Genealogy Chat

Kind of you Margaret

Hi all

I have the NBI on CD if anyone wants a look-up. Don't get excited, I've looked up hundreds and found about four!

But let me know if I can help.

Margaret

Strangely, it doesnt excite me as much as reading court trials for my Victorian ancestors. They seem too distant.

LOL, a Norman - the Le Strange family, given property at Acton Mound and Acton Scott in Shropshire (the land currently being used for the The Victorians programme on ag labs. The family took the name Acton. I and a very clever and tenacious cousin (bless him, he has pounded the streets of London from guild houses to records offices to churches now demolished for 10 years) followed our Actons backwards through apprenticeship records, rates books, Royal payments and wills to an aristo, and of course once you get one of them, you whoosh backwards through well documented family trees.

The best thing to come out of last nights one was the currency converter on the national archives website. I know now how rich some of my Hugenots were in the 1700's. Judging by what they left to their church I must be a major shareholder of Canterbury Cathederal.

I certainly own the crypt where the Hugenots worshipped!

i love WDYTA but after doing my family tree for 5 years its so funny hearing my friends saying how easy it looks. especially on the kevin whately one when one of the experts said 'why don't you pop over to the bank of england' and find out

can you imagine if all of us just popped in to all these places and immediately found all our information at once. i told my partner that there must be so many researchers and months of work just to get access to one record

The Parish register on the show was shipped out of Hertfordshire Archives (HALS) for the day.

Ive spent 6 years at it now and Ive got two brick walls which have been reinforced with iron bars and concrete. If I could get a few people running around after those Id be more than happy :)

I am back to the Norman invasion on one line and yet blocked at the baptism of my maternal GGFx4 in 1735 and GGMx4 at 1741.

Well, its always like that on there isnt it. You walk into Kew and blow me some nice young man is standing there with a huge book and guess what, the first page you open and theres your GGFx4 - LOL.

If I win the lottery I shall pay to have an army of skivvies doing all this for me :)

The National Burial Index can also be viewed on discs at your local library. It can be a bit of a palaver though, if their computer is having a hissy fit! I did enjoy seeing on last night's program how the NBI could be accessed painfree!

Ken

I noticed the crosses too. But, to be fair, maybe they were done many moons ago before we all knew better :)

As for white gloves...

A big bug bear of mine and I am well known for jumping up and down about it in my house...In fact when watching any of this type of programme the cry goes out 'Please let them be wearing gloves or mother will start!!!' :))))

Even did it when watching the Antiques Roadshow this weekend....Guy showing the object, a dressing case, was wearing white gloves and the presenter had her ungloved mitts all over it...I could feel his flinching!

Chris

What about the biro crosses next to the baptisms in the oldest baptism book in that church which they were looking at with bare hands (no gloves) makes you shudder.

LOL i know if only it was that easy eh?

Thanks for that.

LOL, yes it was a larf wasnt it, tap, tap tap and up comes GGMx5 - hmm.

It was the National Burial Index on Find My Past (pay to view).

Hi whilst watching the above last night i noticed the guy do a search on the internet for a burial location. Can anyone tell me what this site was pleaseThank you,