Have you ever tried to trace your family tree?

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My grandad researches the family history, he's done loads of his family tree which is my mums side of my family. He even did a little bit on my dads side. I'd like to continue it on my dads side when I get a bit older. It's very interesting and I love knowing where I come from

I haven't but a cousin is in the process of doing it.

I have done a lot on my dads side, but mum was from ireland and it is hard to get information

We've only gone back to the 1870s. I've got all the old family photographs (mums family) and she's written down as much as she knows or remembers which my daughter has put on a family tree. My dad's done his going back about the same distance but I haven't really gone into his side much as they weren't close to us. My mum did let slip about a family member who had died, 'her husband killed her, you know and he went to prison' but that only came out a little while ago and nobody else had heard that or mentioned it before to us. Perhaps that could stand a little more research, if we ever get around to it. I'm not that overly interested to find out, I'm more interested in the recent past and the relatives I could have known if it hadn't been for the war or other accidental deaths.

I have never really tried it. In my current family history my mum and dad were related to some local villians and so i do not know what i would find if i traced farther back :)