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Personal stories other than BMD
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Quoy | Report | 16 Apr 2009 13:30 |
Hi Paul have you tried the newspapers ? |
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Merlin38 | Report | 16 Apr 2009 08:33 |
One g g grandfather was employed as a woodsman by the Moxhull Hall Estate, now the site of the Belfry Golf Course. The family ran into financial difficulties and sold off almost an entire hamlet in 1886. G g granddad was named as tenant of one of the cottages. |
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Kate | Report | 16 Apr 2009 00:44 |
Sue has just got me thinking there with her description about the way I wrote about my family - one thing you could try is a sort of cross-reference comparison way of doing it, contrasting the past with the relative present. For instance, using a couple of my ancestors . . . |
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maryjane-sue | Report | 15 Apr 2009 23:52 |
It is possible to put “meat” on the bones just by elaborating some of the facts taken from census info, for example….. |
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Heather | Report | 15 Apr 2009 23:07 |
Yes, just names and dates are meaningless arent they. Its finding out the nitty gritty - Wills, court cases, service records and so on where you actually get a description of your people and hear their words ...............Have you also looked for any WW1 records on ancestry? |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 15 Apr 2009 18:42 |
I agree with all above, and you are right it's the personal bits that make the family tree more interesting. I have all sorts of photos and stories on mine, pictures of Textile mills, Barges etc. One man was a Butler, and we found the house he worked in , took photos and were even invited in to look around. To be honest it's adding all those bits to my tree that keeps me fascinated. |
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Heather | Report | 15 Apr 2009 17:47 |
Re your grandad - have a look at the wonderful PortCities site, which shows the work people did in the dock yards and has some fab photos. Google Newcastle and his job, to see if anything comes up like photos or employers. |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 15 Apr 2009 17:13 |
Definitely Google. |
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Hayley | Report | 15 Apr 2009 17:04 |
Don't forget to google surnames linked to both those areas. Suprising what you can turn up in weird places but google is a good start. My step-grandfather had a very common surname (Davies) & I did know he ran a coach (or omnibus) company. Imagine my suprise, while at the local archives waiting for a document to be retrieved I started leafing through a book about the history of local bus services. Who should be mentioned but my grandfather! |
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Paul | Report | 15 Apr 2009 16:29 |
I've done a fair bit of factual BMD kind of research on tree. Where do I start to look for more "meat on the bones" of family history?? How can I find out why my gr grand father moved from Govan in Glasgow to Wallsend, Newcastle after 1901? He was a "horizontal machinist" - probably a plater in shipyards - but where can I find out info about that sort of thing?? |