Your ancestry

[tiggerblue10]

I know trhis should be in History, Ancestry, but the audience is a bit higher in CB.

I was having a discussion with my family yesterday about our ancestry. My father is very knowledgeable about Cypriot history and told me that we are possibly descendants of the Maronite Catholics who came to the Island 700 years ago. He also told me how the people of my village used to go to the mosque during the day and the secretly go to a church in the evening when they would not be seen.

What do you know of your ancestry?

[Bbbananas]

Brilliant stories.... this is all making me want to delve into my family history. Genealogy United here I come....

[craft1948]

One of the funnier things was that when I started doing the family tree my sister said she would help as my late gran had told her loads of family stories. When I dug deeper into official records she'd told my sister a pack of lies...it was absolutely hilarious the 'skeletons' she had tried to cover up. Having said that she was usually full of guinness and whisky whilst recalling the 'facts'......

[tiggerblue10]

That is very sad Fluffy. Its so sad that people have to fight for what they believe in.

[tiggerblue10]

Well thats grandparents for you Craft. My dad told eveyone in my family that Saddam Hussein's mother came from my village in Cyprus years ago and I stupidly believed him!!! Lol

Go for it Salla, you'll never know whether you were a direct descendant of William the Conq or Ethered the Unready.

[craft1948]

Must be awful if you find that you're related to a mass murderer or Hitler or Attila the Hun......

[Lil O'lady]

I always thought one half Irish, one half English, till I found my dad's mother was actually Indian, a family secret well covered and never referred to.

[tiggerblue10]

Indeed Craft! Can you imagine if you were a decendant of Sawney Bean! Lol

[tiggerblue10]

Well it is exciting though Lil :o)

[dot.haukes]

Oh we have the Lee and Boswell Gypsies on my kids Dad's side, and the Killingback family who lived in one of the tenements the night one of the rippers victims was murdered, in Whitechapel.

[tiggerblue10]

Anyhoo, I'm off to get ready now. I've got a few days of work and I'm going to the historical county of Essex to visit Mr BF. I may be on my lappy later.

Keep them coming and I'll catch you later xxx

[tiggerblue10]

Thats pretty grim Dot. Do you know which one of the victims it was?

Sadly I love reading about true crime through history. I find it fascinating.