Do you like family trees?

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I've obsession concerning dates. I like history and genealogical trees (after all, watching such a tree one can find there so many dates of birth ). I'm my family's expert of ties of blood - who's whose brother/daughter/grandmother/cousin and so on As a child I was always drawing my family trees. I NEVER forget others' dates of birth I simply love figuring out how people are related to each other.

I am a big fan of The Ice People Saga by Margit Sandemo partly because of the fact that in the begining of each novel from the series there is a genealogical tree of the Ice People family showed - from the 16th century when the whole story begins to 1960's (later the Ice People having met their dead ancestors in the Mountain of Demons got also the knowledge of their family's history from, I guess, 1200's - but here I think mostly people from Scandinavian countries will know what I'm talking about because as far as I know the Saga isn't translated into English).

I'm a minor expert on Royal genealogy. I like finding the degree of relatedness between various European royals, though the inbreeding makes things more interesting. I drew this a while back.

Ohhh I love my family tree. It goes back to the 1000s on both sides. I love the names and the places and there's a book that goes with it full of old documents, it's so fascinating!!

Have you seen 'Who do you think you are?'? It's a BBC series where they have celebrities research their family history with genealogists and look at their family trees and things, it's really cool!

I am doing my family tree, when it comes to locating my ancestors locally, I have found the graves of my great-great-great grandparents who died in the late 1800's.

if I can't locate more I will need to go to the provicinal archives.

I find visual representations of family trees too difficult to process. I'm very poor with numbers (so do not do well with dates).


This is a pity because family trees seem so darn interesting, but I find them largely unacceptable. The narrow exception is I know some (very small parts) of the family tree of certain English monarchs/nobles, although not at all comprehensibly.

I once had a minor obsession with creating family trees for my favorite fictional characters - particularly Abel Nightroad and Alucard, whose tree included their parents, their children, their grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. My brother called it a "sea of black and white" because Alucard's hair is black, Abel's hair is white, and their resulting offspring had one color, the other, or some strange combination of both.

Pedigrees for Genetics yes. Family Trees, not so much.

My cousin is creating a family tree now. She managed to find the great grandpa (born in the late 18th century) of my great great grandpa (a witch doctor) who died in the 30's. She posted the results of her searching on a website.

Yes, I enjoy genealogical charts, whether for royal families or for my family (no crossovers found yet). They make the world seem more orderly and every birth important. It's humbling to see the countless generations of effort that have gone into producing a single living human being.

Yes I had an obsession with my family tree for a few years, which occasionally recurs.

I have over 3800 people on my tree now. I would have carried on, but it costs so much to look up records, especially Scottish and Irish ones. Plus I wasn't getting much sleep...

But I'm glad I did it. My mum was adopted, so we knew very little about her family until I did this.

I love it. My family tree has been traced back to the 1500s in a couple of areas.

I love family trees. I like looking at them and looking at my family history.

I would love to do mine, but I don't know anyone past my grandparents, and our branch will die with me.

I don't like family trees for personal/cultural reasons. My parents come from India where everyone's f****ng related to everyone else and F****ng obsessed about finding out how people are related to each other, making a mental 'family tree" and bragging about their status. and the people are very gossipy and judgmental. Therefore, I refuse to have anything to do with my extended family cuz of the shame of my being "unsuccessful and socially awkward" not tolerated in Indian culture........I have told my own mother to tell all her relatives in India that I'm dead just so she doesn't have to explain why I'm unmarried and not working FT and haven't held a full time steady job for any extended period of time and why I failed out in the work world after getting a 3.5 GPA in college.

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Yes, yes, yes. I have been fascinated with dates (the numerical ones, mind you) for as long as I can remember. I have not been as obsessive over making up fake family trees that span over centuries upon centuries as I was when I was, say, 10 (I'm fifteen now), but I do still have notebooks full of fake family trees. I would come up with their names, birth places, wedding place, dates of birth, death places, place of death... and branch and branch and branch... Ah! So incredibly relaxing.

If you have any details about your grandparents dob or wedding date then it should be possible to do a family tree. Are you in the UK? I don't know about the US, but UK records are very good, and once you get before 1911 you can use the census which is very helpful. Irish records can be more tricky, but Scottish are very good. I don't know about the rest of Europe though.