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    Anybody else love genealogy? I've researched my family right back to the 1700s living in a house my grandmother remembered visiting before it was knocked down in the 50s for Hull college. History fascinates me, but when it's personal it's even more interesting.
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      Editing … In case you're interested, both my grandmother's families have lived in my home town as far back as records go. My dad's dad is from Accrington near Manchester and my mother's dad from South Shields near Newcastle. I can find no trace of anything but English, not even a bit of Scottish in there.
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    • Sudertum
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      Editing … Made some family researches during working in city archive in 2016. Went back to then records started in 1874 (due a law by Bismarck i assume). Almost any of my ancesters i was able to find was born and died in Soest, except a grandmother of my grandmother came from Memel (Prussia, today Klaipeda, Lithuania) and my grandmother born in Essen (but her mother was born in a village close to Soest two). Live on the same place like the majority of my ancestors two centuries ago!
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      Editing … That's cool man, I like to see local people staying local, building a history in one place. Hull is a dump but I love it because it's in my history.
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      Editing … I don't know anything about my genealogy other than my parents are both from poland. But because of that I think my body is genetically suited to handle cold weather. (even if it's just slightly)
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      Editing … Have you been to Poland? Check out your heritage? Also do you have any cool stories like escaping to Yankland from the nazis?
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      Editing … Indeed, Soest is a quite provincal place (too quite then young) but i just hesitate to leave due the history behind it, a city beeing roughly 1500 years old.
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      Editing … Did you guys know that Hull was the site that sparked the English civil War? We denied King whatshisface entry to the city. The site where the old gate stood is on display in the town centre.
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      Editing … Nope, have only a post WW2 story from my grandfather. In 1950 (~) he signed a two year treaty as a farm worker in France. Arriving there (somewhere in Department Creuse), he meet a malagasian guy. Which was a former soldier of the french forces and survivor of a conzentration camp, which job was to bury his dead mates. So the black guy was holding a grudge against germans. His plan to kill my grandfather if he has the sign of the SS on his arm, but my gramps was a normal soldier in the war. Later they actually became friends, once the malagasian invited my grandfather to a pub spending the wage of a month together.
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      Editing … How'd you do the research Nod? I've never tested out any of those ancestry websites.
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      Editing … Honestly it doesn't interest me at all. The only reason why anything of that matter might be for family medical history and genetic markers. I didn't know them; they were long dead before I was born. I love history in general, but I'm talking about states and cultures and societies, and, yes, the everyday lives of people, but not so much about X peasant who is my 18 times grandfather.
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      Editing … @Richard Pale yeah, I used all the ancestry sites. Those alone weren't enough though, they're too incomplete to just look and see it all. I had to ask family members for grandparents names and addresses, approximate dob's etc.
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      Editing … Interesting ingnored those ancestry sites so far, everyone gets access to such data in Germany just ask, and pay a fee if you are unable to read the old german scripts yourself.
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      Editing … I'm interested but dont know where to start. I know on my mom's side is Slovenian and Austrian but dont anything about my fathers side.
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      Editing … Well Aramonde knowing a birth location probably in Kärnten/Steiermark/Krain region at moms side would be a good start.
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