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Question: What Country is your main research centred on ?
England and Wales   -929 (54.5%)
Ireland   -303 (17.8%)
Scotland   -289 (17%)
Emmigrants   -116 (6.8%)
Immigrants   -68 (4%)
Total Votes: 1160

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Rabbit B
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #330 on: Saturday 07 November 09 23:02 UTC (UK) »
 Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Conning/London
Wareham/Winchester
Hart/Cambridgeshire
Burns/Byrne/Liverpool and Ireland
Nibbs/London
Brealey/Staffordshire
Melbourn/Melbourne/Cambridgeshire
Hoyle/Liverpool
AdkinsGen
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #331 on: Saturday 07 November 09 23:20 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: alllegs on Saturday 07 November 09 19:01 UTC (UK)
Paula,

The name William Williams is banned from RC - he causes me many a headache and sleepless night - my great grandfather William Williams is on the 1891 census in Durham - born WALES - talk about a needle in a haystack.  Unfortunatly he dies in 1895 and I can't trace him any further back...

Legs
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See I don't know anything about Welsh names.  My great-great aunt married a William Williams. I remember seeing it on a family tree and thinking it was an odd name.  It's very common?

ETA: Sorry I have no money to pay the fine.  Here's a fun smiley instead ->  Shocked
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Lugg, Roles - Glamorganshire
Roles - Somerset
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #332 on: Sunday 08 November 09 00:59 UTC (UK) »
Mostly Scotland for my Grandfathers family and Scotland and Ireland for my Nans family.  Other members born in Scotland moved to England and one of my Nans sister plucky lady moved to Canada? for a while as a bride to a Gold miner and came home via the Red Cross with 3 children, in payment? Grin
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Scotland.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'may
Edinburgh/Aberdeen: Laidlaw,Brown,Dean/Barron/Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #333 on: Sunday 08 November 09 05:09 UTC (UK) »
A while ago I naïvely did a search for "William Williams" births on FreeBMD, anywhere in England and Wales, any time. I was gobsmacked - There was only one match!!! I kid you not!

Births Dec 1855   (>99%) William    Williams        HaverfordW    11a   585

Then I noticed my error...

Surname:William
First name(s):Williams

Be honest - anybody here who hasn't made that mistake? Embarrassed
Pete

(I checked the original scan - William is definitely in the surname column)
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Researching Welsh and Irish family history from SE Asia...
Browne: Mallow, Co. Cork (1895-1935) + Cahir, Co. Tipperary (1860-1895)    Purtell: Cahir (1860-1895)    Fanning: Cashel (to1886)
Corbett: Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (1860-1935)     Sweeney: Mitchelstown  (1860-1935)
Griffiths: Llanelly, Carmarthenshire (1837-1934)     Reynolds: Llanelly (1837-1901)
Williams: Llanelly (1837-1934)     Lewis: Ton Pentre, Glamorganshire (1837-1901)
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #334 on: Sunday 08 November 09 11:41 UTC (UK) »
Oh I had joy like that! Angry
A fairly uncommon name, Denchfield.
Traced the Denchfield family through the ages, chasing them all round North Marston Bucks, which seems to have been their patch, most of them called John, most married to gals called Elizabeth or Mary...then the line daughters out, and the son has Denchfield as a first name....
You can guess after putting it in surname, how many times Denchfield went there first and I couldn't find Baker Denchfield...then realised it should be Denchfield Baker... Grin
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Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks
elinga
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What Country is your research ?
« Reply #335 on: Monday 09 November 09 20:34 UTC (UK) »
Hi
I come from Scotland and have only been doing this for 3 weeks but so far I have found out a lot!
when I started at first I was roped into doing searches and paying out money then only to find it was the wrong people but I am learning  more.
my major problem is , I am in Iceland.
have got myself so involved I am going to go there for Christmas to try and find out what I am unable to do online.
the other problem is ancesters come from Northern Ireland , Carrickfergus and Carncastle respectively and am finding it very difficult to search online for them.
I realy think I need to go there one day but it wont be for a while meanwhile I will just need to use the expertise of sites like this to give me ideas!
so far I have been helped
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Orr, Adair, McCafferty,McCrorie and McCrory, Ayrshire Scotland and Northern Ireland
Millar,Strachan, Lewis,Linn, Arnott, Scott,Kerr,McKinnon , Jeffrey or Jaffrey,Lambie, Findlay and Meechan Ayrshire Scotland.
Rabbit B
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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #336 on: Monday 09 November 09 23:36 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: elinga on Monday 09 November 09 20:34 UTC (UK)
Hi
I come from Scotland and have only been doing this for 3 weeks but so far I have found out a lot!
when I started at first I was roped into doing searches and paying out money then only to find it was the wrong people but I am learning  more.
my major problem is , I am in Iceland.
have got myself so involved I am going to go there for Christmas to try and find out what I am unable to do online.
the other problem is ancesters come from Northern Ireland , Carrickfergus and Carncastle respectively and am finding it very difficult to search online for them.
I realy think I need to go there one day but it wont be for a while meanwhile I will just need to use the expertise of sites like this to give me ideas!
so far I have been helped

Hi elinga,

Welcome to Rootschat, I hope that you have many happy hours on this site with the terrific crowd of lovely people that belong to it!

It shouldn't really matter where you are in the world, the internet is international, and almost everything can be found on line these days!

There are a lot of helpful people on the Irish parts of this site.  They will help you I am sure!  You can even use a mobile to access the net these days, so no worries! 

You will be fine!  Take it slowly and be thorough, those ancestors are not going anywhere!

Happy hunting

Rabbit B  Grin
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Conning/London
Wareham/Winchester
Hart/Cambridgeshire
Burns/Byrne/Liverpool and Ireland
Nibbs/London
Brealey/Staffordshire
Melbourn/Melbourne/Cambridgeshire
Hoyle/Liverpool
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