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09-07-13, 22:04
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11th great grandparents!
I have three or more Dennis branches in my family. So I felt inspired to investigate a little further, using the Norfolk registers. In one evening I'm back further than I've ever got unaided.
And if I ever get to Norwich, there are wills to back up the theory. Baptism in 1580 and still going strong.
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09-07-13, 22:09
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Phoenix
I have one branch like that as well - never moved out of the parish, in fact never moved out of the farm. Awkward creature that I am, never satisfied, I felt almost as if I'd cheated, it was so easy..... OC
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09-07-13, 22:30
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Take it from me, it won't be long before you're sulking because there's no register before 1539! OC
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09-07-13, 22:32
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OC, I do like having to earn an ancestor. There is always the sneaking feeling that in the next village (records not surviving) a parallel family existed.
What really gets me is that I subsidised the purchase of the microfiche for SoG so I could get my hands on the material and never noticed this branch. Though I have to say that the microfiche was pretty hard to read.
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09-07-13, 22:35
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10-07-13, 08:02
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How wonderful, Phoenix. OC is right, you will wish that the registers started earlier.
I also found a register where the first entry was an ancestor. It was an eureka moment.
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10-07-13, 10:20
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Manorial records are worth the sweat and tears too. I have one such record, I think from the 1200s (from memory"
"Deo gratias, this day my sonne is borne of my wyffe". A slight shame he didn't put his wife's name, but never mind.... OC
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10-07-13, 21:10
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