My OperaHow to Break a Family History Brick Wall
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:32:54 AM
I had got nowhere with the following ancestor's birth, marriage or death - on or off-line - a chance visit to a family group History Website and a couple of hours looking at the transcripts and then a brick wall in my family history research came tumbling off! This, together with thinking of spelling variations of labels, opened up a
in my opinion.
My paternal sections in Dartmouth, Devon, UK has always been a bit frustrating in the event the census records ran available in 1841. This, not surprisingly, is the earliest census available on-line for England to make sure that after this I required to begin looking at parish notes. I had worked out that my three times great-grandfather was called John Thorn and in the information given in that census collections I knew that he had been born within about 1795 and his wife, Elizabeth, in concerning 1798.
For a member of The Modern culture of Genealogists in Goswell Road, London EC1. I was aware that SoG has the biggest assortment of Parish Records in The british isles on microfiche. They've also got some transcripts of parish registers inside library.
Unfortunately Dartmouth parish records are not microfilmed, but a selection of Devon Genealogy and family history Society booklets of the marriages of some of the churches in the town, including St. Saviour's, were available. Scanning one book for any likely ancestors I observed down that on 13 May 1817 a John Thorn married an Elizabeth Sissell. With this tentative lead, I hit the online market place. I was looking for almost any evidence that this has been the marriage of my ancestors. I opened the Dartmouth-history. org. uk website for the Dartmouth Archives and realising that the voluntary history group had an enormously good family history section including transcribed baptisms, burials, marriages and census records. I could read the same details, as I had seen in London, on this niche site. The information began in 1586 and ran to 1850! There was the relationship of John to Elizabeth this also time I noticed that this witness were given as John Adams and Sunass (sic) Sissell. I made the assumption that particular person was the main bride's family and might have been her father, but still the name Sunass gave me great concern as it simply didn't seem correct and I thought that will possibly it wasn't legible on the transcriber.
After doing family history just the summer years now, I'm aware that names can be transcribed incorrectly. Perhaps written down for the reason that transcriber had seen these (as best practice dictates) and not changed to conveniently participate in what is consider to be correct. I wondered if both the first name and the second had not been written down by anybody in question, as they may well have been illiterate. When you come to undertake your own research you should take note this point. The vicar could have misinterpreted the name writing it as he had heard it spoken to him and for that reason that "Sissell" could possibly been "Cecil" or something completely different. As for Sunass - at that time I was clueless to what it could have recently been! family trees, family history, family trees
in my opinion.
My paternal sections in Dartmouth, Devon, UK has always been a bit frustrating in the event the census records ran available in 1841. This, not surprisingly, is the earliest census available on-line for England to make sure that after this I required to begin looking at parish notes. I had worked out that my three times great-grandfather was called John Thorn and in the information given in that census collections I knew that he had been born within about 1795 and his wife, Elizabeth, in concerning 1798.
For a member of The Modern culture of Genealogists in Goswell Road, London EC1. I was aware that SoG has the biggest assortment of Parish Records in The british isles on microfiche. They've also got some transcripts of parish registers inside library.
Unfortunately Dartmouth parish records are not microfilmed, but a selection of Devon Genealogy and family history Society booklets of the marriages of some of the churches in the town, including St. Saviour's, were available. Scanning one book for any likely ancestors I observed down that on 13 May 1817 a John Thorn married an Elizabeth Sissell. With this tentative lead, I hit the online market place. I was looking for almost any evidence that this has been the marriage of my ancestors. I opened the Dartmouth-history. org. uk website for the Dartmouth Archives and realising that the voluntary history group had an enormously good family history section including transcribed baptisms, burials, marriages and census records. I could read the same details, as I had seen in London, on this niche site. The information began in 1586 and ran to 1850! There was the relationship of John to Elizabeth this also time I noticed that this witness were given as John Adams and Sunass (sic) Sissell. I made the assumption that particular person was the main bride's family and might have been her father, but still the name Sunass gave me great concern as it simply didn't seem correct and I thought that will possibly it wasn't legible on the transcriber.
After doing family history just the summer years now, I'm aware that names can be transcribed incorrectly. Perhaps written down for the reason that transcriber had seen these (as best practice dictates) and not changed to conveniently participate in what is consider to be correct. I wondered if both the first name and the second had not been written down by anybody in question, as they may well have been illiterate. When you come to undertake your own research you should take note this point. The vicar could have misinterpreted the name writing it as he had heard it spoken to him and for that reason that "Sissell" could possibly been "Cecil" or something completely different. As for Sunass - at that time I was clueless to what it could have recently been! family trees, family history, family trees
