The world according to Sarah

[Dawn Kellie]

My mum did a DNA test and it revealed. Her side of the family was 70% British. I must be returning to my roots 😀

[Stottie Girl]

Why do you call it The Dog?

I mean I am sure it probably has something to do with "Hair of the dog"... but I would rather hear it from you than an AI bot.

I think it goes back a very long way the beer was first brewed in 1927. I think it used to be something the blokes would tell their wives so they could sneak off to the pub. Something like "I'm off to walk the dog" meaning they were going to get sloshed! We also call it a "bottle of broon" but never ever "newkie brown" that's a southern thing that will get scornful looks up here ha ha!

What are your local tipples?

[Dawn Kellie]

Ok, I need the translator
Tipples?

[Stottie Girl]

My mum did a DNA test and it revealed. Her side of the family was 70% British. I must be returning to my roots 😀

Not surprising considering the colonial past. Even the Irish were British back then. We did get about ha ha! "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was actually very true at one point.
Did it sugest a region? sometimes surnames can give an indication though with it being your mum the orignal surname would need to be traced.

How easy is it research family trees over there? Did the US always have acurate census data to track?

[Stottie Girl]

Ok, I need the translator
Tipples?

Lol! Tipples are drinks as in "do you fancy a tipple?"

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Yeah "the dog" as we call it is real. It's been brewed for over 100 years and still going strong. No longer brewed in the city centre though or in newcastle to be fair. Shame I used to like the malty smell of the brewery wafting through the streets of the West End. Be careful with it though, it's loopy juice! apparently it became popular in the states for a while too.

I remember the smell in the city centre when the brewery was there. Early 2ks I think. When I was young I drunk quite a bit of it. Nothing tastes quite like it to be honest. Very lethal though.

Charlotte 😻

[Stottie Girl]

I remember the smell in the city centre when the brewery was there. Early 2ks I think. When I was young I drunk quite a bit of it. Nothing tastes quite like it to be honest. Very lethal though.

Charlotte 😻

Yeah the smell somehow reminded me of weetabix or malted shreddies!

[Dawn Kellie]

My personal drink of choice is a bourbon neat. I don't like beer or wine. I will drink Twisted Tea. Which is iced tea with a bit of alcohol added.
In America as a whole beer is the drink of choice the brand varies by area.

[Dawn Kellie]

Not surprising considering the colonial past. Even the Irish were British back then. We did get about ha ha! "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was actually very true at one point.
Did it sugest a region? sometimes surnames can give an indication though with it being your mum the orignal surname would need to be traced.

How easy is it research family trees over there? Did the US always have acurate census data to track?

The region i don't recall. I remember some Irish and English.
My sur name is very Dutch German, but my dad's side of the family has never done DNA as far as I know.
Census on this side of the pond are hit and miss. I can trace my sur name back to the first American. There is an entire web page on it.

[Stottie Girl]

Family history is interesting. Geneology even more so. I will have to get a DNA thingy done on me one day. I can trace my roots on my dads side to Cumbria and Germany. My mums side we've never done the family tree. I'll have to get round to that one day. I defnitely have a scandi like nose! blue eyes I get from my dad though.

Did you find any noteable connections?

Bizarely, on my dads side we have a relative by marriage who was the first person in the world to be knocked over and killed by a train! A dubious claim to fame if you ask me ha ha!
 

[Dawn Kellie]

My ancestry has some interesting stuff. I've seen pictures of ancestors at some famous battlefields in the American Civil War. My  maternal grandfather was a tank commander in WW2. My paternal great grandfather was a engineer for and friend of Henry Ford.

[KathyLauren]

Did you find any noteable connections?

My father was into genealogy, so I have our entire family tree on disk somewhere.  Nobody interesting, though.  Unless you count William the Conqueror.  But he was so many generations back that a person's ancestors in that generation outnumber the entire population of the British Isles, meaning that odds are good that anyone is related to him.  I can't count that as a brag.

When I was planning to join the local volunteer fire department, their web page had a list of members.  I saw that one member had the same surname as me.  Just for fun, I looked at the page of unlabelled photos to see if I could spot him, even though, to the best of my knowledge, we had no relatives in North America.  I picked out one photo of a member that had my dad's eyes.  Sure enough, he was the one with my surname!  Apparently, some relative a few generations back must have emigrated.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I researched my family history for over forty years. My database has over 4,000 relatives dating back to the 1700s.

There is a lot of online genealogy databases online but most are crap. They are more of a collection of surnames and lack proper verification that the families are linked. It takes time to check records and cross-reference with other records to maintain accuracy.

I have certified birth, marriage, and death certificates for my direct lineage going back to Lincolnshire in the early 1800s.

[Stottie Girl]

My ancestry has some interesting stuff. I've seen pictures of ancestors at some famous battlefields in the American Civil War. My  maternal grandfather was a tank commander in WW2. My paternal great grandfather was a engineer for and friend of Henry Ford.

The civil war stuff must be pretty cool.

My great grandfather was involved in either the seige of Mafeking or Ladysmith during the Boer War in South Africa. My grandmother had left notes saying he had been involved in both but I find that hard to believe as they were close together timewise.

We were also told that when he returned home the local mayor had arranged some sort of celebratory welcome home event at the train station but he got wind of it and jumped off at the station before his!

Apparently he knew Cecil Rhodes who went to be the founder of Rhodesia (now Zambia & Zimbabwe). Rhodes gave him a job as a diamond mine overseer for a while but his wife would not emigrate so he gave it up for her. He must have done something noteworthy during one of those battles. I will look into getting his war records one day if I can.

[Stottie Girl]

I researched my family history for over forty years. My database has over 4,000 relatives dating back to the 1700s.

There is a lot of online genealogy databases online but most are crap. They are more of a collection of surnames and lack proper verification that the families are linked. It takes time to check records and cross-reference with other records to maintain accuracy.

I have certified birth, marriage, and death certificates for my direct lineage going back to Lincolnshire in the early 1800s.

Lincoln is a lovely city Lori, very underated. I've been there with work before, very impressive cathedral, used to be the tallest in Europe for quite sometime.

[big kim]

Mum was a Scot from Buckie. Dad son of an Irishman and English mother. Likely a bit of Viking in there too  as I'm tall and blonde/silver and Mum was tall and fair haired.
Would have liked the red hair of our Great Grandfather's, it skipped my parents and sister and myself but both her daughters are red heads and grandson.

[Stottie Girl]

Mum was a Scot from Buckie. Dad son of an Irishman and English mother. Likely a bit of Viking in there too  as I'm tall and blonde/silver and Mum was tall and fair haired.
Would have liked the red hair of our Great Grandfather's, it skipped my parents and sister and myself but both her daughters are red heads and grandson.

Buckie's a fishing town isn't it? You could be a bit Viking yeah, I'm probably the same, blonde hair blue eyes, scandi nose, I'm not very tall though.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Lincoln is a lovely city Lori, very underated. I've been there with work before, very impressive cathedral, used to be the tallest in Europe for quite sometime.

He was born in Marsh Chapel in 1808. He moved to Leeds for work as a Potter. When the potteries shut down, they moved to Swinton. Then that one went bankrupt, so they moved to Louth, Lincolnshire. He is buried there. After his death, his wife and children moved back to Leeds.

I have read some books about Louth by local historians, but I would love to visit his grave someday. I would stop by the Parish church (St. Margaret's?) and have a peek at their registers to see if I can learn who his parents were.

While in Leeds, they married at Leeds Minster. I have some old photos of what it looked like before all the remodeling was done.

[Stottie Girl]

He was born in Marsh Chapel in 1808. He moved to Leeds for work as a Potter. When the potteries shut down, they moved to Swinton. Then that one went bankrupt, so they moved to Louth, Lincolnshire. He is buried there. After his death, his wife and children moved back to Leeds.

I have read some books about Louth by local historians, but I would love to visit his grave someday. I would stop by the Parish church (St. Margaret's?) and have a peek at their registers to see if I can learn who his parents were.

While in Leeds, they married at Leeds Minster. I have some old photos of what it looked like before all the remodeling was done.

Never heard of Louth before. Looks like a lovely little place, Very impressive church by the looks of it.

[Dawn Kellie]

I've got some relatives buried at Arlington. We went after some wet weather and my youngest and I got stuck in the mud over the grave. It was horrifying and funny at the same time.