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What is the most important component to a family history website?
| Family tree |
| Stories of your ancestors |
| Photographs |
| Places your ancestors lived |
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kerryb
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Hi Jean
Sounds like you need to join the NOF club, your website sounds interesting already!!!! 
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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Guy Etchells
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There is no definitive answer to your question; it is much like asking what is the most important part of a car - the body, engine, wheels or brakes.
The answer is all the parts are equally important as they all interact to form the whole.
No one part is stands alone without the others to interact with.
Cheers
Guy
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kerryb
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No but to different people different parts of their family history will be what they wish to put the emphasis on, for instance someone with a lot of old photos will want to show them off.
I don't have many photos so for me the important bit is writing my ancestor's stories and making them live again.
Just like for my brother, a mechanic the most important thing in a car is the engine and how it performs, for me, how good are the brakes when I meet a 4x4 in a narrow Sussex lane.
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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kerryb
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Hi Jean
I don't fullly agree with that, stories can be written from all the information you gather about an ancestor, ie census returns, birth, marriage and death certificates and the other information you might find such as newspaper reports, settlement certificates, other legal papers you might find etc.
You can then piece together at least something about their lives.
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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bhaven
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Hi Kerry
You are right there is a lot of information out there to put a story together, I am not that good at finding newspaper articles, obits etc., just don't know where to look for some of the information. I was lucky as my mom gave me lots of insight into my family history which I could never have known through census records alone. For eg. Her mother had 3 out of wedlock children & we might never know the reason if the story had not been passed down and the "real" father is known.
This site has been the most helpful source of information for me with relatives who travelled outside of England.
Jean
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kerryb
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One of my favourite sites that I use on a regular basis, usually when I bored is the a2a site http://www.a2a.org.uk/ access to archives. I just put in a surname, the likely record office and see what comes up and have had some amazing finds on it.
You don't always need to go to the record office either to see the original record, what is on a2 a is sometimes enough.
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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familyman1
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