Genealogy Chat

Hi Welcome to a seriously addictive hobby! Have you had a look at the Resources section? For reasons unknown, the links are near the bottom (i.e. not highly visible) on your home page. It gives all sorts of ideas about where to find info - not least asking amongst the family. I failed to ask some members of the family and used up a lot of effort finding out what they already knew - and that's people I know quite well - indeed, in one case, I even had some of their family tree research results but hadn't realised they had found out more since my copy (daft, really!). There are also lots of useful links in their Resources lists and, if you use the Thread-search in the Tips board, you might find more... there's certainly one thread with a "best links" list that's really very useful. And don't forget Google (and the like). You can find all sorts of things by putting family-names and town-names in a search-terms. if you put inverted commas around multi-part names, Google treats them as an item and not as lots of separate words. Good hunting! Christine

If they were born after 1901, the only way is to trawl through the birth index and find births in the right area. After 1911 the mothers maiden name is included, so that will narrow your search down a bit.

I suppose the census records are as good as any?!

I have recently started my family tree. How can I find out how many siblings were in a family? Thanks.