Who When Where

Nan, In your first post you mention some records that you've looked at. You don't mention church warden accounts, which sometimes name individual parishioners. I was lucky enough to find a layout of pews in the Lyme Regis church warden accounts, which gave me the final piece in proving who was the f...

I echo what everyone else has said. You do need to look at your brickwalls every so often. Sometimes fresh eyes will see something different, or see a different perspective. Similarly with posting your brickwalls on a forum such as this, fresh eyes of fellow family historians can often be the differ...

It is often repeated that an unusual surname is easier to research. However how the surname is often misheard and recorded wrongly, or mistranscribed is another matter.

Sometimes you just have to be creative with your searches. On Ancestry you select "similar" and "sounds like" and "soundex". Not sure if you can filter searches on FMP, but by selecting "name variants", it tends to throw up a variety of spelling variations. Mi...

Death certificates, burial registers, and headstones all can be informative. I have made further links with all three, as well as "putting meat on the bones" of the bare BMD's of my ancestors. A good example is by looking at the actual images of the Temple Guiting burial registers, I was a...

Living in Australia, I can only dream of going to Record Offices and archives over there.
I'd love to be accidentally locked in to one or two of them......

I'm pretty much like you, Nan. Although I learned years ago a notebook is preferable to scraps of paper ( all of my research was in a big green plastic bag until my wife organized me lol). Keeping track of everywhere you've searched is important, to save time at a later date. It is a bit easier with...

Very fortunate from a genealogical perspective, Mick.
Being a child from a later in life marriage, I only ever knew one grandmother, the other three grandparents all dying at least 30 plus years before I was born.

Personally I agree with you, Valmo9. I don't put people into my tree unless there is a blood connection. I don't even put parents of "in-laws" as some others do. However, it is entirely up to individual tastes. If I had an adopted ancestor in recent generations I might be inclined to resea...

Very true, Guy. I'm not sure if I've mentioned on here or elsewhere, but according to Burke's Landed Gentry of 1847, my 4x great grandfather had no children. Only by looking at wills, land tax records, and even church warden accounts was I able to connect it all up. The church wardens very kindly le...