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  • 41 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 KateHurst

    Member since 21/05/2008

    Reviews written: 346

    5 Stars Shoemakers, chicken stealers, farmhands and gamekeepers? 28/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages reveals the story behind your family, there's always something unusual to know

    Disadvantages Disadvantages it's a seriously addictive hobby, requires time or money or both!

    I have a problem that might be verging on the point of becoming an addiction - I spend quite a lot of time learning about dead people! But not just any dead people - this lot are my ancestors, so I hope that gives me some kind of excuse. My head, my notebooks and two separate lever arch files are now full to bursting point with notes, census details, certificates for births, marriages and deaths, little plastic hole-punched pockets containing delicate original items like my grandma's birth certificate and things that can't be hole-punched like photographs of gravestones, I have trawled some ... more
  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Newfloridian

    Member since 13/11/2002

    Reviews written: 328

    5 Stars IF CIAO IS CAFFEINE, THIS IS MY CRACK COCAINE. 28/12/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Addictive, you'll never know who you might meet, where you might travel

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Like any passion can be costly in time and money

    There are few of us these days who do not have at least a sneaking curiosity in discovering who we are and where we came from. This interest has been heightened by the exploits and experiences of celebrities in tracing their own family histories in such programmes as BBC Television's "Who do you think you are?". Who knows for certain that there is not a prince or a knight lurking in the distant past? Or deeds of bravery or scandals long forgotten? Or accomplishments in fields unsuspected, acts of kindness gone unrewarded or barbaric punishments meted out for criminal behaviour? What was going ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    phoenixgreen

    5 Stars THE SECRETS OF THE LONG AGO FOLK 16/01/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages THE FEELING OF BELONGING TO SOMETHING IS LIKE NOTHING ELSE

    Disadvantages Disadvantages IT'S HARD WORK AND YOU OFTEN UNCOVER THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT EXPECT.

    Family History Searching out The Secrets of The Long Ago Folk All the years I was growing up, my aunties and uncles on my dad's side would comment on how much I looked like their mother. I remember being stopped in the street when I was 11 by an old woman who said, rather mysteriously, that I must be one of Isobella's. I was at the age of being desperately shy and embarrassed at being stopped by old ladies in front of my sisters and cousins, and I think I giggled and walked away. As the years when past, I wished I had listened to the woman, and found out what she knew about my grandmother. You ... more
  • 68 of 68 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Louise90

    5 Stars History is a load of old cobblers, is it?! Review with images 19/02/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great fun. You never know what you will find!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The cost!

    So, you want to research your family history, do you? But, it's a big world out there, and where the hell do you begin? It's not going to be easy, it can be expensive, what websites do you visit? I'll give up now! No! Don't do that! Read on my friends, and hopefully I'll be able to tempt you into tracing your ancestors! There's a difference between 'genealogy' and 'family history'. Genealogy is when you want to do a specific time-line for your ancestors and do a tree. Family history is when you want to do a particular search on a member/s of your family and find out more about their lives ... more
  • 41 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Wisegirl

    5 Stars Do you know where you come from? 21/02/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Absorbing and addictive

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Might not always like what you find

    Do you really know where you come from? You may think you do, but once you start delving into your family history I can assure you there will be surprises, some good, some bad and some just downright sad. Just think about that before you embark on the journey back in time and be prepared! It can be a roller coaster ride full of ups and downs and frustrations but at the same time addictive and time consuming. Would I recommend it YES and you've guessed it I'm hooked! Basic Guide to getting started Interview living relatives especially the much older ones whilst they are still with us as they ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Dinosaur66

    5 Stars Family History: How we started 17/04/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A great hobby and information for future generations

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can be time consuming

    People can become interested in the history of their families for many different reasons. Our interest started in a mild way on a very enjoyable caravan holiday in Perth, Scotland. Anyone who has holidayed in Scotland will know that the place is buzzing with people from all over the world trying to trace their Scottish roots. The gift and souvenir shops all cater for this and there is an endless supply of charts and maps Etc. Showing the history of the clans, Scottish names and the various associated tartans along with all types of souvenirs with the family name or coat of arms on them. We ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    carolburns

    5 Stars WHERE ARE YOU ALL? 18/06/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great fun finding everyone

    Disadvantages Disadvantages need plenty of time and a fair bit of money

    I started doing the Family Tree about 8 years ago as something to do for hubby Pete. He is the fourth of six children. His mother had died when he was 10 and his Dad had died when he was 4 so the only relatives he knew were his three brothers and two sisters and thier children. I don't come from a very big family and my dad had started ours. I didn't want to step on any toes so decided to do Pete's So where did I start? Well at first I kept all the details on paper in separate folders for each section of the family. I got all the details of his brothers and sisters from them and worked ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 MAllen400

    Member since 22/10/2002

    Reviews written: 116

    5 Stars Researching? its not as hard as you think 08/05/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages very interesting and you get a buzz when you find the ancestor you are looking for

    Disadvantages Disadvantages time consuming

    For a number of years we have thought about tracing our family tree and havent done much about it. With another generation arriving in the family we decided that now was the time to do it. I would like to tell you how we did it and some of the "mistakes" we made just incase you are thinking of doing your family tree. We decided to do the male side of my Husbands family. So although I have a 97 year old Mum in Law she didn't have all the details so we basically started from scratch. The first thing to know is that the census' run from 1841 to 1911 although 1911 is not quite complete. These ... more
  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    nona1661

    5 Stars Tracing your ancestors. 11/03/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages very interesting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can be costly

    Growing up i had always hear lots of stories about various members of my family. Most of whom were about people who died before i was born. As i got old i wanted to know more things like when and where they were born, who they married how many children they had. However the only people who knew that , had sadly pasted away many years ago. Not knowing how to get the information i wanted i put the idea to one side. Then in 2002 after moving to a new area. I decide that i had to do something to get me out of the house. I found out that the local high school does adult evening classes. So i looked ... more
  • 41 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mrs_dodger

    4 Stars Genealogy....what? 04/11/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages none

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    I became interested in genealogy a few years ago in my teens when I decided I wanted to start my family tree. I come from a big family, my mum being one of five and my dad one of nine, so I have lots of relations. However, I have to admit there are some that I hardly know as my Dad comes from a little country called Mauritius, so half my relations are spread throughout the world as they have emigrated from there to Canada and France. This made tracking down my family tree somewhat difficult. For my mum's side of the family, I gathered what information I could from my grandma, which was quite a ... more
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