CADD- Starting out

[BekiC]

Hi,

Just starting out with researching my family name- CADD- going to speak to my Dad this weekend and hopefully get some useful information as I really don't have any at the moment! After that is it worth paying for a site like Ancestry? Or can you find out lots of information for free? I have read through the beginners thread on here and had a quick look, but with so little information at the moment it's a bit difficult to whittle down what is relevant.

Any guidance, or info from people about the name much appreciated!

Thanks
Beki

[stanmapstone]

Welcome to RootsChat.
According to "The Oxford Names Companion" Cadd is a variation of Cade, which is either (1) from the Old English personal name Cada (2) metatonymic occupational name for a cooper, or (3) a nickname for a gentle or inoffensive person.

Stan

[copperbeech5]

Hi Beki,

Welcome to Rootschat!

I would suggest that you start with the free sites, and get you hand in first, Freebmd.org.uk is a brilliant site, and folk here will be very happy to help!

Ask your Dad as much as you can, and take a note book and pen, write it all down - much of the stuff might not make sense now, but believe me... eventually it will all fall into place!

Best wishes,
Copperbeech5

[janan]

Hi Beki

Welcome to Rootschat

These free sites are also worth exploring

http://www.familysearch.org

www.freecen.org.uk

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

Jan

[candleflame]

The other golden rule is start with what you know from your generation and work backwards, marking everything you you know for definite as it is all too easy to spot someone's surname that is the same as yours yet find they are not actually part of YOUR tree, but just someone of the same name. That might not be such an issue with a name like Cadd but you imagine if you were researching e.g Jones, you could easily end up tracking the wrong line.
Enjoy the journey - its great fun.

[BekiC]

Thanks for the replies guys- looking forward to starting my research!

[sylvia (canada)]

Hi Beki

I've just seen this thread.

I'm also a Cadd.

Unfortunately, for our researching, Cadd is not that uncommon a name!

Despite the fact that they were mainly Ag Labs and Lace Makers, most of them had large families, in every generation!!

I don't know how far you have got in your research .............. but you may well find that your Cadds originated in Buckinghamshire. There was a "centre" for them in 3 or 4 small villages close to Milton Keynes ................... and I do know that some crossed over into Oxfordshire to marry


I hope you read this, and contact me. I may be able to help you




sylvia