Apart from one small hiccup of one of my husband's ancestors being born in Liverpool (why we don't know) all his 4x great grandparents were Yorkshire men and women. Lin On 09/06/2012 09:15, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > From: Kim Groothuis<kimsfamilyhistory@yahoo.co.uk> > >> Thanks for starting this thread, Roy, lots of food for thought. >> >> I have 15 out of 16 great-great-grandparents born and lived in >> Yorkshire. They converged in Dewsbury, although on my paternal >> grandmother's side they originated in the Selby area and on >> my maternal great-grandfather's side they came from Dalton and >> Kirkheaton, now part of Huddersfield.> > That is pretty good, Kim! > > I have only ever come across one person with all 16 great-great-grandparents born in > Yorkshire and that was a well-known cartoonist called Mike Atkinson who does cartoons for > national newspapers and greetings cards. > > I did him as a celebrity family tree for the former Practical Family History magazine in 2006 > and discovered that all his gt-gt-grandparents came from one very small area within a circle > no more than about 15 miles in diameter, centred on Sherburn in Elmet and taking in > Tadcaster, Pontefract and Selby. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer& lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy& Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >