Post 1901 research

[KoKo]

Hi RootChatters,

Is there a recommended method for tracking down lost family members post the 1901 census?

I have managed to trace a few strands forward from 18th Century to the 1901 census but don't know how to bring these line to a current 2005 closure.

It is a frustrating case of " so near yet so far".

Your ideas and experience would be most gratefull to many novice roots chatters, myself included.

Thanks in anticipation

David

[Pollynation]

If you know what area they all lived you could try the electoral registers. They only list the adults, but from that you can find entries of birth etc in that area.

Also you could then look at parish records for that area too.

good luck with your search
best wishes
Pauline

[KoKo]

Thanks Pauline,

I didn't know that the Electoral Registers were available.  Can these be viewed on line? If so how and where?

Sorry to keep asking questions, but it's the only way to learn!!

Thanks


David

[Pollynation]

I dont know if they are online anywhere. ( if so i've not found them)

You normally phone the main library in the town. Like at Doncaster theyre at the Central Library. You use the computors and reader machines to view them. I have been searching the 1930's there. Unfortunately it means a lot of travelling sometimes. Also this might sound morbid but gravestones are a good way to find information too, so look at the churchyards. From them you can get death certificates and hopefully next of kin details.

best wishes
Pauline

[KoKo]

Thanks Pauline,

It looks like I will be taking a few trips into the Derbyshire Dales in the weeks and months ahead.  My wife will be pleased....I don't think!!!!

Thanks again

David

[Pollynation]

take a picnic , it's best to go in summer! A shopping bribe might work too!

good luck and best wishes
Pauline

[Wendi]

Hi David and a little bit of a belated welcome to Rootschat, glad to see you are "getting into it"

I have found one way to take a great leap forward is to look for deaths.  A death certificate can tell you who registered the death(sometimes a family member) where they lived when they died, all sorts, might even lead you to a will. 

Ancestry.com have some of the Deaths from 1984-2000 indexed, as well as some to 1984 when they split the records so they are always worth checking.

Good luck
Wendi

[KoKo]

Thanks Wendi,

I have just joined ancestry so it will be a good test.

Cheers

David

[Timbottawa]

There's always the hard slog of 1837online.  If you have, say, a 10-yr-old child in the 1901 census, you can search for marriages from 1910-1920.  This works well unless the surname is common.  At this point you need to order the certificate to get the other spouse's name (which also serves to confirm you've got the right marriage, through the father's name).  Then, thanks to the introduction of mother's maiden names from July 1911 (or was it 1912?) it's quite easy to trrace births.  Once you have a birth with the correct surname and mother's maiden name, say in 1915, you can search for marriages in 1935-45 ... and so on.

I've done a couple of generations this way.

Cheers
Tim