Genealogy Chat

call me scrooge if you like, i'd rather not know than pay someone? we all pay enough as it is with subscriptions and the like, then for certificates internet and so on????
i agree with others the best researchers are on these boards

Hi Karen

I did the same as you asked for help on the boards. All these kind people tryed to find him for me but without success. He seemed to vanish with no trace.

I then paid a researcher to look for my grandfathers death I thought this person will find him she specialised in the London area.

I received a report giving the areas she checked and believe me she left no stone unturned, but at the end of the day she could find no death or burial for him.

So I have put him on the back burner for now and moved on to another part of the family.

I am in a similar situation.
I have a brickwall and am fed up going round in circles and getting nowhere with this particular person. Over the years I have posted for help on here, and whilst people have gone out of their way to look here, there and everywhere, for which I am very grateful, I've actually got no further in finding him or anything about him.

I have also thought about going to a Professional Researcher.
Before doing anything about it, though, I read up on here to see what others think, and I've read many a thread on other similar Family History message boards, and found that, on the whole, it is not recommended.
The reason? That WE have access to just about everything a Professonal researcher would have access to. And that if we already possess a fair amount of experience at doing our tree ie we are not complete beginners, then we KNOW what we're looking for and how to look for it ,as regards Census Returns, Parish Records, bmd's etc etc. so why pay someone else to look at the same stuff we've been searching through over the last X number of years?

Maybe I shouldn't mention this, but over on another site, the exact same question was asked as yours.
The person's family background is complicated to say the least, one of the most complicated I've ever read of on any board.......BUT, I am hooked, as many others are, at continually going back to read that thread, purely because the sheer amount of help people are offering, the amount of theories they are coming up with, the amount of research they are doing to try and get to the bottom of the tangled web is truly amazing.
No researcher could, or would, go that amount of trouble, and even if they got vaguely near uncovering what has been uncovered, it would cost an absolute fortune....thousands upon thousands.

So, you see, I think it pays to put it to the people on here to come up with as much as you are ever going to get.

Just my two penn'orth.

K

Wow... putting me off a bit.
Everything I have done so far is supported with certicates etc, even devised my own little log to track what I have / need etc.
I hate to be beaten, I really want to know what happened to him.

Hi Sheila, am looking in Oxford.

Hi Claire, I have tried posting on here a couple of times, and everyone has been very helpful, but still no end to the mystery or my frustration unfortunately.

Have you trie posting the info on here?

One of my contacts paid a pro to research her tree. The information came back 11 weeks later, cost her £275 & the report said that what we'd found was probably correct

Where are you looking I have twice used a lady in London I did find her through the Family tree magazines Sheila

Its so frustrating isnt it! I really want the satisfaction of solving it myself, but every time I try a new route I hit another brick wall.

Know how you feel Karen. Thinking about going down the same path myself. I have become so frustrated with my great grandmother who seems to have hardly ever told the truth.

Thanks Jill
Will dig out the latest copies and have a look.

Have you checked the pages at the back of those Family History magazines? That's where I'd look first.

Jill

I am giving up on re-going over the same old ground looking for my gg uncle, and need the help of a professional. Can anyone recommend anyone?
Thanks