I have to tell somebody

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Nobody in my family is even remotely interested, but I have to tell somebody:

I just found the marriage of Peter Heckmann and Agnes ter Boven on 04.02.1680.
They are my 9th great grandparents.

crumbs, thats waaaaay back well done

awwww that’s lovely!! I only managed to trace my family through the census records so had to stop at the 1800s how did you go further back? Parish records?

I love that you've come on here to share😊 Genealogy isn't my thing, but wanted to ask whether Agnes was Dutch/ there were any connections to the Netherlands?

I meant I don't know anything about genealogy, not that I'm not interested! Just don't know😊

Wow OP, thats some great sleuthing there!

That's great. I can trace DH's line much further back because they're posh but mine are commoners and anything in the 1600s is great going!

Oh well done, that is terrific.

I used FindAGrave.com in the U.S. to trace my family back to 1525 (I think) England, just by looking at gravestones and the information provided by others who really did do the work.
Someone - or many others - did a whole lot of work and I just breezed through the site going backwards.
It’s fascinating - if you can use it in the U.K., I highly recommend it. I had no idea my family’s ancestry was there, just waiting for me.

@Cantseethewindows
Lower Rhine - the local language is close to Dutch.
Yes I read pages and pages of church records. I hope to get further back and find their parents.

Exciting. Where were they wed?

I know what you mean about no-one being interested - I could bang on about this stuff for hours but nobody else cares

My ancestors were ordinary people, I was lucky in almost all lines that records were kept properly.
Two lines I cannot trace because the records were lost in an air raid.

@Jaffacakeorisitabiscuit
Friemersheim, now part of Duisburg.

Oh, that's cool!

My maternal grandfather had an unusual surname and I googled his name one night and was beyond shocked to discover a family tree going back to at least 1700 that was done in Australia. An ancestor had been sent on a prison ship to Australia and the level of detail including photos of where the family originated was amazing.

There's loads of other names of those who were sent to Australia from Ireland and the UK so it may be of interest to others.

roots-boots.net/ft/names.html#ttoz

Are the records you're looking at onlline? A schoolfriend's Mum was doing their family tree back in the seventies. I can't imagine starting that journey pre internet! She used to write to vicars and tee up visits to churches to look at their parish records and spend holidays mooching round churchyards.

I did my family tree. Can't work out a way of saying this without being offensive but it's not me being offensive IYSWIM, it's what a relative thought

My dads mum, didn't like my mum. It's all come out now my mum has died (dads mum died years ago). Apparently dads mum said she didn't like my mum as she was mixed race
My dad was WTF (I am a redhead as pale as can be) yes my mum had dark colouring but more Spanish type, olive skin I would say

Anyway I did the family tree, and my mums (would have to look it up to be exact) great grandfather was black, he was born in Barbados from what I can work out, was a slave and then came over to Scotland and married there. None of us had a clue and I find is fascinating, I'm back somewhere in 1700 at the minute!

Amazing!!

That’s really cool.

we named our daughter after our first ancestors to come from Sweden in the 13th century. Everyone thinks she is named after a film. 😭

only ninth grandparents- that feels like it is waaaaay back!

nice bit of personal history.

...and?

That's a great find! Well done

I would love to do my family tree but the last time I tried I got to 1880 I think and couldn't get any further... my family on both my mum and dads side are both VERY VERY common names 2-3 generations back so it's really hard to find the next relative back...

If you don’t get it, why bother to post?

Well done! Doing ancestry can be such a headache and I can't imagine getting that far back and having to check all of those details.

I regularly got confused with my grandmothers side who seemed to name all men Alfred John every chance they got, I hit a (light) brick wall at the early 1900's for that side I will try again when I have the energy.

I found my Bangladeshi grandfathers brothers and sisters who none of us knew existed and I managed to find my granfathers brother who's still alive in a little village called syedpur! I've got a photo of him and he's soooooo old. I gained contact with that side of my family by stumbling across a YouTube video about Bangladeshi's who first moved to the U.K. in the 50's and realised they were talking about my grandad who helped a lot of them with their documents, he helped with setting up the first mosque in my city which was in a terraced house that used to be a synagogue. Then I found out my mums cousin who was Bangladeshi lived a few doors down from us when I was growing up. It was mind blowing, I was always told my mums family was Spanish for starters.

My granddads sister moved to America in the 40s and did a ton of research which I piggy backed off of, if it's accurate then we go right back to Robert the Bruce on that side.

On my mum side we go way back to MPs and knights during the tudor period including their properly calligraphied freedom of the city documents with the first initial Posh leeter as they did back then and a relative that was given monastic land during the reformation. Others left the UK and became founding fathers in Nantucket and Canada. As we head toward Victoria times though there are many member who ended up in Workhouses and domestic service.

I don't know how accurate it all is as I've just used ancestry, but accurate or not it brings history alive a bit thinking you had direct links.

This level of genealogy blows my mind .
I'm not even certain who my mother is