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The Distant Cousins thing is very interesting subject. We have just been told that Madonna is related to Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall. And that Camilla is also related to Celine Dion.

I have now found a distant cousin in South Africa who is related to my Scottish side of my family tree.

Just to let you know I am working on a possible connection to Prince Charles so if I could prove that then I would be a distant cousin to Camilla, Madonna and Celine Dion. Now what a strange family tree that would be.

Thank havens for Genes Reunited. I have been back online with them for about 3 days and in the first 24 hours I found 2 new distant cousins.

Genes Reunited is the best UK family history website online today and so easy to use. I can spend an hour or so searching and find lots of new connections.

If anyone wants to see my research over the last 17 years I have a website via Yahoo and Google “Housefamilytree” no.1 website in the UK for the surname House.

Hi all,

Been at my new job a few months now and a woman I got talking to outside while I was on my lunch break - we ended up talking family history.

It seems she may have a connection to the Boyle family - the Earls of Cork. Who in turn are connected to the Whitelocke family that I am researching with regards to the vicar in the church next door to the pub I am working in at the moment. She has been visiting the pub for the last 18 years and by chance she mentions after I say that I have a connection to an Irish castle in Sourthern Ireland she said so does her family. I asked which family and she said “Boyle” I said that they where the Earls of Cork and she agreed with me. She said she would have to check it out with her aunty about the connection in her family but she was sure she had something to do with them.

Stranger things have haapened. Now I only have to wait a while for her to get back in touch with me.

I was looking at Bowood House website last night and found another connection to the family who owned the house there via a marriage in the family to the 1st Earls of Ossery who became the Earls of Cork. Having lived in Gloucestershire for 6 years and never visited the place - now I have a reason too.

I would like to hear from anyone else researching these families. Although a copy of a marriage certificate to prove my connection to these great families would be helpful in the first place if only I could find it! Between 1909 and 1940. Anyone else with connections to Strancally Castle, Waterford?  

Hi all,

I know I should of written more here but life gets a bit hectic and things get in the way.

Well to update I found a new distant cousin over the weekend. Ok it wan not my tree but my partners. Who no one is really intrested in - well not in present day family. But to say that I have now been in touch with 38 people all researching one part or another part of the same family tree. So at least someone is interested.

Well I was seaching via Genes Reunited and decided to send a woman and email via the website and she replied to me and aked a few questions. The puzzle seemed simple but it took 3 days to work out which generation she connected too. But then we found out that her father went to school with my partners father. He was a bit shocked to find out that his friend at school was a cousin of his about 3 times removed.

Another distant cousin was also working on this and she sent me an email saying that she had worked it out too but I got there first.

When you have some many people with the same first name and same surname it is best to check their dates of birth so you can link them to the right generation.

Also I have just started a new job and I work now in a pub and next door is a church. I have just been researching part of my Irish side of my family tree and IF I can prove a connection then one of my ancestors back in the end of 1500’s was a vicar at the church for 7 years. He was so fed up after he buried 21 of his flock in the 3 months before the end of the year he went out and bought a new diary for the next year but unfortunatly he died only a few weeks into the new year and so his death was entered into the new diary at the age of 30.

So the moral of the story - keep doing family history every day because one day you won’t be around to be able to do it. And make sure you write it all out. Ready for the next generation to take over.

Happy Hunting……………….. 

Hi all,

This week I have found two new distant cousins via GenesReunited website. I have just reconnected as a member for 6 months and every time I logon I’m like a little ferrett, going around to seeing who is researching and crossing people of my list. Finding out if and who they link too. This is part of the fun of family history. You just have to remember to send the right info to the right person.

I’ve been offline with GenesReuntied for a couple of years so a 6 months subscription is going to get well used. It the best family tree website I have found that is very user friendly and easy to us.

I find more distant cousins with GR than with any other website.

This blog page is to help show people that family history can be fun and that when you get addicted you really do can not put it down. When I first started and before the daily use of a PC that we used to do the research almost on a season by season timetable. Or you would go as far as you could with one branch until you come to a stop then you put it away for a few weeks until you had another idea of where to look next. Or you would get contact via snail mail of someone else is looking at your family tree and wanting your help.

This days family history goes at a hyper speed. Someday you can just afford to put it down for a day or two, a couple of years ago that time period would of been a couple of months. But now with emails and message boards you get more instant results and replies. Your family tree grows much faster - it’s hard to keep up sometimes.

For example I had not been to a family history website for a few years since 2002 in fact and just a couple of days ago the same person who had left me a message in 2002 I found again this week and they were glad finally I had massage to track them down again. This is just to my email had changed in 2002, so I did not get the email notification that someone had left me a reply.

It’s best to try and keep a record of all your website visits - but who does this?

We save all the websites under the sun into our favourites and we keep changing and updating our computers.

Anyway - I have said again that I will pass on certain info on to people - so I better get on a do it.

Hi and welcome to my new project, my own blog.

What I’m going to do here is not yet set in stone. Just wanting to say hello to all “House” family researchers.

I started back when I was 16 and just left school. My grandmother had wrote down part of her family tree. So we looked at it and saw the name “Charles House born Brockenhurst”. That made us go and look for him and we found him born in 1875. We checked the 1881 census and he is there with his parents and siblings.

This took us then to search the whole of the 1881 census for Brockenhurst and found all the other House families. This we then moved on to the other censuses of 1871,1861,1851,1841. This gave us a good starting point of who was there.

After a year or so we made our way to the New Forest and just five mins before closing the librarian gave us a book. “Comyn’s New Forest” by Jude James printed in 1982. This was now about 1989. So we quickly wrote down the title and managed to wait ages for a copy to arrive at our local library through the leading library scheme. We were only able to keep it for about 4 weeks before it had to go back. We wrote down what we could see as being our family tree.

For there on in I was hooked.

After 16 years of researching …I’m still hooked. I can now find who is married to who, as I have other peoples family tree’s and my own and pin point who is connected to who with whom, I’ve been in touch with over the last 5 years of having my own website. I can now search the internet for distant cousins. They are happy to find someone who can see where they belong in the mess that was a large House family tree but is now 2 House families in Hampshire 1800’s and a group of researchers who all link together in Dorset.

At one point it was very hard like I had hit a brick wall but now only a few queries stumble me.

If anyone is interested in this blog, my family history website is available on Yahoo and can be found by entering “House family tree” into the search engine. My website after 5 years is now no.1.

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