I took full advantage of the Ancestry Free long Easter weekend.
I had in the past done a bit of this ancestral digging for the family on my husbands side who are in Australia.
I jotted those bits of information down in a little notebook.
This must be something in the region of ten(or maybe even more) years ago.
I found it interesting back then, so this free long weekend seemed a fine time to dig out the info that I had and add to it.
I also had a bit of information about Ma's side of the family too.
Back when I did the earlier searching there were people still alive who could furnish me with the bones of information.
Alas now these family members have gone to glory and I wish with all my heart I had asked them more stuff.
Once the free weekend was over I felt quite bereft not to be able to do some searching while himself was watching a crappy black and white version of Sherlock Holmes from nineteen hundred and frozen to death.
I sought out some of the BMD and Parish records, but they left me dangling for want of more evidence.
In the end himself said to me 'for goodness sake, subscribe to the web site' so that is what I have done.
I have spent a number of hours, got a square numb bum in the process, in order to find family on both sides.
Daughter subscribed to the two week free trial, but it only gives the basic information and there are lots of things on the free trial that you cannot access...so I told her that I would fund her subscription as a belated birthday gift(she said there was nothing she wanted at the time).
So there are two pairs of eyes looking for the people from our past.
Last week we had something of a quandary.
We found a family member - a baby on one of our ancestors census records...then five months later another baby came up for the same parents on a parish birth record.
This had us both scratching our heads.
We know that the records that are transcribed should be treated with some caution.
We could not see how someone could have two living babies within five months of each other.
After all back at the start of the twentieth century babies often died when born at full term.
We wondered if the father had had a liason with someone else...produced this baby and his wife had accepted it into the family.
We didn't know of the baby had been born to someone else in the family, who had then died and this family( who were well of by the standards of the day - they had a commercial business) had assumed responsibility for the child.
In the end we decided that the person transcribing the details from the parish register has misread the dates and transcribed 1903 as 1908.
We are assuming that this is what happened as the dates apart from the year are the same..But we cannot be sure and for a while we thought she was a 'cuckoo'.
Another misleading thing is where names are added. We start out looking fot John, to find out that in later documents he is John Thomas...or worse, Thomas John.
So though I am enjoying the searching, it can be confuddling and I sometimes pack up totally brain fagged.
And for those of you out there who ask 'what brain?...Shame on you!
I had in the past done a bit of this ancestral digging for the family on my husbands side who are in Australia.
I jotted those bits of information down in a little notebook.
This must be something in the region of ten(or maybe even more) years ago.
I found it interesting back then, so this free long weekend seemed a fine time to dig out the info that I had and add to it.
I also had a bit of information about Ma's side of the family too.
Back when I did the earlier searching there were people still alive who could furnish me with the bones of information.
Alas now these family members have gone to glory and I wish with all my heart I had asked them more stuff.
Once the free weekend was over I felt quite bereft not to be able to do some searching while himself was watching a crappy black and white version of Sherlock Holmes from nineteen hundred and frozen to death.
I sought out some of the BMD and Parish records, but they left me dangling for want of more evidence.
In the end himself said to me 'for goodness sake, subscribe to the web site' so that is what I have done.
I have spent a number of hours, got a square numb bum in the process, in order to find family on both sides.
Daughter subscribed to the two week free trial, but it only gives the basic information and there are lots of things on the free trial that you cannot access...so I told her that I would fund her subscription as a belated birthday gift(she said there was nothing she wanted at the time).
So there are two pairs of eyes looking for the people from our past.
Last week we had something of a quandary.
We found a family member - a baby on one of our ancestors census records...then five months later another baby came up for the same parents on a parish birth record.
This had us both scratching our heads.
We know that the records that are transcribed should be treated with some caution.
We could not see how someone could have two living babies within five months of each other.
After all back at the start of the twentieth century babies often died when born at full term.
We wondered if the father had had a liason with someone else...produced this baby and his wife had accepted it into the family.
We didn't know of the baby had been born to someone else in the family, who had then died and this family( who were well of by the standards of the day - they had a commercial business) had assumed responsibility for the child.
In the end we decided that the person transcribing the details from the parish register has misread the dates and transcribed 1903 as 1908.
We are assuming that this is what happened as the dates apart from the year are the same..But we cannot be sure and for a while we thought she was a 'cuckoo'.
Another misleading thing is where names are added. We start out looking fot John, to find out that in later documents he is John Thomas...or worse, Thomas John.
So though I am enjoying the searching, it can be confuddling and I sometimes pack up totally brain fagged.
And for those of you out there who ask 'what brain?...Shame on you!