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the first brick wall: getting started
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jax | Report | 10 Jun 2014 23:31 |
No I doubt it |
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Mayfield | Report | 10 Jun 2014 23:14 |
Interesting jax same link signed in one price signed out another :-) |
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jax | Report | 10 Jun 2014 22:34 |
Wayne |
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Wayne | Report | 10 Jun 2014 22:18 |
Many thanks to everyone for the helpful replies. |
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Mayfield | Report | 10 Jun 2014 13:21 |
If you are researching the UK there are a lot of people on here with local knowledge. |
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Sirius | Report | 10 Jun 2014 12:21 |
Wayne, I use Ancestry for records, more especially because they have parish record for areas relevant to me. But the one thing that Genes Reunited has is the wealth of experience of its members, and many of them have access to other records or have specific areas of knowledge. |
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Wayne | Report | 10 Jun 2014 12:18 |
To Mayfield |
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Wayne | Report | 10 Jun 2014 12:08 |
Thank you for this detailed response. It's very helpful. If I understand you rightly, the place to be to find records (as opposed to public trees) is a site like Ancestry. So I could have saved my money by not enrolling here and just paying for the upgrade at Ancestry which would allow me to consult UK records. Fortunately I only paid for a one month subscription. Perhaps I'll still be able to avail myself of the warm community offered here and then may want to continue my subscription. |
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Mayfield | Report | 10 Jun 2014 10:27 |
Yes Ancestry is better for records, but if you want assistance or advice the forum members on here are very helpful. |
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Samantha | Report | 10 Jun 2014 09:19 |
Go and join Ancestry, much better |
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Penny | Report | 10 Jun 2014 07:29 |
records in England from about 1550-1800 are few and far between, and scattered around records offices. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 10 Jun 2014 05:12 |
Welcome Wayne |
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Wayne | Report | 10 Jun 2014 03:38 |
I think I have just joined the wrong genealogy site, but I would appreciate the advice of experienced users of this site. I'm an old hand at genealogy--been doing this work for 20 years--so I don't need beginners' tips (which are the only kind I see). I've used the databases at Ancestry and similar sites for the past eight years, so I know my way around data bases. Yet, I subscribe here, post four people in a tree, thinking that should be enough to get it started, and nothing directs me to a single record, click madly about though I may. |