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jk22
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Hello.
I'm wondering about putting an ad in a in order to catch if i can any Kemp, Barrett or Green descendents - most of my Victorian/Edwardian antecedents were in Kingston/New Malden,Surrey; West Ham/Essex and Greater London/Bethnal Green in the late 19th & early 20th century.
Which papers would be appropriate? Could someone advise please.
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Julie
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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Valda
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To advertise in a major London = equals national newspaper, since your interests are in the London area, will be expensive and probably unproductive for relatively common surnames such as Green (in particular - 19th most common surname in this country - there are currently about 145,856 Greens, but of course many more like me who are descended from Greens), Barrett (146th most common surname with only about 40,154 Barretts) and Kemp (the rarest ranked 262 with 26,376) most of whom wouldn't read the small adds of a national newspaper, or necessarily if they did have any knowledge or interest in their family history over 100 years age (now outside their own families' living memory). My Greens were in the East End of London but were like many East End Londoners bombed out in the Second World War lost most of their possessions and scattered across the country thereafter.
http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php
Local newspapers are not major newspapers and they struggle for circulation against local freebies e.g. Surrey Advertiser
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/
It would be far better and cheaper to join local family history societies that cover the areas you are interested
West Surrey FHS
http://www.wsfhs.org/
East London FHS
http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/eolintro.htm
and express an interest in their journals becuase you are more likely to get in contact with others researching the same surnames in those areas.
There is also GenesReunited
http://www.genesreunited.com/
and Rootschat itself since Google indexes thses pages and nowadays the Internet and/or Family History Societies are the places most people who are interested in their family history get in touch with others.
The population of this country which in the C20th has been increasingly mobile, is so large - at least 56 million, advertising in newspapers even local ones which cover a more rural area are probably likely to be an expensive option and less productive than other cheaper avenues where people who are interested in their family history are likely to look.
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Valda
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behindthefrogs
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I think you would have more chance if you put your names in the "Surname Interests Table".
The link is via "Your Surname Interests" found at the bottom of every page.
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Living in Berkshire. Origin Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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jk22
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Hello.
Thanks Valda and behindthefrogs: I had to ask!
I reckon the authority governing the census needs a wakeup call. The censuses ought to be available to all: at least with the ability to ask for contact or clarification re family lines.
Many thanks,
Julie
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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Valda
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The census images 1841-1901 are freely available to all at The National Archives in London. They are just not freely available on the Internet. The reason given is the cost of indexing each census, for Ancestry well over a million pounds per census - I have seen figures much higher. On the internet you pay for the indexing without which the whole of each census whether free on the Internet or not would be a complete nightmare to search. Ancestry and other companies who have indexed the censuses have to recoup their outlay and make a profit. The one census, the 1881 which is free on the internet to search, was indexed by volunteers from family history societies and funded by the Church of Latter Day Saints. From start to finish I think the project took about 10 years and was a massive outlay of effort by all concerned.
The authority 'governing' the censuses is The National Archives funded by British taxpayers money. If you wish to email them this is their website on information about censuses.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/default.htm?homepage=fr-census
The National Archives has records stretching back over 900 years with well over 50 miles of shelved records it is responsible for. The 1911 census alone takes up 2 and a half kilometres of shelving and contains 8 million individual household schedules. It costs a great deal of money to run The National Archives and it requires TNA to go into partnership with profit making firms in order to further digitalise more records and thus make more available to the general public.
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Valda
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meles
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There's a free newspaper, The Guardian, circulated in South West London (and possibly beyond) and delivered to most houses weekly in which I have seen several articles written by people looking for relatives. You could do worse than write something and e-mail it to them.
www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk
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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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jk22
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Thanks very much Meles.
Regards
Julie
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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jk22
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Thanks very much MBorrill!
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Julie
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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jk22
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Dear MBorrill,
I went to Channel 4's website but not able to locate the ... Channel 4's family tree service pages 174 & 175.
Can you help me out here please?!
Julie
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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jk22
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Thanks very much Maria.
Julie.
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ENGLAND: Ball, Beer, Bell, Green, Jacklin, Kemp, Miles, Mowat
WALES: Watkins
IRELAND: Finn, Fitzpatrick, McGrath, Walsh,
SCOTLAND: Chalmers, Cooper, Ferguson, Galloway, Patterson
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