My OperaHow to Find Family History
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:42:04 AM
History plays a very important role in anyone's existence and a lot of people recognize this and would like to find their ancestors and family history.
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If you are experiencing difficulty researching your family tree then you may can learn something with my experience here. I saw it got nowhere with the following ancestor's birth, marriage or death - on or off-line - then a chance visit to a family History Website and an hour or two looking at the transcripts and a brick wall in our neighbors history research came tumbling off! This, together with considering spelling variations of artists, opened up a
to me.
My paternal line 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 offered on-line for England so that after this I had to begin looking at parish reports. I had worked out that my three times great-grandfather was called John Thorn and from the information given in this census collections I knew that he had been born in about 1795 and their wife, Elizabeth, in about 1798.
As a member of The Modern culture of Genealogists in Goswell Streets, London EC1. I was aware that SoG has the biggest collection of Parish Records in Britain on microfiche. They've also got a few transcripts of parish registers in the library.
Unfortunately Dartmouth parish records weren't microfilmed, but a selection of Devon Ancestors and family history Society booklets of the marriages of most of the churches in the city, including St. Saviour's, were available. Scanning one book for almost any likely ancestors I noted down that on 13 April 1817 a John Thorn wedded an Elizabeth Sissell. With this tentative lead, I hit the net. I was looking for almost any evidence that this was the marriage of my own ancestors. I opened the Dartmouth-history. org. uk website for the Dartmouth Archives and realising that it voluntary history group had an extremely good family history section including transcribed baptisms, burials, your marriage and census records. I could read the very same details, as I had seen in London, on this niche site. The information began in 1586 and leaped to 1850! There was the relationship of John to Elizabeth which time I noticed that this witness were given as John Adams and Sunass (sic) Sissell. I made the assumption that it particular person was the main bride's family and might have been her father, but still the name Sunass gave me great concern precisely as it simply didn't seem correct and I thought which possibly it wasn't legible on the transcriber.
After doing family history for a few years now, I'm aware that names may be transcribed incorrectly. Perhaps written down as the transcriber had seen these (as best practice dictates) and not changed to conveniently fit in with what is consider to become correct. I wondered if both first name and the second had not been written down by anybody in question, as they will often well have been illiterate. When you come to do your own research you should bear in mind this point. family history, family history, family history
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If you are experiencing difficulty researching your family tree then you may can learn something with my experience here. I saw it got nowhere with the following ancestor's birth, marriage or death - on or off-line - then a chance visit to a family History Website and an hour or two looking at the transcripts and a brick wall in our neighbors history research came tumbling off! This, together with considering spelling variations of artists, opened up a
to me.
My paternal line 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 offered on-line for England so that after this I had to begin looking at parish reports. I had worked out that my three times great-grandfather was called John Thorn and from the information given in this census collections I knew that he had been born in about 1795 and their wife, Elizabeth, in about 1798.
As a member of The Modern culture of Genealogists in Goswell Streets, London EC1. I was aware that SoG has the biggest collection of Parish Records in Britain on microfiche. They've also got a few transcripts of parish registers in the library.
Unfortunately Dartmouth parish records weren't microfilmed, but a selection of Devon Ancestors and family history Society booklets of the marriages of most of the churches in the city, including St. Saviour's, were available. Scanning one book for almost any likely ancestors I noted down that on 13 April 1817 a John Thorn wedded an Elizabeth Sissell. With this tentative lead, I hit the net. I was looking for almost any evidence that this was the marriage of my own ancestors. I opened the Dartmouth-history. org. uk website for the Dartmouth Archives and realising that it voluntary history group had an extremely good family history section including transcribed baptisms, burials, your marriage and census records. I could read the very same details, as I had seen in London, on this niche site. The information began in 1586 and leaped to 1850! There was the relationship of John to Elizabeth which time I noticed that this witness were given as John Adams and Sunass (sic) Sissell. I made the assumption that it particular person was the main bride's family and might have been her father, but still the name Sunass gave me great concern precisely as it simply didn't seem correct and I thought which possibly it wasn't legible on the transcriber.
After doing family history for a few years now, I'm aware that names may be transcribed incorrectly. Perhaps written down as the transcriber had seen these (as best practice dictates) and not changed to conveniently fit in with what is consider to become correct. I wondered if both first name and the second had not been written down by anybody in question, as they will often well have been illiterate. When you come to do your own research you should bear in mind this point. family history, family history, family history
