Genealogy Forum UK

I have been looking through some old newspapers in the Cork, Ireland region to try to get through my irish ancestor brick walls and I have to say, old newspapers are definitely not politically correct. I just came across this one and had to share it: FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT An accident occurred on Fr...

Good luck the 1881 census has the best chance of returns because that one was the first to be available on the site but it can take a while to get a hit. But you never know, you might get an email in 6 months when someone puts in one of your people

I think one day I will get mine professionally printed, if possible cos its up to nearly 3000 people now on my mums side! My dads side is much smaller, only 150 people so I printed it out myself by doing family by family and cutting and gluing it all together! it was a bit of fun although not very p...

I am just curious how many forum members are using lostcousins to help them find distantly related living cousins. For those who dont know, www.lostcousins.com is a free site when you put in census details of anyone you are related to (not just ancestors) from the 1861, 1881 and/or 1911 census briti...

completed thanks, I did try looking for turner before but too many responses. The wildcard tip was helpful, i only ever use them to complete a name like t* but obviously way too many returns unless you can be really specific with the rest of the info.

Thanks everyone

Amy

The following is from m but I cant find the entry on the 1871 census. I am looking for Charles and Selina Tanner using findmypast. I tried an address search too but couldnt find the street name. Can someone help me find it and tell me what you used in your search. Thanks!! 1871 Stanford Street Warri...

Based on matching the letters to similar looking ones and the concensus so far on what the other words are I would say that surname is _holaus the second and third letters are written the same way as the h and o in thomas below, the l and a are similar to the l's and a in william and and the funky l...

For those of you who dont know what it is, www.lostcousins.com is a (mostly) free site where you can input all of your family members from the 1881 census. If ANYONE else inputs the same person you get notified. If you a PAYING member you can then initiate contact with this person, who needs to agre...

pffft, I was born in the 80s and im ok! alright, so it was early 80s and i was in a red dirt, gold mining, country town in western australia so I still had all these same experiences but still.... As a devils advocate, I can say that I think things SEEM worse now because reporting is better. There a...

horse nail maker, nail maker, nailer, chain maker, goldsmith, ironsmith and only ONE ACTUAL blacksmith and from memory he was out of work, my ancestors were plebs! Did I miss any?

P.s. Welcome!

Sites like this, lost cousins, emails through genealogy websites, cousin connect, all of those, often give us opportunities to get in touch with distant family members. For me it is always a thrill to get a new contact, send off that first email and get their first reply. Often new information comes...

Hi Beardie, No results for Emily Nellie Baker and too many for Emily Baker so I searched the 1911 for Emily Baker b. 1909 +-2years with James living in household. These are the three results that had James as the father. If you know their place of birth then you should be able to work out which one ...

The photo book should work well before. My aunt did an old photo one for my grandparents using My Reflections (google it) and it was really nice quality, looked great and you can download the software for free. It would probably be pretty easy to insert the census images and it comes with a heap of ...

Ooh I have never heard of this before. I will have to have a look tonight before it runs out.

I know what you mean about limited resources, being a student, but about a month ago I decided to splurge on a subscription. I chose findmypast to get all the census and I use FreeBMD to search for birth, marriage & death records which I personally find easy to use after a bit of practice. I did...