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[cicero]

I have just started to look into my family history and have one or two documents to kick me off but I would be interested to know what web sites if any can help me on my way and if so if one is better than another?

I don't know exaxctly what documents they can access although I have seen that they make a charge so all the more reason for knowing which is good and which isn't before I pay my money out!

Any advice gratefully received.

Many thanks.

[peterd]

there various site every one uses for there own preferences, me i use this site and where im stuck i stick the querry on some one usually finds me an answer, if you wish to do your tree with only guidence,then the members will stick on there preferences and why, but if you wish help then type away, theres lots of it on here there a great bunch

some tips here

viewforum.php?f=76

[Maths girl]

Welcome cicero and Happy Hunting.

As you say it can get expensive but some things are free -- have you found the a Family Search site yet -- by no means comprehensive but you can strike lucky.

Some areas have more free on line than others -- which areas are you interested in in particular?

Maths girl

[peterd]

click on the name hardy salford comes up so these two will help

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html

and

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

[Antie Em]

Hello cicero and welcome to the forum - hope you enjoy our company.

Here are a few free sites that are very helpful :
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/ ... search.asp - for Baptisms and Marriages mainly before 1837
http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk - for local births deaths and marriages in the West Midlands
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk - for local births deaths and marriages in other counties
http://freebmd.org.uk - for national births, deaths and marriages

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.findmypast.co.uk
- for a full index of births deaths and marriages, census and other useful records - you will have to pay for both of these

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk - also has births deaths and marriages, census records and is chargeable. I just use this site for making contact with other people who are researching my families, if you use it just for this it costs only a few pounds a year.

One free site is a must for anyone embarking on tracing their family is http://www.genuki.org.uk - which contains a large collection of genealogical information for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

Have a look on our Black Country Tree - http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com - maybe some of your ancestors are here

Why don't you post some of the information you already have and maybe we can help - please be careful not to include any information on living people.

Good Luck - Maggie

[cicero]

Hi, folks

Well thanks to all who responded plenty of useful info. there.

Slightly puzzled by peterd's response mentioning Salford and the name Hardy? Are you psychic?

It will take me a while to go through the info. you given and this morning I also arranged to visit my local library (Stockport Central) on Monday to look at what they have
available.

I've decided to go mad and try to find out about my paternal grandfather and family (who I never knew) and my mother's family on both sides so there's lots to work on.

I have an address for the family but when I try to find it on the census for 1911 it can't find it which is maybe down to my error but slightly perplexing.

If anyone can help confirm the address I have on the census it is 11West Burton Street, Regent Road, Salford 5

I have also put a query in the West Midlands section as I have connections to Birmingham and Worcestershire.

Thanks again folks for all the help you have given.

[Antie Em]

Is this who you are looking for -

1911 - 11 West Burton Street, Salford

213 HOLLOWAY, Thomas Head Married
30 years M 52 1859 Goods Checker Manchester Lancs
213 HOLLOWAY, Harriet Wife F 50 1861 Salford Lancs
213 HOLLOWAY, Samuel Fredrick Son Single M 29 1882 Brass Moulder Salford Lancs
213 HOLLOWAY, Alice Amelia Daughter Single F 26 1885 Salford Lancs
213 HOLLOWAY, Emily Daughter Single F 24 1887 Salford Lancs
213 HOLLOWAY, Clarence Thomas Son Single M 17 1894 Grey Cloth Warehouse-Man Salford Lancs

[cicero]

Hi, Antie Em,

That's kind of you to look it up for me. That's certainly the address I have but not the family. I have the address form my dad's birth info. which is 1919 but it looks as if the family didn't live there in 1911.

The family name is Hardy. I didn't get any result for that address when I searched so may I ask where you got it from please?

Thanks.

[Antie Em]

Got this from Find My Past - can you give us a bit more information on the family - perhaps someone can find them. Sometimes another pair of eyes helps.

[cicero]

Got this from Find My Past - can you give us a bit more information on the family - perhaps someone can find them. Sometimes another pair of eyes helps.

My father's name was Eric William Hardy born December 26 1919 in Pendleton, Salford (I don't know where exactly) and his father was (I believe) William Hardy. My grandmother's maiden name was Heywood or Heyward.

Apart from the address given before that's all I know currently.

Cheers.

[Antie Em]

Your father's birth was registered here : His birth might have been registered at the beginning of 1920 if he was born in December 1919.

Eric William Hardy - Registered March Qtr 1920 - Salford District
Mother's Maiden Name is Heywood

You probably need to get this certificate to find out your grandmother's name - then you can look for the marriage. I have looked but can't find it with just her surname.

Here is the Salford Office : http://www.salford.gov.uk/bmd.htm

[cicero]

Your father's birth was registered here : His birth might have been registered at the beginning of 1920 if he was born in December 1919.

Eric William Hardy - Registered March Qtr 1920 - Salford District
Mother's Maiden Name is Heywood

You probably need to get this certificate to find out your grandmother's name - then you can look for the marriage. I have looked but can't find it with just her surname.

Here is the Salford Office : http://www.salford.gov.uk/bmd.htm

Hi

You are right about it being registered in 1920 and you have confirmed my grandmother's maiden name was Heywood not Heyward as my mother thought.

My grandmother's Christian name was Margaret.

[linell]

There's this one, Sep 1940:-

Hardy Herbert W H Heywood Leicester 7a 830
Heywood Margaret Hardy Leicester 7a 830

HTH Linell.

[peterd]

There's this one, Sep 1940:-

Hardy Herbert W H Heywood Leicester 7a 830
Heywood Margaret Hardy Leicester 7a 830

HTH Linell.

that would be too late linell poss marriage c1912

poss kids

Births Sep 1913
Hardy Phyllis Heywood Salford 8d 67

Births Dec 1915
HARDY Winifred HEYWOOD Salford 8d 64

Births Mar 1920
Hardy Eric W Heywood Salford 8d 21

Births Mar 1923
Hardy Annie L Heywood Salford 8d 7

Births Sep 1924
Hardy Doreen T Heywood Chorlton 8c 1245

Births Dec 1925
Hardy Maurice Heywood Salford 8d 387

[peterd]

there this one bit late ?


Marriages Jun 1923

Hardy Gordon W Heywood Chorlton 8c 1847
Heywood Beatrice Hardy Chorlton 8c 1847


poss parents of Doreen ?