Four weeks ago our family thought we were only from Scottish background and only had a birth certificate of 1902 for grandfather, a soldier born Stirling. (we have had previous information through medals, and other history, and my research 10 years ago) I then found the grandfather and great grandfather in the 1911 census. Gt. grandfather as a soldier on a military base in Aldershot with his wife and her maiden name as a match to our present sir name. It gets a bit complex here as our grandfather changed his sir name to his mothers maiden name as his father left him for good when he was 12. The census record also had the step son, and the two other sons and this great grandfather's second wife. I found this great grandfather's birth cirtificate and marriage certificate to his first wife who we new had died shortly after giving birth to her first son, that being the son born in Stirling . So going back a generation with detale from census and marriage cert., this placed his birth at Camolough, and his father as a policeman. From there our war researcher found the police records of the great grandfather, based on no other near matches in age, and the Co Armagh as the area of registration as match to sons birth county. From there I found a marriage certificate based on date of marriage from police records, and place of work in police records, as one of the places of work being Co Cavan.
