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I have just tried to help 2 people (on another site) searching for various records.

Both of them are aware of a marriage, for which an index listing is available.

Both of them need the groom's father's name to eliminate a possible duplicate but NEITHER of them has bought the certificate to find out the father's name or approximate age at marriage !!!!

What do they think I am....psychic ??? Yes, if you buy lots of certificates it mounts up BUT only as much as other hobbies cost !!!

Its worth the £7 every time to get on the right track,

I followed the wrong line once all cos i diddnt buy ONE cert!

The Mothers maiden name was.....GODDARD (or as i thought!)......it turned out to be GODHARD!

Never again!.....

Numpty Gerri <<<<<who learnt the hard way.

and several of us got told off the other week by someone for telling him to get certificates!

He just knew he didn't need them!


He even put up a thread about it.




sylvia

YOU CANT TELL SOME PEOPLE CAN YOU? I HAVE TOLD FEW PEOPLE THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE THEM FOR INFO.
BUT WILL THEY LISTEN NO.

HAZEL

I've not bought many certificates yet, but where I don't have them my tree is marked as 'Possibility' and then a note reminding me to get them. Nothing is sure until it's proved so by seeing it in writing.

I have gone down the wrong Road for not getting a marriage cert to confirm parents. Never again! £7 is worth every penny to stop you wasting hours on the wrong family

I agree.. I started my family tree by getting my 4 grandparents birth certificates, that got me going. If i get stuck i get another certificate.

People expect to be able to search their family history back to the Ice age for free at the computer. Not going to happen!!

My worst nightmare has been saving up to get a certificate then finding it's the wrong one! Grrr

one small hint

always ask a rellie before actually buying the cert

i found what i thought was an 'unknown' sibling of my grans

i told my mum after the cert arrived and confirmed my suspicions

'oh yes' she says, 'there was an uncle sid, he never married and lived in the almshouses' !!!

grrrrrr

why is it that a £7 cert jogs memories?

lol

Bev

I asked my father in law his grandfathers name he replied Gilbert.I thank god to this day I had already ordered father in laws father's birth cert because his name was Ernest William!!!!!! If i'd gone with gilbert I would have made a horrible mess of my tree.
Listen to what rellies say but NEVER EVER take it for gospel.

that is so true too samspade

which is why i couldnt find aunt lauras birth

she was called frances

and aunt may

she was fanny

and uncle ralph

he was harold

annie was ketura

mabel was mildred

james was henry

shall i go on???

lol
Bev

No thanks, Bev

spoilsport eric

was just getting into my stride there

lol

Bev

LoL
Can I have my go?apart from great grandfather Ernest I have in my family
Uncle George - William

Auntie Cherry - Charlotte

Auntie Maisie - May

Uncle Reuben - John

Uncle Mac - Horace????? (don't blame him)

Auntie Nolly - Still have absoultley no clue.

Cousin Cis - Elsie

Uncle Josh - Albert

And of course my gt gt grandfather George William or William George differ's on every cert i've brought.And every census return even used his wife's middle name and my gt grandmother's and she had 2! OOH he led me a merry dance.

LOL don't you just love your families?


Oh yes and my best mate is Bill his real name is Ian.Just aswell I've done his tree for my godson............

For many years growing up as a child, my father and his mother (my grandmother) would always refer to my grandfather (who was deceased) as Henry. So when I began my research here in the States for my grandfather's birth, I was looking for Henry--why couldn't I find it? After talking with my father in the early stages of my research, he said no his father's name was Robert.

It appears that my paternal grandfather had a habit of giving everyone a nickname; he would call some one Margaret or Tom and they gave him one that stuck!

Yes talk with relations but also confirm with actual documents as confirmation. I live here in the States so it's hard for me to look up actual documents or records over the pond so I would have to depend upon ordering all the records to find that one confirmation.

As I research I make a notation of "possible" records to my family's comments until I actually order the record for confirmation. As Halfcanuck does, this enables me to go back to the records as I'm researching that particular lineage and family and order the certificates.

If someone doesn't want to order the certificate for whatever reason, that's when I stop helping.

Joan

well joan you helped me and i got the certs

i have updated my thread on records so you could see

thanks again

bev

Bev,
Had exactley the same from my dad.I asked him for everything he knew. Not much love was the answer and I got the names of my paternal Gt Grandparents... After weeks looking and waiting for certs I proudly told him who I'd found only to get the answer Yes that's right!!!!!!
I was crushed, now I ask my auntie a more reliable source.

Haven't we all got them?

My entire 'Murphy' family had nicknames...

Frarnie, Tommy, Teddy, Maggie, Johnny, Spud and Dessie

Dessie died as Daniel born as Dan
Spud was born as Edmund, married as Edward and Died as Eddy!

Aunt Catherine was Anne
Uncle Bob is Graham
and Nanna Sarah is Mary!

I just wish they'd stick to one name!

Samspade,

Could your Aunt Nolly be Noele?

I seem to remember that Noele Gordon who was in "Crossroads" was called "Nolly".

Kath. x

Bev, Thanks for sharing that with me. Can't tell you how happy it makes me when I can help someone with their research and provide them direction for more pieces to the puzzle. Cause isn't what genealogy is all about--one big puzzle!