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Unknown | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:04 |
We have access to Censuses dating from 1841 to 1901. All of them are becoming freely available online. I hear people enthusing about them and the information they are finding. Unfortunately I WANT MORE!!! Although my Tree passes through this period I am only finding reference to a very few of my Ancestors. Those who were born between say 1750 and 1900. A period of approx 150 years or 5 generations. They also only cover years which are already well supplied with info through the BMD. It is the earlier years I need information on. Is anyone in authority listening? |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:07 |
Grampa What exactly are you asking for? nell |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:09 |
Simply pointing out that the Censuses are not the panacea for all a Genealogist's ills. |
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Slinky | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:16 |
I agree G J. I have been looking for a birth of one of my ancestors who is proved to have meen born in 1855/56 as he was 22 on his marriage in 1877....can I find it? Seems he is nowhere to be found on freebmd or Latter day Saints. Anybody got any ideas ? |
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Guinevere | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:17 |
Hi Anne, Have you tried 1837online - or the parish records for a baptism? People did not always give their right ages on marriage so check a few years either side. Gwynne |
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Slinky | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:19 |
Have tried 1837 online...the only thing I can find is him, his wife and first born in 1881 census. The birth is nowhere to be found. Like Grampa says ....some don't happen to be on them. |
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valinkent | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:26 |
I agree Grampa Jim i have been looking for the last year for my great great grandfather who was born in 1818 in Gibralta but was a british subject ,nowbody seems to have any information.I would like to know how people go back to 1600/1700 ,i have so far managed 1823 on my other side. Still i shall not give up . Val |
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Slinky | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:28 |
Think they must walk round the graveyards to get the info... don't fancy that do you? |
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Phoenix | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:29 |
Grampa You're old enough, surely, to know there are poor law records, manorial records, wills, deeds, etc ad nauseam. I agree that the Victorians did go in for form filling big time, but the wonderful Norfolk rectors in the 1700s gave more information on their burials than you get on a modern death certificate. My despicable Tudor ancestors washed all their dirty linen in public, so I know how their houses were furnished, who got accused of rape, where they married (in the parlour) and what they said about each other. Censuses seem rather dry in comparison. B |
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Slinky | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:33 |
Think the most interesting thing I found up to now is an uncle I hated when he was alive...finding he never had a father on his birth cert....I always called him "one" but never guessed he was "one".!!! |
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Joy | Report | 21 Dec 2004 21:55 |
Always I want more!! I is greedy! However - some people were not registered, therefore a baptism has to be searched for if possible - records offices have to be visited / family history societies have to be joined: in order to seek for settlement certificates for instance, and people researching the same family - asking online OPCs (online parish clerks) for help with baptism, marriage or burial details - subscribing (free) to rootsweb mailing lists / message boards for surnames / counties / countries - studying cyndislist and gneuki - visiting graveyards armed with paper, pen and camera etc etc etc!! Wot an addictive occupation is this!! :) Joy |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Dec 2004 22:41 |
Valley, I did! I started my Tree in the 1960s when you actually could go to Somerset House. Jim |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 22 Dec 2004 19:14 |
I managed to find a census dated 1819! Its called the Pole Lane Census for Darwen in Lancs, and it was taken by the church elders, because they were thinking oif building a new Chapel. This census listed all the families who attended the Chapel, where they lived, when they had been born and married and the names and bapts of their children - family groups in fact. Better still, it lists things like "John, bap 12. July 1799, his child by Maud Thingy" and all those fatherless children got a list of suspects! Further back, I knew, or thought I knew, that one ancestor was a Blacksmith. A bit of a search on A2A threw up a Blacksmith of the same name, same place but 250 years earlier! From that information, I found out the first blacksmith and his wife and two sons, all named, were bound over to keep the peace to their neighbours, who were similarly bound over - they had been throwing rubbish at each other (!!!!). In the same year the Blacksmith's wife was fined for non-attendance at Church.Then the lease on the Smithy was renewed, for three lifetimes, as was the custom then, so I had Blacksmith, son and Grandson. 77 years later, the grandson died and his son, also a Blacksmith, took on another three lifetimes lease, naming two more generations. All this from a poke round on A2a. |