Genealogy Forum UK

Hi, thanks for the welcome. I haven't done a DNA check. I'm a little paranoid about letting some company (particularly an American one) have any information like that. (I develop software for Police forensics and crime scene imagery and we have to be very careful about how/where we store confidentia...

Thanks again - I'll order the BC

Wow, thank you so much!! I had seen all that information before and never managed to figure out how it fitted together. Your interpretation makes perfect sense to me. (Like some others researching the same line on Ancestry I'd gone with a Mary Ann REA, daughter of John REA and Martha REA (DAVIES), b...

Thanks for the welcome.

I will definitely look at the Black Country section - half my family come from there but it's one of the few parts of England I haven't been to. Was hoping to spend a few days up there visiting churches but in lock down mode at the moment

Hi, I've just joined the forum - been looking at the message boards on Ancestry but they look really slow. Although I'm a Yorkshireman living in Berkshire, most of my family are (most recently) from Lancashire, and I have a lot of info on my Mum's side who lived around Little Hulton going back 400 y...

My first posting on the message boards, so forgive me if it's in the wrong place. I'm searching for my great great grandmother Mary Ann. She was born around 1849 in Sedgley Staffs (according to later censuses). She married my GG Grandfather John Price on 21st June 1868 and I have her in the censuses...