FMP Day 1

My FMP has the working title of 'It is a Miracle that I was ever born'. I aim to focus on the ridiculous stories of my family, and see how they have impacted my family and if i would have ever been born if they hadn't happened.

I started off my project by recording my family tress for both my maternal side and my paternal side. I did not use any ancestor websites, just my grandparents and parents knowledge of their family's. This part i found a lot easier that I expected; as my grandparents were quite welcoming to my interest. 

Some of the trees were easier to do as expected, such as my grandfather on my fathers side who was the youngest of 13 and didn't know any further back than his mothers maiden name.

Nan, Paternal side

Grandfather, paternal side

Top, Grandmother, Maternal side
Bottom, Grandfather, maternal side

Photographs by unknown artist

This week i was also had the opportunity to visit my grandparents (on my mothers side), who live in Nottingham. My grandmother has an exceptional amount of photographs dating back several generations, we did our best to identify who each person were, however were were not sure with many as on the back of many photographs there were contrasting names of the people in the photo. 

I am amazed with the quality of these photographs to say that many of them date back to the 1800's do my Great, Great, Great Grandparents.