Genealogy Chat

I am getting realy fustrated and might call it a night soon. I have been going through double checking some of my details up to date. Well i noticed on some of them i don't have dates of marriage or death. So i go to Ancestry type in there name and can't even find them. They all lived and died in the same area so surely it can't be that hard can it. Should i just give it a break for the night mmm will try again. Sorry just needed to ramble feel better and ready to look again now. Regards Jennie

If you are using the Ancestry search, it's the same as FreeBMD and incomplete. Better to trawl the beta indexes. Janice

Hi Jennie I would definitely suggest that you take a break for tonight, or even for a day or two. It's surprising what you find when you come back with a fresh pair of eyes. I'm doing three trees, and I try to do each line in rotation because that's the fairest way I can think of (lol!) - I will sometimes get really frustrated, leave that branch for a month or two, then come back and find a load of info that I couldn't see before! Or you could try posting some details here and some of us will try and help. Mandy :)

Thanks Mandy the details i have are John Armstrong Whitehead b.1900 Sculcoates 9d 182 he married a Doris Irvine i'm unsure of her DOB. There children are Maurice and Marlene. I cannot find when they got married or when John Whitehead passed away. But all the family have lived Sculcoates or Southcoates and it only stopped when Maurice moved to Lincolnshire to marry. Any help would be gratefully received. Many thanks Jennie

You'll just have to make the best use of that 14 day trial to ancestry you've just taken out. Use www.ancestry(.)co(.)uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx and trawl the images - NOT the index. remove ( )

Found this on Yorks BMD (searching 1890-1910 for D Irvine)- but it's a bit inaccurate (related-name, not in Hull area) for you to take on board without other checks... Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1902 Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Reference IRVINE Dora L Bootham York BOO/55/88 this looks like your 1900 birth on Yorks BMD... WHITEHEAD John A Drypool Hull DRY/75/95 Chrisitne

Possible children (1916-1936: presume not all - looks like at least 2 familes, one of which has second names), including Marlene... Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1926 WHITEHEAD Dennis G Myton Hull MYT/86a/9 WHITEHEAD Muriel Myton Hull MYT/86a/8 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1928 WHITEHEAD Olive Myton Hull MYT/90a/361 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1929 WHITEHEAD Edward W Myton Hull MYT/93a/490 WHITEHEAD Ernest Myton Hull MYT/92a/414 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1930 WHITEHEAD Brenda M Myton Hull MYT/95a/225 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1931 WHITEHEAD Norman F Myton Hull MYT/97a/428 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1932 WHITEHEAD Eric S Myton Hull MYT/100a/4 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1934 WHITEHEAD Eric Myton Hull MYT/103a/159 ***WHITEHEAD Marlene Myton Hull MYT/103a/54 [sorry - Ancestry suggests mmn MCCALLUM] WHITEHEAD Sheila Myton Hull MYT/102a/374 Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1936 WHITEHEAD Arthur H Myton Hull MYT/106a/250 WHITEHEAD Marion Myton Hull MYT/107a/257 Christine

Thanks Christine. None of them seem to match i think i am going to call it a night and may even give myself tomorrow off just to have a break. Maybe when i come back after some time off of here i will be able to get on better than i am doing now. Many thanks Jennie

Just noticed this on Genuki... Registration County : Yorkshire East Riding. Created : 1.7.1837. Abolished : 1.4.1937 (succeeded by Hull and Holderness districts). Sub-districts : Cottingham; Drypool; East Sculcoates; Ferriby; Hedon; Hessle; Newland; Southcoates; Sutton; West Sculcoates. GRO volumes : XXIII (1837-51); 9d (1852-1937). So it won't be called Sculcoates after 1937. Christine

How about: Yorkshire Birth indexes for the years: 1896 Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Reference IRVIN Doris E Hessle Hull HES/35/290 (from Ancestry - the E = Emily) And try 1923, June Qtr for a marriage! Christine