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Offline chocaholic

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Tracing family from then to now
« on: Sunday 04 June 06 17:02 BST (UK) »
I know its difficult but how would you go about tracing a name from the early 1800's to present day?
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Re: Tracing family from then to now
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 04 June 06 19:38 BST (UK) »

Best to use parish records until 1841, and then continue with OPRs but also use the census records to 1901

Anything more recent than 1901 has to be via the GRO BMD indexes.

Marriages on the indexes are relatively easy to find since the spouses name is also mentioned.   Finding the kids is the hard part since the indexes do not mention parents names.

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BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Re: Tracing family from then to now
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 04 June 06 20:20 BST (UK) »
I managed to get one line of the family to the
1940s by using electral records, and trade indexes
(not easy)!

The electoral records for my town are in the
reference library. so you have to be on the spot.

Jinks
Ashton Lancashire
Eccles Lancashire
Fletcher Lancashire
Harwood Church/Darwen
Jackson Staffordhire/Worcestershire
Jenkinson Cockerham
Marsden Hoghton Lancashire
Mercer Lancashire/Yorkshire
Pye Wyresdale
Singleton Lancashire
Swarbrick  Longridge
Watt Scotland/Lancashire

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Re: Tracing family from then to now
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 04 June 06 23:07 BST (UK) »
The obvious starting place is the IGI index:--

http://www.familysearch.org

Check for baptisms etc.

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Sussex: Floate, West
Kent: Tuffee
Cheshire: Gradwell
Lancashire: Gradwell

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Re: Tracing family from then to now
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 04 June 06 23:39 BST (UK) »
Use familysearch.org to find children, and the childrens' marriages, and then find them on the censuses, then just use the censuses to trace forward to 1901.

Andrew
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