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Where to start? *confuddled!*

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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 14 Mar 2008 12:05

If you want to know which Record office to contact for Cirencester I am pretty positive it will be Bristol for South Gloucestershire.

ann
Glos

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 14 Mar 2008 07:05

To add to Sylvias very good advice........

Always take a note pad and pencil to any Family funerals! lol

Welcom to this infuriating and addictive hobby but have fun :-)

Gerri x

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Pool/Poole?Overs/Hovers/Hovard?Bucket/Bouquet? Thank goodness i havent got a Smiff!........yet

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Mar 2008 02:00

To start with


talk to your parents ............ ask them for the names of their parents.

Do they know when and where their parents were born, married and/or died

Do they know their mothers' maiden name.

Do they know if the names, birth dates etc of any of their aunts & uncles.

Do they know what their grandparents were called.

Do they know when and where their grandparents were born, married, died.

Talk to any aunts and uncles, what do they remember. Do you have any cousins .... talk to them as well.

Write it all down. Keep a record of WHERE you found the information.


sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Mar 2008 01:55

Don't pay any extra to view records on Genes Reunited. It is the most expensive way to get the information you need.

Use GR for looking up names in the family trees, for getting information on these boards.

Census 1881 is available for free on www.familysearch.org

All birth, marriage and death records from when they started in September 1837 to about 1920 are available for free on www.freebmd.org.uk


You will probably find that it is well worth your while to take out a subscription to ancestry. It does looke expensive at first, but you then have access to all the censuses from 1841 to 1901 in England, Scotland and Wales. They also carry many other records.

Until the day that you do decide to take out a sub with them ........ you can ask on here for help in finding your relatives.

The diffiuclt part might be getting back to 1901 ............. the most recent census is 1901, the 1911 census will eb released in January 1912. Births marriages and deaths (or bmds) are not yet all put onto the web ... from about 1920 to about 1983, you have to consult the Complete Index on ancestry.

You may well find yourself spending quite a lot of money ..... the only way to ensure that you have the right people is to buy birth and marriage certificates, and each one costs £7


Good luck!


sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 14 Mar 2008 01:46

start with one relative that you know most about,, name date and birth place

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For better results please give all the details ,name, date place as you can {pictures by me }

CeCe

CeCe Report 14 Mar 2008 01:37

Hi everybody!

Like yourselves I am TRYING (being the operative word!) to trace my family.

I am already 'going round in circles' due to I strongly suspect is pure ignorance on what I should really be doing?!

I had one MAJOR disappointment after joing GR today..I soon find out I am not able to look through Scottish OR Irish records *sighs( this is a real gutter as the large majority are one or the other :( .. I am dazed and confuddled and need some HELP!

So, I will start with keeping some positivity :) and try to concentrate on the English relatives, now (typically) my surname is WHITE lol but we hail from the Wiltshire/Glos areas (Sherston/Cirencester) .. anybody from around those parts?

The Scottish part of the family is RAE from Pitlochry in Perthshire, JESS from Killyleagh in county down N.I.

So, before I waffle tooooooooooo much I am giving a shout out to any helpers..I need stearing in the right direction!

Thanks in advance!

Claire xx