alot of my family information has come from my father.  he has given me the names and dates of birth and death for the people that he can remember.  he always went through who was who in the packs of family photos when i was younger.  sadly not many got named on the reverse of the photos.  so after dad died in 2006 i hit abit of a wall.

apart from the above i had found a record on a website that gave the name of a Robert Lackey of irelands parents.  i took this as gospel and that it was my Robert Lackeys parents.  i went happily tracing this line back as far as i could etc.  to be greated with a shock when i bought Robert & Mary's marriage certificate.  the father named on the cert WASN'T the 1 i had spent the past few months tracing.

i contacted a couple of ladies that are also related and tracing this line and they also had the original father that i had.  so we were all wrong and had to delete a large section of our trees and add the new information that we had been  presented with.

this new information has caused quite a few problems, as we are unable to find Roberts mothers name or any other information on his father.  this is quite a problem.

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i recently made contact with 1 of dads cousins, who is obviously still living!  He has been a great help to me and has provided me with LOTS of photos of the family and information relating to them.  He has also given me details of other living members of the family, who i have also conacted.  i am so pleased that i am not 1 of the last 4 living lackey's on my line like i thought i was a few months ago.

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i am slowly buying the certificates for all of my lackey family.  i have got quite a few BUT there are lots more to go.  at £7 per certificate it's not cheap and i am on limited income so i cant just go and buy them.