Random Find! ( Search the internet regularly! )

[Hodgkiss]

I have gotten in the habit of checking sites like google and ebay most days for information regarding my family, as you never know what will come up.

I was searching for pwllheli ( where alot of my family came from ) on Ebay just to see what came up.

To my suprise i came across a picture of a girls school group with a woman who looked remarkably like my Great Great Grandmother holding a pan, ( my gggran was the cook at the school ).

I already own one picture of her so i know what she looks like)

The picture was not of high resolution, so i put bid in, won and recieved it today.

I scanned it in at high resolution, and it is 100% my GGGrandmother. So im very excited and amazed.

So just to say, never give up and keep searching, its amazing what come up.

[Linda_J]

Hi Hodgkiss

Congratulations on that find and how very true it is to regularly search or google for any thing new on the internet.

Many people do not realise or have forgotten that a sinple search of a full name enclosed in quotes can some times strike lucky.

Linda

[Jeuel]

How exciting!

I can't emphasise enough that you should google.  I've found so much - including a photo of the house my gt grandfather was born in (its a gorgeous listed building) various parish transcriptions, mention of my gt x 3 grandfather as a witness in a trial and all sorts..

Sometimes you find something when you are looking for something else. Happy hunting!

[tkgafs]

My wife having just found out some of her ancesters came from Canisbay in the very north of Scotland, googled it and the first thing that came up was a photo of her 3G granfathers gravestone, to say we were surprised would be putting it mildly

Tkgafs

[Marmalady]

Googling can bring despair as well as joy!

I thought i had my James Needham more or less sorted -- father had moved to Liverpool, married and produced children. James had at some time returned to the family home area of Derbyshire for his own marriage & children

UNTILL i found a copy of a will on-line of a Sarah Wardle leaving money to the children of her brother James Needham - including another Sarah

It was definitely the right family - but i didnt have a Sarah amongst Jame's sisters or children!

Further reseach led me to discover that I had attached my James to the wrong set of parents back in Liverpool. I then found the birth of a Sarah to the "correct" set of parents -- but so for no James to these parents! And still no Sarah as a child of James.

The search continues....

[Nick29]

I put my mother's family name and the county that her mother was born into Google, and I found something written by the son of my grandfather's brother, giving an account of how life was during his lifetime (from about 1918 to 2005).  Not only was it a fascinating account of life in those times, but it also contained pictures of relatives that I didn't have pictures of   

You should Google regularly ...... you never know what will turn up ! 

[Billyblue]

I put my name into Google a few months back and discovered that I am a long legged African American chanteuse!  Good looking too!  which I'm not, on either count.

             

Dawn M

[Rishile]

I totally agree.  Keep searching - even if you've searched before.

I also search Google Books regularly.  It's amazing how much can be found on there.  Some of my rellies were lawyers, JPs etc and there is always something new being added about them.  Some of them wrote papers which are only just finding their way onto the internet.

Also, be imaginative about your search.  Try searching for the wife of the person you are looking for.  I did this (a bit by accident) and found out a lot about the husband although the wife was the one with the peerage.

Rishile

[Lydart]

BINGO !     Browsing through RC I came across this thread ... idly put in my fathers name, and found an obit I knew nothing about in the London Gazette !

Thanks Hodgkiss ...