Forum: Useful Information & Tips

I don't know if this is the right forum or not, here's just a few examples why you should try different spelling when searching records, these entries below are just a few of many from the Parish Register of Mylor in Cornwall, I've decided that my computer just isn't smart enough, and some of these...

I wonder how many forum users use (or even know of) the "duplicate birth registers" (vaccination registers) at many County Record Offices? It covers the period from 1874 to the mid 20th century and allows access to the duplicate birth registers. Created under the Vaccination Act of 1871 these...

Just a thought but have just put into Google one of my research surnames and the town name really to see what came up as you never know and one of my BG postings came up on the search with my photo.That is fine but it does occur to me and this is something that I am guilty of ! that if we put in a...

I am sure I read on here recently where someone had put in a site whereby railway accidents could be checked out, I can't find it but I know it was on the last post page on either Saturday or Sunday Many thanks if someone can let me know what it is please, I have a person in an accident 1940 ...

Wolfram Alpha is a "Computational Knowledge Engine" (whatever one of those is), but to me it's like a cross between a very smart web calculator and a search engine. Anyway today I noticed they show as an example "genealogy" this allows you to type in a sentence describing a relationship, and the...

Apart from purchasing a number of great resources there were 2 specific purposes that I had in mind when I went to the Yorkshire Family History Fair The first was to make arrangements to have two separate Family Trees professsionally produced To this end I took gedcoms on CD with me for each...

I have found the following website - National Library of Australia newspapers a godsend when researching my ancestors, including birth, engagement, marriage and death announcements as well as University exam results, divorce info and other social info. http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home ...

Earlier today I had a very welcome phone call from a former colleague I served in the Royal Navy with. He knew about my Family History interests and wanted my advice on how to go about obtaining his father's Army Records for World War II. There has been much posted on this site about First World...

Findmypast announced today that they have now added the Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records for the period 1855 - 1872. This is the third set in the series due to be completed by September 2011. The number of records added in this batch is 96,434, all records having at least 4...

I've recently discovered this website. It gives information from clothing to "a day in the life of", from shopping to games and pastimes and is set in 1876. Worth a wander through it's pages. http://logicmgmt.com/1876/intro.htm

I've emailed two Libraries in the last couple of days asking for lookups on the Electoral Roll in their area. In both cases (they were different areas) they have replied very promptly and given me all the information I wanted. Don't you think that is good service at no cost.:flowers: June

"Trees Service on the Ancestry.co.uk web site is temporarily unavailable due to technical difficulties. We are working to resolve the issue. In the meantime, you can continue to use the functional parts of the site. " I thought at first they had wiped all my work but then the above banner came...

when some of the names of topics are in "lighter ink" - rather grey instead oif black? - it's puzzling me! oops! I meant lighter shade of red!

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...

You know how on Freebmd you can click on the last number and get the other people on the same page? Well, what would you do if you got three men's name and only 1 woman. You'd think it was a mistranscription of the reference number. Today, I saw a different explanation. A friend was making...

Morning all Google maps "streetscene" now covers 95% of the UK. A very interesting way of looking at your ancestry "roots" Brian

In November's "Practical Family History" magazine I discovered the following: "A useful genealogy toolbar for your internet browser has been released by the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society providing access to almost 200 of the most commonly used genealogy sites from across the...

Hi |wave| I was hunting for one of my ancestors on A* yesterday and finally managed to find him mis-transcribed as Kinson. I was then curious to see how many others I could find.....and there were quite a lot Atkinson, Dunkinson, Hodgkinson, Huskinson, Tompkinson to name a few So if...

Firstly apologises, if I end up teaching GM's to suck eggs, but I thought I'd pass on a methodology for storing records on your computer. I have been gathering documents both electronic and paper for a while now and creating disk folders but running into a few messes along the way. Recently...