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Martin

Martin Report 18 Jul 2003 23:45

I am lucky to have a record office down the road to me and now i have got really into the names of all my past family. But how do you find out more about them. I am good at finding when they got married, baptised, died etc... but how do you find out more. thanx

Graham

Graham Report 19 Jul 2003 06:46

Martin - you've just asked one HUGE fundamental question but I'll try a simple answer. If your record office has given you details of births then the parents names should also be there too. So look for their marriage and their parents details if that's possible. The difficulty is that weddings in general took place in the home parish of the wife and they may have had children elsewhere. It is a long painful process, but I would recommend you try the 1901 and 1881 censuses. These will give you both confirmation of the household and also places of birth which will help you go back another generation either in your record office or another. Don't forget the IGI which is a huge resource waiting to be tapped also, as well as various messageboards for most of the counties on the web. Graham