End of the line I spose

Up til now, I’d never known any family history back further than the mid 1800s on my father’s side. In 15 minutes, I could trace my mom’s side back to England totally for free. LOL now I have to dig some more. I only made it to the mid 1500s. One assumes the records are sketchy when it starts saying the mother was 5 years old. I don’t think things were [i]quite[/i] that different back then. 😂 it is neat to get back far enough where you start seeing the spelling variations from the lack of standardization though. Stuff is so cool. The last one I found was Nicholas Reede. From Nik to Nick! 😄

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Mamapolo2016 · F

I have always feared that if I found my family tree, some of my ancestors would be hanging from it.

JustNik · 51-55, F

@Mamapolo2016 but not most! I’m not finding a ton about what they did yet, just the basics of the line and a few farmers or laborers. There’s a whole line of Brewers, so I reckon that’s a clue. 😂 My great grandfather was killed at 39 when his dynamite he was working with exploded too soon. That was 1925 so I saw the newspaper articles. Some of them talked about the mangled and dismembered body but got the number of children he left behind wrong…made me feel like not much has changed in the world.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@JustNik Yes. The more things change the more they stay the same.