Forum: Useful Information & Tips

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

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 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 ?

I’ve noticed a couple of threads where people have been unable to save images they have found on the Family Search Pilot website. View the image. Click ‘Save’ on the bar above the image. In the filename requester, enter the filename followed by a (dot) and an appropriate graphics filename...

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...

Has anyone viewed this site yet? I noticed it in Peters newsletter from Curious Fox. It's a gem for old photos from mainly Uk & USA, but elsewhere also. May be here is where you'll find that old photo you've long been looking for? ...Got some to add? Go to it. http://www. historypin.com/

This seems to be getting quite a lot of attention (they were discussing it on Radio 2, has its own section on BBC History site, Horrible Histories :lol:) recently - but I must confess I'd not heard of this particular term! A quick google will show you the general picture of cholera, typhoid etc...

Just had an email about their upgrade to searching for mariages. Thought I would try it out so I tried with my name and my wife and it came up as it should. Then tried with the names of some old friends and it says "no match found" - tried with just one name and it finds them but with any part of...

BBC Magazines Bristol has today announced that it has purchased a majority share and taken over the management of Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, the UK’s largest family history event....Brand Events will act as consultants for the 2011 event.....Wall to Wall,the production company behind the BBC...

Good day folks, I am unsure where this should be posted but hope its of use here to some of you. Quote: "Since the Middle Ages thousands of towns, villages, and other human communities in Great Britain have been abandoned." So goes the first line of the following web site: www....

This has appeared on FB and I hope this is the right place for it. Were you, or was anyone you know, born on the 12th December 1960? If so then please get in touch asap as we have an exciting request for you! Keith

Do you have that missing ancestor that you can't find anywhere? Have you considered a stowaway? I have just watched a program on CBC and an ancestor in this case had stowed away on a ship leaving Dorset and at age 14 had ended up in Newfoundland in the late 1700's. This young lad stayed in...

I don't know if this site has been mentioned before, I came across it the other day, and thought that it may be of some use to anyone searching for children who had been put in care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain. I'm not too sure if you can actually...