Genealogy Chat

Have hjust ordered a batch of certs,one from the GRO (est 14th June) and seven from a local office,estimate 13th June!!!!! Apparently it's the busy time of year,so how come it's so quiet on here?Until these certs arrive i'm kind of stuck for answers to a few things. Glen

Perhaps it's quiet on here because everyone is waiting.................. Merry

English schools are out as well i think,thankfully not up here though. I have had replies to 3 messages this week re tree matches,all saying the same thing 'this part of my tree was constructed by........'.I have access to the tree that they all stem from and let's just say it's wrong in a few places!!!! According to the tree owner 2xgg/f had his first child at nine and his last at 74,but died three years before the birth of last child!!! Then there are the two wrong marriages for his son via wife number 2 and three sons that appear from nowhere. The tree also shows four sets of cousins marrying and every relation back from them is duplicated,fair enough but the marriages are in four consecutive generations,so some folks appear on the tree five times.Not forgetting the 250+ unknown unknowns and 160+ living unknowns.From 4800 names i wonder just how many there really are. Glen

Glen Know what you mean, get really exited, get to a point where you can't go any further then - bam!!!!! - wait three weeks for the certs - sort of lose impetus!!!!!! What I normally do is then go back right to the beginning and try tracing siblings, half brothers - any rellies that I might not have traced because they're not 'direct line' just to see where they lead, found some interesting stories that way. just a thought Looby

Glen, Do a bit of googling on the place names where they lived to see what you can dig up - Genuki & historical directories etc. I know you have Norfolk interests - have you tried Picture Norfolk, accessed through the Norfolk section of Genuki? I found turn of the century views of villages of interest and super colour photos & drawings of churches where my ancestors were baptised and married. As they were ag labs, it was one way of building up location profiles for bachground information. Jay

Hi Loo Most of the certs are for indirect ones at present,one is on my fathers side (so i can finally start looking at his side of things). The rest are because a marriage witness threw up an interesting set of circumstances in the census. My other line passed through the area i live in now and i chased them through the Parish Registers at the local RO,so nothing much more to find there,no shocks with unknown children in a five year gap or anything,i have all but one of the plot numbers for burials,pictures of the old coastguard station,newspaper reports of weddings and obits etc. Just kind of twiddling my thumbs. Glen

Hi Janet The Churches my Norfolk lot used are extremely popular with the photographers,then i have some scenes of the coastguards and smugglers tales from Berwick and Norfolk,the railways play a part with one branch of the Norfolk based family,(station master and goods clerks).The census shows the Station Master living at his house and i found some pics of that too (dated only a week after the census). I really want to try and nail a bit more about my coastguard,how he got into the service and if he was ex Navy beforehand (i suspect he was) i just can't get to TNA,(fingers crossed Horatia might come up trumps for me there,we share this fellow) Glen

Glen Have you tried the Seamen'sRegister images on DocsOnline? If your coastguard is ex Navy, then he may be there. I found one of mine there (the wonderfully named: Eli Hector Christmas!). Christine

I must admit that's one i missed.There is also his son who went on to become a master mariner before his premature retirement and death in landlocked Lincoln (not counting the Fossdyke of course) Just noticed you can add video clips to FTM,now there's a thought. Glen