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Antie Em wrote:Hello Hope
The next step is to find the marriages of the parents - so, for example, William Jones was born in 1885 with parents John Jones and Sarah Jones (formerly Smith) - you would look for a marriage for John Jones and Sarah Smith, usually before the birth date of their child.
Sorry, I haven't read all of these posts - do you have access to Ancestry or Find My Past. If not - you will find births, deaths and marriages on FreeBMD - here : http://freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Good Luck - let us know how you get on
Maggie
snoopysue wrote:Hope wrote:peterd wrote:then parents birth & marriage certificate then granparents birth and marriage certificate is the place to start
Thanks Peterd yes i now have the certificates so next stop x
Next stop is to find the out more about the people on the certificate.
You could try and find their births. See this site:
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
Would they have been around in 1911 for the census? Their fathers certainly would have been. (If you don't have a subscription to a site that has the census, post a look up).
Hope wrote:Hi Snoopysue just been on the freebmd site kept getting it all wrong oh my word its very daunting
will have a cuupa and try again x
Hi Maggie thanks for all your help i did look into joining one of the sites but they wanted £150 dont get that spare in three years so no way could i afford to join. Can you recomend a disc for a family tree a very easy to use one please as new to computers and dont know much on how they work. Thanks again xAntie Em wrote:You will have to pay for membership to Ancestry or Find My Past, so you may probably need to decide if you're going to "stick with it" before you part with any money. Ancestry sometimes has an offer on a 14 day trial period - it might be worth contacting them to see if they're doing it at the moment.
FreeBMD is free and although the records are more limited than the other two sites, it is very good for Births, Deaths and Marriages.
A more local site for the West Midlands is http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk/ - this is the local Birth, Deaths and Marriage records and is more accurate to the place of birth - and is free.
Also, as Northern Lass says, if you are taking it serious, it can get a bit out of hand if you keep everything on paper. It's well worth investing in a family history programme, they're not too expensive and will keep everything in order for you.
Family Tree is good and also Rootsmagic.
Maggie
Hope wrote:Hi Maggie thanks for all your help i did look into joining one of the sites but they wanted £150 dont get that spare in three years so no way could i afford to join. Can you recomend a disc for a family tree a very easy to use one please as new to computers and dont know much on how they work. Thanks again xAntie Em wrote:You will have to pay for membership to Ancestry or Find My Past, so you may probably need to decide if you're going to "stick with it" before you part with any money. Ancestry sometimes has an offer on a 14 day trial period - it might be worth contacting them to see if they're doing it at the moment.
FreeBMD is free and although the records are more limited than the other two sites, it is very good for Births, Deaths and Marriages.
A more local site for the West Midlands is http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk/ - this is the local Birth, Deaths and Marriage records and is more accurate to the place of birth - and is free.
Also, as Northern Lass says, if you are taking it serious, it can get a bit out of hand if you keep everything on paper. It's well worth investing in a family history programme, they're not too expensive and will keep everything in order for you.
Family Tree is good and also Rootsmagic.
Maggie
Antie Em wrote:I use Rootsmagic - I have used it for years and just buy the update every couple of years. It is really easy to use and the backup help from the company is excellent. In fact they arrange online training.
Have a look at S & N Supplies here : http://www.genealogysupplies.com/
The Platinum Edition is the one that you need.
There are free family history programmes you can use - Tribal Pages is good, this is the one we use for Black Country Connections, but it is web based, so you could lose your very valuable research.
Maggie
Antie Em wrote:Hope wrote:Hi Maggie thanks for all your help i did look into joining one of the sites but they wanted £150 dont get that spare in three years so no way could i afford to join. Can you recomend a disc for a family tree a very easy to use one please as new to computers and dont know much on how they work. Thanks again xAntie Em wrote:You will have to pay for membership to Ancestry or Find My Past, so you may probably need to decide if you're going to "stick with it" before you part with any money. Ancestry sometimes has an offer on a 14 day trial period - it might be worth contacting them to see if they're doing it at the moment.
FreeBMD is free and although the records are more limited than the other two sites, it is very good for Births, Deaths and Marriages.
A more local site for the West Midlands is http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk/ - this is the local Birth, Deaths and Marriage records and is more accurate to the place of birth - and is free.
Also, as Northern Lass says, if you are taking it serious, it can get a bit out of hand if you keep everything on paper. It's well worth investing in a family history programme, they're not too expensive and will keep everything in order for you.
Family Tree is good and also Rootsmagic.
Maggie
You can join Ancestry - just covering the UK for about £80.00, but if you don't want to join, you can post your lookups on this site and we will help. Try FreeBMD first, you will soon get used to using it. It is important when you first start researching that you try and do the work yourself, it's the best way to learn. You'll soon become proficient - honestly.
Maggie
snoopysue wrote:Just have a play about with it, can't hurt!
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