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i googled my ancestors name & i found out their marraige date, parents marriage date & pictures :D

Crikey thats good!! Are they famous or something??!! Maz XX very jealous

I've mentioned google in the article I'm writing. So, so useful yet often looked over.

When I first started I googled one of the surnames I'd found, and I found a site setup by someone who turned out to be a 3rd cousin. She'd done tons of research, sent me a tree and a pedigree chart, and really helped me get going, showed me just how much you can find out. Haven't found anything since though lol

hardley famous - but they had 10 children - so there's bound to be someone else reasearching them out there :D

can't stop pulling my hair out just yet - cause i'm stuck on the parent's parents :D

you'd think so wouldn't you !! But I have loads of rellys with loads of kids, and not exactly huge amounts of contacts so far !

Put in an area too.

I googled my grans surname last year and found that her uncles grandson who lives in canada had listed his granddads family from the 1891 census looking for relatives in bonchurch isle of wight and my grans father was the eldest child, I nearly fell off the chair with excitment and emailed him straight away, it turned out that he had been doing a one name study for years and went back to the 1300s with the name, good eh. jenny x

i typed in my ancestors name (in quotation marks) and their parents name & the area they're from

manda put in the surname+genealogy otherwise you will get all sorts of things up with that name in it. jenny x

My Mum's father died when she was 3 yrs old - we thought, that his family had links with the Quakers, so I Googled his surname........... Imagine my surprise when the first result showed his and my Nan's names in someones tree/website - that person turned out to be the husband of Mums second cousin. Contacted him who put us in touch with Mums cousin who had been searching for her for over 10 years :O And all this in my first week of research :))

Well done, i am so pleased for you, i confirmed my gr gr gr gr grandfather on monday and i'm so chuffed that my hunch was right happy hunting sandra

Lucky girl Louise, a nice surprise there! :)