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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Yorkshire (North Riding) => England => Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests => Topic started by: rcuser on Wednesday 04 July 07 20:24 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I am looking for information please about the parents and siblings of Arthur Robert Rossiter baptised on 24 JAN 1864 at Bilsdale Midcable, Yorkshire.
The IGI gives parents as William Rossiter & Elisabeth ( maiden name unknown) but I have no further details about them.
Any information would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
Best wishes
rcuser
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His birth is registered Dec Qu 1863 Stokesley 9d 447 if you wanted to order the certificate
Barbara
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Can I ask whether you are just taking Arthur Rossiter entries ad hoc from the IGI records and posting messages re: info as I notice you have a similar request on the London, Lincolnshire and Gloucester boards and possibly others
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,239.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,242455.msg1320457.html#msg1320457
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,242525.msg1321109.html#msg1321109
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Hi Carole,
Thanks for your posts. Apologies for the delay in replying but I was taken into hospital unexpectedly late yesterday evening.
I am doing a one family study of the Rossiter family and have a database of about 19,000 Rossiters and Rossiter related individuals.Because of the size of the project and because of my limited income I am unable to purchase certificates or other aids simply because of the cost.If I had bought certificates for every case I researched @ £7 per certificate the cost would be beyond my means.
I collect my information from a variety of sites ( Familysearch.org/FreeBMD/various regional or county BMD sites/Ancestry/Genforum/Rossiter Genealogy Message Board/ Cousin Connect/ Genes Reunited/ British Genealogy/ Rootsweb Worldconnect/ British Genealogy etc). I also contribute to these forums helping fellow Rossiter researchers where I can.
Some of the information are loose ends in so far as the line has not been pursued back to the point where there are no records to consult. From time to time I check through my database identify loose ends that I want to follow up on and I use the above sites to take each line back as far as I can. When I am stuck I post queries on Rootschat.
Most of the time I get successful replies; other times despite all our efforts it still ends up being a dead end and I just have to accept that for the time being until something new turns up which might be never.I recently posted a couple of cases for the name "Eugenie Rossiter" but wasn't able to pursue it further as they couldn't be found in records. I've had the same problem with names like Aaron Rossiter, Moses Rossiter, Caleb Rossiter etc
Because the Rossiter family is a big one and because the Rossiters recycle the same Christian names it is sometimes necessary to do various posts to identify who belongs to who as it can be the case that Rossiters of the same name & age are born in the same place. Census requests often sort these cases out.
From time to time when I find unusual names e.g. Eugenie, I do general IGI searches to find all the possible cases and check them in my database. Because of my wide sources I usually have most of them. I research the rest through the sources above and the few I can't do anything with I post on Rootschat.
I research worldwide (USA, Canada, Australia/ New Zealand /India etc) so only my unresolved UK queries come to Rootschat. Sometimes in the pursuit of one family a Rootschat posting uncovers another family which I do not have like the Daniel Rossiter and wife Hannah which has been posted.This sparks another query for me.
As for Arthur, I did an IGI search to make sure I had them all.I checked all the cases on the IGI in my database and whittled the shortlist down to about 4 which I could not progress. These are the 4 cases I posted.
I've posted this message as a reply on all 4 threads.
Hope this clarifies the situation and hope you will be able to help.
Best wishes
rcuser
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Hi
If you are doing a one name study - you may find it more helpful to buy an annual subscription to Ancestry which costs about £69.95 - this would lessen the amount of help you are asking for census lookups from others who have an Ancestry subscription as it would enable you to carry out these searches yourself
Whilst it is up to the individual concerned as to whether they choose to become involved in your study, I personally feel it is an imposition asking people to spend their time and efforts on one surname searches which may not even be your direct bloodline
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Whilst it is up to the individual concerned as to whether they choose to become involved in your study, I personally feel it is an imposition asking people to spend their time and efforts on one surname searches which may not even be your direct bloodline
Hi rcuser,
I for one would be more than happy to help, as I'm sure would many others!
So sorry you had to go to into hospital unexpectedly and I hope you are feeling better now! :-\
Kindest regards and best wishes,
Pels :)
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Hi rcuser
I agree with what Pels says, It's up to the invidual wether to help on one name studies I for one would gladly help. Hope you are feeling better
ricky
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I was taken into hospital unexpectedly late yesterday evening.
I am unable to purchase certificates or other aids simply because of the cost.If I had bought certificates for every case I researched @ £7 per certificate the cost would be beyond my means.
Hi rcuser,
Sorry to hear you had to go to hospital, hope you are feeling better now.
We all have this trouble about deciding whether or when to buy a certificate, I dread to think what my total expense in that respect has been over the last twenty years, doesn't bear thinking about really!
Sometimes though, buying one is the only way to find what we need to know, which is why I gave you the reference number below as I couldn't find any other mention of the family in that area and thought it would help. I didn't realise you were looking for so many!
Good luck with your research,
Barbara
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Hi
If you are doing a one name study - you may find it more helpful to buy an annual subscription to Ancestry which costs about £69.95 - this would lessen the amount of help you are asking for census lookups from others who have an Ancestry subscription as it would enable you to carry out these searches yourself
Whilst it is up to the individual concerned as to whether they choose to become involved in your study, I personally feel it is an imposition asking people to spend their time and efforts on one surname searches which may not even be your direct bloodline
Unfortunately from my perspective Ancestry doesn't always give the best results and may only tell you the answer if you know what the question is. That's why I use so many different sources.
The information I get from Rootschatters even though it is often not my direct line is often useful to other researchers as I disseminate information learned through various forums and through e-mails. We also have to remember that genealogical information disappears very quickly. The living die taking their family history with them. Often I find lines that either no-one is researching or there is one lone researcher. Often too, I have more information that the "official" recorder.
Future generations may not be able to research their lines because vital information was not recorded by earlier generations.Once the living go, there is no opportunity to ask questions or to seek clarifications.
I personally only realised what information I had lost when my parents and grandparents died as I did not start my genealogy work until after they had all gone and by then it was too late. Fortunately, others had some of it and I was able to reconstruct the family line for the most part but it will never be completely accurate.
So I spend my time collecting pieces to put into the Rossiter genealogical jigsaw not only for myself but for others now and in the future. My own daughter isnt really interested in genealogy at the moment but when I'm gone that may change and if it does she will have as complete a genealogy as I could give her to start from.
Collecting this information is my choice but it is only someone else's burden if they choose to make the same choice. When I post on Rootschat, I am simply asking for help.I am very conscious that I am making "requests". I try to supply as much information as I can. I ask politely and am suitably grateful when helped. I am also quite happy to share info and help fellow rootschatters.
Sometimes when I look at one of my query threads I will see that it has been visited by 50 people but there may be only 1 reply. I am very grateful for that 1 reply and it doesn't matter to me that the other 49 did not contribute.
If people cannot or don't help it's their right..and your right.. to take that choice especially as they..or you.. are doing research of their own. After all is does take time and effort and it the time and effort is yours then you are the one to decide whether or not it is all worth it.
I have no wish for my queries to be a burden to anyone. So if I post, please feel free to ignore it. In that way you will be happy and I'll be pleased for you. If the information is out there I'm sure I'll find it one way or another.
Best wishes
rcuser
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Hi Ecneps/ricky1/Pels,
Thanks for the good wishes and the help.
I'm on the mend. Fortunately, it doesn't stop me from typing so there's no escape from my queries. LOL!!
Hope that you all have a good day.
Best wishes
rcuser