Genealogy Chat

Saw it written like this on the success board earlier & thought it quite apt. SEE BELOW:

My genes are quite untied & I'm trying to tie them up. I've got a birth cert for Mary Lucy Parker (1/1/1852 Bixley) mother: Maria Frances Spanton father: Thomas Parker (gamekeeper) mother was informant. Maria is on 1841 aged 10 with father Frances Spanton (innkeeper at St John Timberhill, Norwich) & then she disappears Thomas is completely invisible Mary is on 1861 with grandfather (Francis H Spanton). I've looked on Hugh Wallis & there are no Spantons on St John Timberhill & I tried family relatives org & can't make it bring up any matches at all for Parker/Spanton. Thought it's be easier with the cert but it's just opened up a whole new set of closed doors. Anyone got any ideas?? Sarah :-)

Yes I saw that too! It gave me a great laugh - just the sort of typo I make. The implications of genes reuntied is just what it feels like somtimes when searching and only finding other people's ancestors! Anne

When you say: ''I tried family relatives org & can't make it bring up any matches at all for Parker/Spanton'' Do you mean for a marriage? You can't get a marriage match before 1866 on FR! (can you?????) Merry

Marriages Dec 1850 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parker Thomas Henstead 13 483 Spanton Maria Henstead 13 483 Merry

1851: Maria Parker abt 1830 Norwich Wife Framingham Pigot Norfolk Thomas Parker abt 1823 Arminghall, Norfolk, England Head Framingham Pigot Norfolk Thomas, occ gamekeeper Merry

Is there a sister in 1871? Emma aged 13, can't see her in 1861 . Heather

1871 maybe? View Record Alice Parker abt 1865 Lakenham Daughter Heigham Norfolk View Record Arthur Parker abt 1856 Joperoft, Norfolk, England Son Heigham Norfolk View Record Charles Parker abt 1852 Norwich Son Heigham Norfolk View Record Eliza Parker abt 1859 Hempnall, Norfolk, England Daughter Heigham Norfolk View Record Francis Parker abt 1853 Bixley, Norfolk, England Son Heigham Norfolk View Record George Parker abt 1855 Kirby, Norfolk, England Son Heigham Norfolk View Record Maria Parker abt 1830 Norwich Wife Heigham Norfolk View Record Thomas Parker abt 1821 Arminghall, Norfolk, England Head Heigham Norfolk

OOOh you clever lot you... I've been going round in circles & getting nowhere & you've done it all in the time it took me to feed the baby!! Thank you, thank you thank you! Sarah :-)))) Merry - are there dates on family relatives then? must admit that because I've never found anything on it I've not really looked into why!! will look closer now.

Family relatives has transcriptions of all the GRO indexes from 1866 - 1920 (it has the other years as well, but they are not transcribed, so it's just the same as 1837online or Ancestry viewable pages (but of course, Ancestry is free for that!) Anyway.....for 1866-1920 the records on FR are fully searchable, but you have to consider what info is available on the GRO index.....obviously they have only transcribed what is on the index! So, you can search with mum's maiden name for births post 1911 Q3 and also with spouse surname for marriages after 1912.....but all only up to 1920. For 1866 - 1911 you can ask it to do a marriage match. This pulls up all the people with the same GRO details (the same as FreeBMD does).....It can help you on the odd occassion that FreeBMD has not transcribed all the names.... You can't do a marriage match before 1866 because the records are not transcribed! Merry

Sorry Merry, I was looking at Parish registers, not bmd. I didn't think there was a date for those (I've never tried bmd on there, prefer to trawl ancestry if freebmd's no good) Sarah :-)

I just looked at the 1851 Thomas Parker He lives next door to a policeman who, on census night had a Dennis Healey born in Ireland as a PRISONER staying with him.