Forum: Useful Information & Tips

Hi everyone I have a PDF document showing an address from Reading in 1888, however what I think it says doesn't seem to appear in the Reading 1888 Directory from the Reading library website. I'd love to ask you to help deciphering, but I'm not sure how to get the document onto the forum -...

Often when you go into someones site you see a tag asking if you want to download a gedcom. This is one of the areas I know nothing about. Has anyone downloaded a gedcom could they give me some feedback as to what it is all about.? Can you just tag that branch of the family onto your...

The payment of Old Age Pensions began on 1 January 1909 for those of 70 or over whose earnings were below £31-10s. per annum and were not in receipt of poor relief. This was the form that had to be filled in by claimants (from a booklet entitled 'Old Age Pension Regulations 1911'): These were...

Can anyone tell me what the P or P or a BP in the margin of baptisms stands for? This is when trolling Cityark parish registers. Thanks Sue

On unusual surnames I oftern search the different web sites using that as the only critieria. However, today whilst on Ancestry I made a mistake and put the surname in the first / middle name box - and what do you know? Up came a set of results - not many, but just enough for me to uncover yet...

The most useful book I have for family tree research is a Collins Road Atlas of Britain and Ireland given me as a present in 1997. I have found that family in the early days appear to start off in one village and then gradually shift out like the spokes in a wheel often from one market town to the...

Not sure if this has been posted but the National Archive at Kew will be closed on 30th November. Might save someone a wasted journey.

Hi You may already know but in my local paper they were advertising a new web site for Essex its www. essexancestors.co.uk Lj

I want to be sure everyone who had ancestors immigrate to the USA know that the 1940 US census is to be released 2 Apr 2012. This US National Archives site provides official information: www. archives.gov/research/census/1940/ I have reviewed the questions on the 1940 as outlined on this...

Hi everyone Has anyone out there had any success in finding a marriage using local marriage reference numbers from local registration offices. I understand from UKBMD that the numbers used at local reference offices are different from GRO references and can help identify which church was used...

This is overall a good site, but still in its early stages. Most of the photographs are fairly clear and they all include transcriptions of the engraving on the tombstones. In some cases, the submitter has added a bit of family information... watch out for this! Just out of curiousity I looked...

I'm not sure if this is in the right section, so please move if it isn't!! I was a little bored, and having stumbled across a marriage in 1771 by licence, I thought I'd go through all my marriage certificates that I have obtained either from the GRO (via online ordering service) or from local...

I have just received this information The Federation of Family History Societies has informedus of a new service at the National Library of Wales, see below for details: "On Monday 4 July 2011 The National Library ofWales, Aberystwyth launched a new Instant Chat service on its website. The...

It may be that some, or many, of you have already seen this, but I received a link to this blog in an email circular and found it very interesting to narrow down the occasions, and possibly therefore dates, of family photos http://...

I have, over time, developed a simple tool that effectively controls the research that I am doing on the numerous branches of my family tree. The tool, on an Excel spreadsheet, is basically divided into three sections: genealogical information including source data; research history with...

I hope this is accepted as a Genealogy thread. I am looking for a programme that joins/edits videos from a video camera. The reason? I have taken some videos for a couple in Canada of the church and area where their ancestors were living here in th UK, but it is a bit amateurish and I was...

When you place a photo in Photobucket, I'm refering to a large photo. Does it automatically gets downsized? If its Yes, then when you want to use that photo on a Webpage, is that photo in its original size or the changed size in Photobucket ?

Hi everyone I have used this forum for a couple of years now and only last night discovered this website's front page. www.british-genealogy.com Absolutely amazing place to begin and full of great information. Also think it is useful to know that The Parish Chest have lots to offer in the...

Durham University have joined forces with the LDS in a project that will eventually see over 150,000 Durham and Northumberland wills for the pre-1858 period viewable online. Once complete all the wills should be available to view and download free of charge. Although it will take some time...