oldgreyheron
05-02-2009, 4:46 PM
Hi everyone!
My name is Mike Eccles and I have been researching my family history for a couple of years or more now. My interest was triggered by gaining access to a hand drawn tree created by a great aunt (Dorothea ELPHINSTONE-HOLLOWAY b1881) and a desire to check it and extend it. This has led me down all sorts of avenues... and to many frustrations too.
I also have a journal (actually marginal notes written in a daily devotional) created by her father (Cuthbert William ELPHINSTONE-HOLLOWAY b1833 d1916) which I am transcribing slowly - it adds data to the tree, describes military experience from the Crimea and is very difficult to read.
This focal point in the family lived in Devon, for many years in a house called Belair at Pennycross close to Plymouth.
So why have I signed up here? I guess it's probably because I have done the easy bits and I'm now pushing the edges and need help and advice. Until recently my tree existed solely on Genes Reunited (am I allowed to mention that here?) but I now have it off line as well.
I would welcome general or specific advice - I have spent a very great deal of time using ancestry.co.uk, FreeBMD and the web in general, but I've done no local research - most of the family lived in the South or South West - I'm up here in the North East.
I look forward to learning and sharing.
Mike
My name is Mike Eccles and I have been researching my family history for a couple of years or more now. My interest was triggered by gaining access to a hand drawn tree created by a great aunt (Dorothea ELPHINSTONE-HOLLOWAY b1881) and a desire to check it and extend it. This has led me down all sorts of avenues... and to many frustrations too.
I also have a journal (actually marginal notes written in a daily devotional) created by her father (Cuthbert William ELPHINSTONE-HOLLOWAY b1833 d1916) which I am transcribing slowly - it adds data to the tree, describes military experience from the Crimea and is very difficult to read.
This focal point in the family lived in Devon, for many years in a house called Belair at Pennycross close to Plymouth.
So why have I signed up here? I guess it's probably because I have done the easy bits and I'm now pushing the edges and need help and advice. Until recently my tree existed solely on Genes Reunited (am I allowed to mention that here?) but I now have it off line as well.
I would welcome general or specific advice - I have spent a very great deal of time using ancestry.co.uk, FreeBMD and the web in general, but I've done no local research - most of the family lived in the South or South West - I'm up here in the North East.
I look forward to learning and sharing.
Mike