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MarkCDodd wrote:On ancestry try the following.
1) Find the last census where you can find her under her maiden name.
2) Search for a suitable death from the middle of the census year +/- 5 years. i.e If the last census you can find is 1891 then search for deaths 1896 +/- 5years.
3) If a suitable death is not found then search for a marriage using the same +/- 5 years.
4) Always do searches for the whole of the UK, not just the county you think she may have married/died in.
5) Names should be searched:
i) Exact Spelling for Forename and Surname then
ii) Exact Spelling for Forename and Soundex/Phonetic/Similar for Surname
iii) Phonetic/Similar for Forename and Soundex/Phonetic/Similar for Surname
6) If you do not find a suitable marriage/death then try searching the following ten years i.e 1906 +/- 5
7) If she in consistent with her place of birth then Search All Records with an exact match on her forename, nothing in the surname and her year of birth +/- 5 years. Place her town of birth in the "Keyword" field and not "Location". Make sure "exact" is ticked for the keyword. i.e. Looking for a Susan Dodd born in Sheriffhales, Shropshire in 1845 I would enter the following.
First and middle names: Susan (restrict to exact)
Last name: LEAVE BLANK
Birth: 1852 +/- 5 Exact Only Location: LEAVE BLANK
Keyword: Sheriffhales Exact
Collection Priority: UK and Ireland Show Only Records From These Locations
Restrict to: HIstorical Records, Family Trees, Stories and publications, Photos and maps.
Make sure your results are sorted by category, not relevance.
The categories she will show up are census, births and family trees.
Quite often she will be in people's family trees with an unknown surname because they never found the marriage.
Quite often you will find somebody who looks like her in a census with her married name and you can search for the marriage just based on surnames.
There are a lot of tricks to finding people on Ancestry so that is a quick over view of the basics.
With familysearch their algorithms for finding similar names is excellent.
Always enter England as the place of the event you are searching for and ensure its ticked so you don't get pages of hits.
Jimmy wrote:1861. Whittington, Staffordshire.
John Wilson 28. Ag lab.
Alice Wilson 24.
John Wilson 4.
William Wilson 2.
John Wilson 57. Father. Widow. Ag lab.
Same family
1871.
John Wilson M 38. Elford, Staffordshire.
wife Alice Wilson F 34. Curborough, Staffordshire.
son John Wilson M 14. Whittington, Staffordshire.
son William Wilson M 12. Whittington, Staffordshire.
son Thomas Wilson M 7. Whittington, Staffordshire.
son Arthur Wilson M 5. Whittington, Staffordshire.
son Frank Wilson M 1. Whittington, Staffordshire.
Margarett wrote:Just as a point of interest, the 1881 census was transcribed for the LDS church by members of Family History societies in the UK, about 20 years ago. I was one of the transcribers and checkers doing it as a volunteer for the BMSGH. It was hard work, no computers then, and we were sent often poor photo copies through the post to work from. Very rewarding though, as I "found" several of my ancestors during transcription. Thanks, Auntie Em for saying that they are accurate!
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