my great gran, one my great great aunt.....do you > consider step families? well she's that too! Just don't count anything > out, that's all I am saying. > > Ancestry is a bit like a spiders web.....you get caught in it, you get > tangled and it engulfs you..... > > have a good one! > > Lynn Cheshire Cat in Oz > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >