Cultured Views

Tracing your family tree and finding living relatives

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I have been into genealogy for about twenty years now and until recently dealt mostly with locating and finding long dead ancestors. One thing about this past time is that it brings you into contact with so many people you would otherwise have never met and all with the same goals in mind as yourself.

Recently I have struck some luck as I have been contacted by two relations ( cousins ) and they have found me through my other site Hamilton Family History. One cousin is twice removed and the other is a girl my age that I went to school with when we were small. They are both from Mum’s side of the family - there’s hardly anyone left from Dad’s side unfortunately.

It’s great though to find people, family members, who you have lost contact with and who are working away at their family history as well. With any luck we will be able to share our info and put more pieces of the jigsaw together!

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My Genealogy site

My other sites, Hamilton Family History and Mums Finance, are well up and running now. Trying to maintain three blogs can be time consuming but I particularly am enjoying working on the genealogy blog. It was an ambition of mine to publish my family history at some stage so being able to document it all on the blog is very satisfying. Talk about a lot of work though!.

I started doing family research some years back; the trick is to talk to as many older relatives as soon as you can and write everything down as you go along. It is amazing the kinds of things that our older family members hang onto over the years and often, sadly, the valuable things they tend to chuck out.

For instance, my Mums auntie had a stash of photo’s that were taken during the first world war and yet when my grandmother died they got thrown out in the ‘clear out’. Lost forever those particular pictures but fortunately Mums sister managed to save even more items.

My advice is to ask your grandparents for any old photo’s and make copies of them. Even get them restored as the process these days can restore them to almost an almost new condition. Just remember; don’t throw anything out!.

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Family History Interests

To all those who have dropped by here for the subject of genealogy, I now have a new site for you to visit and link to: If you are researching the name of Hamilton(Co Donegal Ireland) then click on the link where it will take you to my new site.

If you are looking to research  the Stewart name relating to the family of County Tyrone then follow the same link or visit Stewart Family History. There you will find, on both sites, info relating to the Hamilton’s of Brownhall Co. Donegal Ireland, and also the Stewarts of Killymoon, Co. Tyrone. Both families are linked by marriage.

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