are women in YOur fmaily the guradians of family history?

[FluffyMummy123]

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me and my sister have each taken a side of the family to research. I have even researched dh's family!

god i must be dull

My husband is really into family history, he knows more about my family than I do. I havent got the type of brain that remembers where people were born, or when. My strengths lie in other areas!

My mother has traced the family tree back centuries. Her family, and my Dads. A few years ago she went over to America for a family convention - lots of people with the same name that are ridiculously hardly related. Tragic. Have you been taking typing lessons, Cod?

I'm the history guardian in my family while BIL is the guardian of dh's family history. It's soooo addictive once you get going.

My mum and MIL are both quite into family trees. PIL is interested in what MIL has found out. My dad hasn't got a clue.

None of us are any good at remembering birthdays

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definately addictive! My mum and I do it for our family - we have very little info on dh's family and I think its because sadly, all the women have died quite young and the only surviving members are dh and his uncle, who know nothing!!

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FIl has been doing the family tree, but I htink he is an exception really. He is retired and probably ode sit to avoid the lists that MIL draws up for him!

My dad had absolutle yno idea at all. I remind him each year of my sis's birthday. And dds.

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He asked his sister some, but she is a lot younger, so didn't know as much.
A lot was done on line (he is in USA).

Some second cousin twice removed who I've found on Facebook. Apparently all the info is on handwritten sheets of A4 in his dad's dining room though.

My grandfather on maternal side and father on parental side

This is a man thing, surely?

So that's one bloke.

parental=paternal

sorry mp, x-post.

I find it vaguely interesting e.g. I scanned some stuff and lots of children from 100 eyars ago just seemed to GO MISSING or die. Shocker.

But really I don't feel any family TIES or INTEREST in it. It seems a bit old-fashioned to me.

My father is the expert in my family, on both his and my mother's (much more illustrious and interesting ) family.

But one of my mother's first cousins is also very keen on genealogy.

They both participate in a much broader network of family members interested in genealogy that includes men and women.

In the previous generation my maternal grandfather (he of the illustrious family...) was the expert.

I started looking into my father's family, after he died. He knew virtually nothing about his parents, except their names and even there he was wrong! They died when he was young and he was raised by an aunt. Dad himself never had any interest but I find it endlessly fascinating. I've got back to 1688 thus far.