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Female family memebers
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Dilys-Fay | Report | 25 Mar 2005 17:06 |
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Hi Can anybody give me any tips about tracing female family members. ie. I have their details from birth, (census records) Mother, Fathers name brothers, but then i loose the trace on them if they have married. I am at a stumbbling block at the moment. Any advise. Fay. |
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Eileen | Report | 25 Mar 2005 18:07 |
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If I can not find a marriage on BMD, I put their first name, birth year and place of birth on the next census, it works well if they come from a small village. this may bring up more than one person, I then check back on the first census to see if i can work out the one I want. regards Eileen |
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Phoenix | Report | 26 Mar 2005 07:47 |
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Other things to consider are witnesses to marriages and informants on death certificates. If your family have moved, look at people on the census with the same birthplace. Go through the marriages, page by page, to pick up recurring witnesses. Look at all the stray individuals in a census household for aunts, grandchildren etc. This sort of research often requires you to look at every entry, rather than dipping into indexes, and you may have to come a very long way forwards to take a single step back. |
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