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kelly anne marie

kelly anne marie Report 6 Nov 2013 12:08

hiya I wonder if anyone could help me. I am trying to do a family tree. and have kinda hit a dead end. I have my great grandparents names and I would like to find out there parents names and I don't no how to do it. can anyone possibly help me? please. :-D xx

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 6 Nov 2013 12:10

Do you have any certificates

Post some details

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 6 Nov 2013 12:37

Hi Kelly

Post your Great Grandparents details and we will see what we can do.

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 6 Nov 2013 12:51

[EDIT: this advice only applies to England & Wales - see Reggie's post below.]

Hi Kelly -

If your gr-grandparents married in 1837 or later:
Go to FreeBMD ( http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl ), select Type "marriage", enter your gr-grandparents' names and any other info you have about them, and click on "Find".

FreeBMD is free to use, as the name suggests.

If you have an idea as to which county they married in, then that's very useful to put in. Also a rough idea of when their marriage might have been - enter a range of perhaps 10 years just before the birth of their child/children.

That will narrow it down a bit.
Unless they have very common names, you may perhaps be able to decide which of the results is their marriage.

Then if you buy the marriage cert, that should give you their ages and their fathers' names.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 6 Nov 2013 13:20

In which country?

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 7 Nov 2013 12:56

Hello Kelly and welcome to the Community Boards... :-D

I will offer another piece of advice to that given above........take a look at the first couple of threads on this board - they are full of helpful advice for those just starting out. Good luck, and come back and ask questions on this thread which you are stuck. :-)




(I will let Kelly know that she has replies to her query.) :-)

Researching:
ADVICE: Click on 'My Threads' over on the left to find your replies. Please respond to your replies by typing in the Add Reply box at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!

kelly anne marie

kelly anne marie Report 7 Nov 2013 16:26

hello thank you all for your and help. unfortunately I have no other information apart from his name which turned out to be a wrong name anyway. so im back to square one. thank you all again :-D x

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 7 Nov 2013 16:40

We can't help if you don't give us some info..................