PJ - come to Scotland in 2007!!!!!

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

That's all we need to know

Glad ya got home alright

he corrects it later :rolleyes:

dunkman

V V wrote:

not related but theres mine ! Lol
http://www.houseofnames.org/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=bone

thats pretty cool VV :cool:

you are also a Mother arent you? you're a mother who loves bone

mmmm Mother Love Bone

ScotInAmsterdam

My mum's going mental.... she recently discovered google, and has discovered that the mccreadies are linked to my family name, and the region I'm from....

dunkman

redrock wrote:

related to V's post... and mine (well, Rob's.. can't find my maiden name in that one! Gotta search a similar Italian site!)

http://www.houseofnames.org/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=docker

another one that seems to be linked to 1066... pretty cool... i'm quite interested in all this names business... doing my family tree over the last year and i have got back to 1730 and the lazy fuckers have never strayed more than 20 miles from my home town... which is handy for grave visits and research stuff right enough...

redrock

dunkman1974 wrote:

thats pretty cool VV :cool:

you are also a Mother arent you? you're a mother who loves bone

mmmm Mother Love Bone

Good one Dunk :D:D

dunkman

ScotInAmsterdam wrote:

My mum's going mental.... she recently discovered google, and has discovered that the mccreadies are linked to my family name, and the region I'm from....

my Grampa is a McCreadie... he's from Stranraer, but i think his grandparents came from Ayrshire... (Troon i think.. not sure though)!!!!

redrock

ScotInAmsterdam wrote:

My mum's going mental.... she recently discovered google, and has discovered that the mccreadies are linked to my family name, and the region I'm from....

OMG! Mike's your long lost brother!!!!

redrock

dunkman1974 wrote:

another one that seems to be linked to 1066... pretty cool... i'm quite interested in all this names business... doing my family tree over the last year and i have got back to 1730 and the lazy fuckers have never strayed more than 20 miles from my home town... which is handy for grave visits and research stuff right enough...

On my dad's side (the Italian side!), a cousin spent two years looking into our family. Traced the American Boggiano's way back to the beginning of immigration to the US! Traced the italian side of the family to 1017 (first reference of the name he could find). Got the coat of arms, etc. He did put all of the history together in a book but I don't have a copy (my sister does) and also, it's in Italian!

Heineken Helen

dunkman1974 wrote:

my Grampa is a McCreadie... he's from Stranraer, but i think his grandparents came from Ayrshire... (Troon i think.. not sure though)!!!!

Hmm... aren't everyone in Scotland related? :rolleyes:

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Hmm... aren't everyone in Scotland related? :rolleyes:

you mean 'isn't' :rolleyes:

do your name on the surname thing stinky!!! :cool:

Heineken Helen

http://www.houseofnames.org/xq/asp.c/qx/mchugh-coat-arms.htm

:cool: You were hoping I'd be Scottish or something, weren't ya!!!!!!!!!

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

http://www.houseofnames.org/xq/asp.c/qx/mchugh-coat-arms.htm

:cool: You were hoping I'd be Scottish or something, weren't ya!!!!!!!!!

actually.. i was hoping it would be English

ScotInAmsterdam

Heineken Helen wrote:

Hmm... aren't everyone in Scotland related? :rolleyes:

I have a distant uncle that's a sheep.

V V

Heineken Helen wrote:

Hmm... aren't everyone in Scotland related? :rolleyes:

theres a word for it ummm ... errrrrr ... inbread ??????? LOL opss

hehe I know how cool am I my name on RM was MotherBone ! hehe
i like to feel i'm an original part of the PJ family

ok now for my maidon name :eek:

http://www.houseofnames.org/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=gregory

ooo i like that anglo-saxon and accient !! hehe ok later

and Dunk i'd like to do my family tree could you tell me what how you went about it , i'll be back in an hour thanks xx

Heineken Helen

ScotInAmsterdam wrote:

I hage a distant uncle that's a sheep.

You HAGE????? :eek: Lol, I can only imagine what that means

Dunk :mad:

And my mothers:

http://www.houseofnames.org/xq/asp.c/qx/finn-coat-arms.htm

Told ya I'm as Irish as it gets

Heineken Helen

One of my grandmothers:

http://www.houseofnames.org/xq/asp.c/qx/sheridan-coat-arms.htm

And I actually don't even know the other one

Heineken Helen

Ooooh I remember

http://www.houseofnames.org/xq/asp/s.Clarke/Origin.IR/sId./qx/coatofarms_details.htm

dunkman

V V wrote:

and Dunk i'd like to do my family tree could you tell me what how you went about it , i'll be back in an hour thanks xx

sure thing..

first off, get some paper and draw yourself in a box (or your kids) and then branch off upwards from there... putting your mum and dad into boxes above you on a pedigree chart...

charts look like this http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/


once you have things like your mum and dad in... and grandparents... then you already have 8 names to work on!!! and guessing by averages then your grandparents were probably born in 1900-1920's... thats you got back 100 years already...

after this kind of thing (dates are vitally important... i.e. death, birth and marriage) use the dates you have to access:-

census records (some years are free others are payable)
church records of that parish they were in.

places like http://www.rootsweb.com and http://www.ancestry.co.uk are very handy with some payment required... one of the best ones (and free!!!) is http://www.familysearch.org/ which is run by Church of Latter Day Saints and has America in it and everything... and its free!!!

the census data is brilliant as it normally gives occupation, siblings, their ages, the street they lived in and the house number... :eek:

get as far back as you can using info from living relatives, colect photos, birth certificates, etc... it can get frustrating at times but then it can also be fantastically exciting... my wife did hers for years and discovered her ancestor was the royal physician to Tsar Nicholas I or somehting... pretty cool!!!

Byrnzie

dunkman1974 wrote:

thats pretty cool VV :cool:

you are also a Mother arent you? you're a mother who loves bone

mmmm Mother Love Bone

I like my names motto: I have fought and conquered.


http://www.houseofnames.org/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=byrne

Heineken Helen

Byrnzie wrote:

I like my names motto: I have fought and conquered.


http://www.houseofnames.org/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=byrne

Ha! Kings of Leinster, eh??? Well considering two of my names were kings of Connaught, I'm sure we fought you at some stage