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crystalight
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Hi Sara,
I was going to reply more fully but can't put it any better than "lizdb" did,  really good advice, the main thing is to have fun whilst finding out things about the past. I have learnt so much - I still have many ancestors to find and have gone very "sideways" but you make contact with some really nice people along the way.
Good luck and Happy Hunting,
Crystal 
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Jayson
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Hi Sara, can you send me some of your good luck before you run out?!  Jayson
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KathMc
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Good idea Jayson. I'll take a little too.
Kath
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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA
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Cas (stallc)
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Agreed with all, the whole family pic can give details and insite into the family, that you cannot always gain from the direct line.
I have photographs from contacts, from non direct lines, including my gg granparents dated 1860 that I could not have gained if I had not widened the family circle. Also I JUST needed to know! Have also found those I was seeking in later census with married siblings/inlaws. Defo worth branching out ...so to speak.
Good luck
Cas
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Census information is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Davies, Roderick - Myddfai Carms Lloyd, Jones - Denbigh/Salop Bray - Cornwall Gibbons, Mordecai/Mort, Squire, Thomas, David/Davies, Joseph, Bowen, Lewis, Rees, Williams, Jones, Llewellyn, Morgan - Glam Gibbons, Timbrell, Beale, Ludlow - Glos/Wilts Shoemac, Squire, Keirle, Small - Somerset Berry, Baggot, Lee, Clayton - Lancs Baggot, Flynn -Ireland |
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lizdb
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thanks Crystal.
One thing I didnt mention. It is always worth looking for Wills. Often folk dismiss them ,and say 'he was only a ......, he wouldnt have left a will'. Very true in lots of cases, I know. But you dont know unless you look. And I have found some amazing information from wills over the years.
For example they often refer to each of the deceased's children, giving the married names of daughters. Sometimes referring to one as 'deceased' themselves, which you might not have known.
Or if they didnt have children then they can help piece together all sorts of neices and nephews.
They will give the person's address at the time the will is made (great if 'between' censuses). Then the address at death. Then when probate is granted you will get the addresses of the executors at that time (often a relation).
Then there can be all sorts of bonuses - other relations mentioned in the will etc.
Like all research in our field, you may get several wills and find some tell you nothing new, but then you get one that is an absolute gem and makes it all worthwhile. I have one in particualr.
I remember making a list of everyone on my tree that I had come across at ant time, with their date of death, and taking a day trip to Holborn, and looked for wills for them all. most were ag labs or the like, so my success rate was small. But those I got were worth it. And since then I try always to check wills when I get the chance.
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adee7
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Hi Sara,
I certainly agree with all that's been said here.
After years of searching for not only the dates and placenames for my Great-Grandparents here, and adding what I could of the times in which they lived, I had a lucky break recently.
Quite unexpectedly I came into contact, by e-mail, with someone researching his wife's family -- the direct descendants of my Great-Grandfather's sister. We have shared documents and pictures and copies of some very old letters that he acquired. Those letters written by my Great Uncle contain names, dates of family happenings, and descriptions of the schools they went to.
I agree that it is a person's choice as to how much to include. For me, it's much more exciting and interesting to have the personal information, including the social history of their times.
Regards,
Kathleen
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England and Belfast - GOFF, GOUGH, MATHERS, MOXHAM/MOXAM, OSMOND, PHILLIPS, WINDER, WYKES
Scotland - JOHNSTON, DORWARD, KIDD, KYD, RAMSAY, RAE
Canada - DeWOLFE, HALLADAY, HASKINS, HICOCK, JOHNSTON, OLD/OLDS
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Why didn't I find her before, and why did I suddenly think of her out of the blue tonight 