Have you ever wanted to research your family tree? Sometimes it can yield results incredibly quickly, other times the twists and turns leave you feeling lost and dizzy, there always seem to be too many options or none at all. However, the results are invariably rewarding - even if they are not what was expected!
Most families have a skeleton in their cupboard and mine has been no exception with a long family history of involvement with the Luddites and their struggles at the beginning of the 19th Century against intollerable working conditions, harsh justice and scarce food supplies.
Their solutions left much to be desired and ultimately represented a step too far for those who had rpeviously supported them. Ultimately this led to 13 being 'suffered at the new drop' at York Castle some 200 years ago, the greatest number ever executed in one day. One of them turned out to be an one of my families particular skeletons (no pun intented).
There are others however - and I shall hope to share them with you as I travel through the records and clues of the past to piece together a more complete family history. If you have any comments or find that some of your research coincides with that presented here, please feel free to contact me.
If you are stuck with your research, especially if it relates to the Yorkshire area, I may be able to help with a free look up service. I will post the records that can be searched on this blog and on my website (http://www.yorkgen.com/) once it's up and running at Easter.
