Hi,
I’m new here, and new to genealogy so please bare with me. I’m particularly interested in the Jackson family tree.
The oldest relative I have identified is John Jackson born 9th July 1763, in Whitby Yorkshire. He married Elizabeth Robinson, on the 4th April 1785. They had 11 children, I am descended from Robert Jackson their 10 child.
I would be great full of any help I can get in this cause.
Regards,
Graham Jackson
Graham, I do not want to discourage a new researcher but I would urge caution with your research. To avoid disappointment at a later date try to find at least three separate sources of information for each event or record you find (by this I mean different types of records not the same record from different suppliers). Each separate record will help validate your conclusions.
It is very easy to trace ancestry back through the centuries but difficult to accurately trace ancestry.
Many people, especially these days with easy online access to records latch on to the first record they find only to find that person died before they married or could not be their ancestor as a brother or sister was born a few months before or after the one they assumed to be correct.
If you are dealing with common names you may have to run a number of families in parallel to exclude those who cannot be yours.
Of course you could have constructed an accurate tree quickly back to the mid 18th century in which case, well done and onward through parish registers, taxes, wills and testaments post mortem, etc., through the middle ages.
Cheers
Guy
