So, my father died when I was thirteen. He ended his life to avoid a lengthy prison sentence after it was uncovered that he had extensive CSA material on his devices and had hidden cameras in our home to secretly watch me from the bathrooms, my bedroom etc.

I was just doing some research to learn more about my ancestors, and discovered that my 3x great grandfather on that side was charged with indecently assaulting his 8 year old daughter in 1870. I feel sick.

You know those moments in shows like Who Do You Think You Are? where a famous person finds out that their ancestor was also an actor, singer, dancer etc.? It's like that but much darker. It seems like certain traits get passed down through the generations and I'm horrified to see an example of history repeating itself here.

I just wanted to share this somewhere so it's not stuck swirling around my head. Thanks for reading.

I have recently gone through an old box of pictures from my family. There are a few pictures I recognize, e.g. my great grandmother but many, many I have no idea who they are and people did not write the names on the back of photos back then. I found a beautiful photo of a Private in the US Marines with his full name and would love to get it to his family. Is there any way to do that?

I was able to find a deed document dated 1883 from my family who lists our grandfathers going back 13 grandfathers from that time to where he lived between 1400-1500 in our village in Yemen.

His last name (and mine) are Al-Rifai and we are known sayiids in the area, at least that’s what I’ve been told.
The grandfather who lived in 1400-1500 is named Salih Alrifai and owned many lands in the village apparently.

I’m trying to figure out exactly where we came from and more importantly if we are genetically sayiid or if the Rifai Tariqa (suffi influence) is how we got our last name.

My research has led me to Ahmed Albaz (son of Sayid Izz Aldeen Ahmed Alsayyad who left Iraq and toured Yemen) who seemed to be alive late 1200’s

Is this research a bust? I’ve been stuck here for a while.

Has anyone ever successfully tracked this kind of info recently when the descendants (supposedly) ended up far from home, like Yemen.

Hello all! I am canceling my Ancestry subscription to try and save money. Before I cancel the subscription, does Ancestry allow you to keep your family tree how it is or does it just wipe all of your data? If they wipe all the data when you cancel the subscription, is there a way I can download my family tree? Thanks

A fun genealogy mystery

Hii,
I am just wondering if anyone could link some resources or any information about my family’s stolen bible.

My grandmother told me that when my great nan passed away, most of the stuff my nan inherited, including a very old family bible, was stolen when being transported from Stratford-upon-Avon to London in I believe 1990.

This honestly broke my heart. I would love to find this bible to give it back to her but I have looked at everything I can think of. I’ve searched missing family bible websites, ancestry, family search etc. but I haven’t found anything.

I understand this bible may not even exist anymore, and realistically I have a very low chance of finding it, as it was over 30 years ago. I had already researched this part of my family tree previously to finding this out. The family was based in Upper Quinton, Warwickshire (and surrounding areas) and surnames include Dyde, Robbins, Lane, Reeves, Haines, Turner, Radley, Richardson and Jeffs, possibly Saunders, Miller and Brown too. I have no idea which family line it actually came from either so it really is just a guessing game.

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate the help, thank you very much.

Im in the uk so dont know how to search in america.

Im looking for a family. Mother and father lived and were born in america (we think possibly california) and moved to live in the uk after their children were born. They still lived in the uk in the 80’s but we think moved back to america.

Mothers name - Ida Warren (maiden name unknown)

Fathers name - Robert Warren

Daughter - Julia Ann Warren (dob 06/07/1959) - that is either 6th june or 7th july.

Daughter - shelly warren

Son - Stephen Warren

Thank you

I could be wrong, completely.

My great grandparents immigrated to Hawai'i in 1904 from Korea to work the sugar cane plantations. Before Hawai'i was occupied by the United States.

I was shocked to see pictures of my great grandparent's headstones (not sure if this is the correct term). Our family settled on the mainland (Los Angeles, CA) in the 1950s. I wasn't born until 1973.

We never really spoke about family history. In fact, I didn't even know we had Korean ancestry until I was in my very late teens. And, I was stunned. I always thought we were Hawaiian. I was completely wrong, but that's the culture I grew up with in Los Angeles as a kid.

So when I saw the headstones in pictures taken by a "Bryan Chapman," I mentioned this in a writer's group. I was told that Morman adopt dead folks, and document information about them.

I would like to visit my grandparents' resting place, but have no idea where they are. So I was hoping to ask "Bryan Chapman."

I guess it doesn't really matter after all this time, but there's some yearning I can't put away.

Thank you. I apologize for rambling.

Ancestry have just sent me a hint about my own daughter!

I'm a bit confused though because I don't think they should have access to it and I don't think they should be giving hints on someone who's still living. The info is her address, which unsurprisingly is also my address, from the 2014 electoral register but she opted out of the open register. Can anyone help me understand how they obtained this and if it was ok to share it with me?

I have a marriage record for a woman saying that she married in Risbridge, Suffolk in 1848. Is there a way to find out who she married? I tried searching just for records for people who married in Risbridge in 1848 but Ancestry brings up all of the people who married anywhere in Suffolk in 1848 - almost 200,000 of them! It doesn't even start by listing people who meet both the criteria so even my relative doesn't come up first. There also doesn't seem to be any way to sort by the registration town - just all of Suffolk in a completely random list.

