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I have just watched an interesting programme. Actor Brian Cox, tracing the stories of people from the Dundee area who went to India to work in  the jute trade.

My uncle recently died in his 90th year, and my cousins going through his effects have found photos and family tree info.
These include photos of myself from baby to age 6-7. Photos of my mother and her six siblings in their early years.
The tree info includes a couple of great uncles and aunts that I never knew about on my grandfather's side and info on my aunt's [his wife] side which I hadnt began to even look at.

Even the saddest of times sometimes brings forth a little joy.

I am busy today adding all the photo and info into the tree Db

NEVER ASSUME,ALWAYS CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK

I have recently discovered my grandmothers birthplace in Madeley Shropshire.

I was lead astray by my grandparents marriage certificate. They married in Manchester. It stated that her father's name was William and so I searched for a William and duly found one living not more than a mile away from where they married, with the same occupation for her father as stated on the cert. Not only that but a witness was her sister.

Go to the census before her marriage and her 'parents' and siblings and her 'sister' are all there except my grandmother whom I couldnt find anywhere.
My grandparents named their children after some of their siblings and parents including her 'father' William and 'sister.



So I wrongly assumed that this was her line and traced it back via the census' and IGI etc.

Now I have had to scrub this entire section of the tree [105 names] and enter a raft of new ones.

This time I am sure as I can be. But I wont be happy until her birth certificate arrives next week.

I should have known better, I searched all over Lancashire and surrounding counties for my grandfather's birthplace, only to discover in the 1901 census that he was born in Staffordshire.

I had assumed he was a Lancashire man, seing as all the children [including my father] were born there.


I am off to check the rest of the tree and connections.

I have always wondered where my paternal grandmother was born.
She lived, married and died in Manchester.

According to her wedding and death certs she was born about 1889/90.
I have looked for her first in Lancashire then the surrounding counties.
Looking at the various indexes there were several [17] possibilities.

I have just found her p o b in Madeley Shropshire in the 1911 census. traced back to 1901 and 1891 found her parents and siblings. Now to work back
Oh Joy, the search begins