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Topic: Don't be deceived - Research isn't always easy! (Read 13482 times)
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Lydart
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Great Granny Williams, the Dorset button maker
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But we DO have tame experts at hand ... they are RootsChatters !
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Jamaine
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Digging up the dead and annoying the living...
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I would like to add to Mogsmum's original point by saying that I have heard Nick Barrett give an excellent talk about (amongst other things) the way that television presents our little hobby. Of course it is condensed, watching someone researching is probably not much up from watching paint dry, so it has to be viewable to a sizeable audience - some of whom will not be remotely interested in genealogy.
However, the down side is that apparently there are a large number people out there who think that they can wander into the Family Records Office and ask for their 'brown envelope'. 
Perhaps better that than not generating more people to the subject...
John
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meles
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What you learn here! Did not know that there were earlier censuses, so I Googled
"Pre-1841 Census" and found an 1801 Census in Yarmouth, and bingo! a new relation!
Thanks, John!
meles
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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kerryb
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Well done Meles!  I've got some 1821 and 1831 for a village in Sussex and that too allowed me to see some of relations a bit earlier!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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Gadget
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Holy Island - Pilgrims' Path
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I've got some of the early ones for parts of London (found OHs ancestors on it) and, a great prize, one of 1792 for Balmaclellan in Scotland.
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BettyofKent
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Ray & Frank
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This looks useful:
Census Schedules & Listings 1801-1831
An introduction & guide.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/working-papers/MW-RW-BM.pdf
It lists what was taken & where, & where copies can be found, for many counties.
Betty
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KENT: Stutely - Wittersham & Stone Padgham - Wittersham Wanstall - Northbourne Taylor - Ringwould & Ash Skinner - Deal Bushell - Walmer Spain - Walmer Also Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand. Cohen - Birmingham "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov. |
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peteseaton
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Seaton Genealogy
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Over on the BBC Family History message board, we get a number of newbies each time a new series of WDYTYA starts. Some stay the distance, but most seem to disappear when they realise how much work is involved.
I realise that the programmes can't show every minute of every search, but the way it's done is very misleading, they should make it clear just how time-consuming & frustrating it can sometimes be when you don't have a tame expert on hand!
Betty
well, i logged in and said that ive traced my tree back to 1540 in scotland.
then some smart arse piped up and accused me of getting it all off the internet and thought he was giving me advice, err been there, done that
http://forum.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare.com/tm.asp?m=110
anyway, not it isn't that easy, i began with one name, and very little info.
the best advice is to take your time, and keep on checking and cross-referencing, and go to the churches and look at their records.
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kerryb
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Hi peteseaton
There's nothing wrong with getting your info off the internet anyway so blow that smart arse a big raspberry
Now as parish registers are made more available online it is feasible to get back a long way without stepping outside your front door, just not as much fun
When I started 3 years ago I got a lot of my tree from the IGI etc online and have spent the intervening years amending, correcting and adding to. It was a good place to start and totally agree with your about taking your time, checking and cross referencing.
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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BettyofKent
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Ray & Frank
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Ooohhh no no Pete, not that board, this is the real BBC Family History Board
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbhistory/F2233810
I hope we have got better manners than that on there!!
Betty
Over on the BBC Family History message board, we get a number of newbies each time a new series of WDYTYA starts. Some stay the distance, but most seem to disappear when they realise how much work is involved.
I realise that the programmes can't show every minute of every search, but the way it's done is very misleading, they should make it clear just how time-consuming & frustrating it can sometimes be when you don't have a tame expert on hand!
Betty
well, i logged in and said that ive traced my tree back to 1540 in scotland. then some smart arse piped up and accused me of getting it all off the internet and thought he was giving me advice, err been there, done that http://forum.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare.com/tm.asp?m=110anyway, not it isn't that easy, i began with one name, and very little info. the best advice is to take your time, and keep on checking and cross-referencing, and go to the churches and look at their records. |
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KENT: Stutely - Wittersham & Stone Padgham - Wittersham Wanstall - Northbourne Taylor - Ringwould & Ash Skinner - Deal Bushell - Walmer Spain - Walmer Also Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand. Cohen - Birmingham "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov. |
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meles
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I've just had a look - blimey, what a ....robust... lot they are!
We're much more polite and (with one or two exceptions) sensitive to others' views
meles
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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