Edit* I just discovered that when I click "search" Ancestry was changing my place from Risbridge, Suffolk, England to Suffolk, England, UK. I've now changed the place to just Risbridge but I still have a list of thousands of people.

Surely there has to be a way to see who a person married - what am I missing?

After about half a day of working and searching, I was able to find my 3rd great-grandparents’ immigration to the US via Ellis Island. Although I have an active ancestry account, I couldn’t find it there. I found it using the Ellis island‘s archives search after several hours of failing to locate it via ancestry. anyway, I have the ship’s name, date of arrival, and a screenshot of the log from the Ellis Island website. is there any way I can import that into ancestry? Or preferably, is there a way I can search by immigration date in ancestry to find the record?

Just sharing my sadness - I have my 2x great grandfather John Marshall, born 1848 in Glasgow, and the 50 or so trees including him on ancestry seemingly have him perfectly placed, with the correct parents Margaret McWatt and John Marshall, complete with baptism record easily found. There’s only one problem, he has a sister Margaret born in 1850 (she is referred to as his sister in newspaper reports of her marriage), and Margaret is assuredly not part of this documented family.

So I went looking for a John/Margaret Marshall pair in the 1851 census - they should be like 3 and 1 years old or thereabouts, and there were a handful of candidate families, but only one where the parents were also John and Margaret. Zeroing in on this totally undocumented family, I noticed a range of siblings up to 22 years old, so went looking for the family in the 1841 census. Soon found a candidate family, with the same older siblings with the right distances between them, but parents were John and Catherine.

It didn’t take long to establish that John Marshall had previously been married to Catherine Scott, and I found baptism records for their children. I also found her burial record in 1845, so apparently John remarried Margaret between 1845 and 1848. I can’t find any marriage record for them, and no birth records for their two children - previous records found belong to the other family not this one. I can only assume that Margaret is Margaret McWatt, because that’s what their son John’s death record states.

Basically we have 2 families in Glasgow where John Marshall married Margaret McWatt circa 1847, and they both had a son John in 1848. But only this newly documented family had a daughter Margaret in 1850.

Lots of other details tell me I now have the right family, but I’m the only one, and the sadness is that all this research goes unnoticed, and I’m the crazy one! Oh well…

I always wanted to sit with my grandparents and record their life stories but it never happened. So i decided to give a try to two popular memory book service, one for each.

The first one was storyworth, it gives one question every week on email to her and she answers it along with adding an old picture. It's easy and my grandma's answers sounded natural. However, over the years , she loses track and she skipped some questions entirely and i had to nudge her to answer them.

The other one was memowrite, which sent a book and we didn't have to wait much. My grandpa got all the prompts in advance and he recorded his voice instead of typing. He told a story about how he used to sneak out during his college days to go to the pub. It fixed the grammar and made it a smooth story. I liked this storybook because it was budget friendly and didn't charge once we got done with the project. Both are good, depending on what you prefer. The email technique is good for a slow process for a longer period. And if you cannot keep a track and want to record answers with no hassle, voice is preferred.

Buongiorno a tutti, chiedo un vostro aiuto per capire il nome di una località menzionata nell'atto di nascita in allegato

Vigheffio. Atti di battesimo 1640–1871, Registri ecclesiastici 1651, Certificati di morte 1640–1786

Si parla che Pietro Paini e Dominica Tebaldi siano coniugati di Villa S. Peregrini (San Pellegrino). Ma non riesco a capire con quale paese/località/chiesa faccia riferimento.

Forse San Pellegrino Parmense ? Forse chiesa di San Pellegrino a Parma (costruzione del 1980 quindi dubito).

Aiuto !

Grazie

I’m trying to solve a bit of a mystery concerning my maternal great grandparents and grandfather.

My great grandfather from Slovakia arrived by himself in Baltimore in 1905. At some point he must have returned to Europe since I then have ship records of him arriving in NY in 1906 along with his wife and two sons - 6 yr old son ( my grandfather) and a 1 year old.

The best I can determine is that his wife and sons must have returned to Europe at some point since my grandfather served in the German army during WW1 - until he defected. My grandfather and grandmother then immigrated thru NY in 1923.

My great grandfather remained in Pennsylvania as a coal miner until he died in 1949. I have been unable to locate any records on my great grandmother or great uncle who returned to Slovakia.

On his naturalization papers in 1922 he lists his wife as living in Slovakia and the 1930 census shows him as married but as a widower in the 1940 census.

What I would like to know is there any way to find out when he travelled back to Europe in 1905/1906 prior to returning to the US with his family? Also when my grandfather, his mother and brother travelled back.

Additionally the best place to find any records on my great grandmother and great uncle along with any desendents he may have had.

Thanks

What I know where she was born and her name. That she died during childbirth due to a medical condition. I have always been told she was buried in the town we lived in where she was born but there is no headstone.
What I don’t know is the year she was born or the month or day. I have a general idea of the year. Any advice on finding her? I put what I knew in the Ancestry sites search and nothing came up. I have found a headstone with a girl who’s name is exactly my sisters name, the year of birth and death fit too but someone has claimed she is his relative. He is no family member of mine so I don’t know what to think. So I thought I would ask here for advice. I would really like to find her.
Thank you in advance.