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Technical Help / Re: Backing up to an External Hard Drive
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 20:20 GMT (UK)  »
I'm interested in MS SkyDrive. Do you get 25GB free as part of your Windows license? At the moment I use Dropbox (2GB free online storage) and UbuntuOne (which comes free with the Linux Distribution I use and provides 5GB free). And I take your points about hard drives/usb sticks. It is down to personal experience.

Cheers
Tom

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: [Solved] Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 11:20 GMT (UK)  »
Roger,

Have looked at a few programs and will probably go with RootsMagic5. Will probably purchase it but will use the free version for as long as it serves my needs. Thanks for the advice!

Linda,

Thanks very much for that info! Very helpful :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 11:12 GMT (UK)  »
Ah ok thanks very much everyone - I feel invigorated and ready to start :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
"I knew my parents names and dates of birth.
Using GRO Indexes (pre-internet!) I found their births, and mother's maiden names.
That led me to my grandparents marriages.
And that got me back to 1901 and the census (1911 wasn't online then).
From that I got other members of the families, and dates & places of birth."

How did that lead you to your grandparents marriages?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:52 GMT (UK)  »
"1911census.co.uk is free, unless you want the transcriptions."

Do the transcriptions offer more info than what you can access for free?

"I knew my parents names and dates of birth.
Using GRO Indexes (pre-internet!) I found their births, and mother's maiden names.
That led me to my grandparents marriages.
And that got me back to 1901 and the census (1911 wasn't online then).
From that I got other members of the families, and dates & places of birth."

How did that lead you to your grandparents marriages?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:35 GMT (UK)  »
Carol - thanks so much :) Just the info I was after!


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Technical Help / Re: outlook and outlook express
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
In case you're unhappy with Outlook/Express, I would recommend Thunderbird. It has a similar interface but is much more powerful. You can download extensions and themes and it is all free - made by the Mozilla foundation, a not for profit organisation based on free, usable internet for all :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:26 GMT (UK)  »
So is it possible to do without ordering certs for each generation?

Do the findmypast and ancestry databases give you more info than the free ones?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Standard fam. history procedure questions
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 10:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies.

So everytime you want to find out information about a generation you know nothing about you have to order a cert? Doesnt it get incredibly expensive incredibly fast? ???

Would you be able to give me a general outline of what YOU do when tracing family history?

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