Hi from Antonia
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:16 pm
Hi everyone,
I've just joined, after finding the Black Country Connections website.
I've spent the past 25 years tracing my family tree and now have a huge collection of information which I store in an Excel spreadsheet and send out to relations on request. However, in order to make this more widely available I have been slowly adding it to a personal tree on Ancestry.com. My tree contains some 10,000 individuals at the last count, and about half of those came from the Black Country. Prior to the Industrial Revolution some of my Black Country lines originated from Shropshire.
I'm extremely careful about the information that I use and do my best to check out primary sources where I can. I live about a mile away from the Society of Genealogists in London, which helps! I have a lot of BMD certificates to share. I also read Latin well so can offer help if anyone needs it with old documents etc.
I have probably been in touch with some of the other Black Country researchers in the past, as I've recognised some information about my very close relations that I supplied to a researcher a few years back. It will be great to have this forum as a centralised place to discuss things rather than relying on email which is tricky to keep track on over the years.
The names that I am interested in are as follows:
Addlington (Haddlington); Attwood; Baker; Ball; Barker; Bale/Beale; Beddoe; Boden; Bradley; Cartwright; Clayton; Clews; Corbett; Cooper; Crawford; Davies; Dudley; Edwards; Elwell; Fay; Field; Foxall; Fudge; George; Gethin; Gibson; Giles; Glazebrook; Goslin; Grimes; Grove; Hadley; Haines; Hale; Hartill; Hartshorn; Hathaway; Haycock; Hewish; Hickman; Hodgetts; Hollies; Horobin; Jeffries; Jewkes; Jones; Kirkham; Knight; Lavender; Madeley; Marsh; Martin; Milsom; Moore; Neath; Oakley; Parkes; Perry; Price; Quinton; Reynolds; Rider; Roberts; Robinson; Rollason; Round; Sankey; Shakespeare; Shaw; Souch; Spittle; Taylor; Thompson; Turner; Vickers; Walton; Wassell; Westwood; Wheale/Whale; Whitchurch; Whitehouse; Willets; Williams; Winter; Woodall.
Nice to meet you all, I'm looking forward to working with you!
Antonia
I've just joined, after finding the Black Country Connections website.
I've spent the past 25 years tracing my family tree and now have a huge collection of information which I store in an Excel spreadsheet and send out to relations on request. However, in order to make this more widely available I have been slowly adding it to a personal tree on Ancestry.com. My tree contains some 10,000 individuals at the last count, and about half of those came from the Black Country. Prior to the Industrial Revolution some of my Black Country lines originated from Shropshire.
I'm extremely careful about the information that I use and do my best to check out primary sources where I can. I live about a mile away from the Society of Genealogists in London, which helps! I have a lot of BMD certificates to share. I also read Latin well so can offer help if anyone needs it with old documents etc.
I have probably been in touch with some of the other Black Country researchers in the past, as I've recognised some information about my very close relations that I supplied to a researcher a few years back. It will be great to have this forum as a centralised place to discuss things rather than relying on email which is tricky to keep track on over the years.
The names that I am interested in are as follows:
Addlington (Haddlington); Attwood; Baker; Ball; Barker; Bale/Beale; Beddoe; Boden; Bradley; Cartwright; Clayton; Clews; Corbett; Cooper; Crawford; Davies; Dudley; Edwards; Elwell; Fay; Field; Foxall; Fudge; George; Gethin; Gibson; Giles; Glazebrook; Goslin; Grimes; Grove; Hadley; Haines; Hale; Hartill; Hartshorn; Hathaway; Haycock; Hewish; Hickman; Hodgetts; Hollies; Horobin; Jeffries; Jewkes; Jones; Kirkham; Knight; Lavender; Madeley; Marsh; Martin; Milsom; Moore; Neath; Oakley; Parkes; Perry; Price; Quinton; Reynolds; Rider; Roberts; Robinson; Rollason; Round; Sankey; Shakespeare; Shaw; Souch; Spittle; Taylor; Thompson; Turner; Vickers; Walton; Wassell; Westwood; Wheale/Whale; Whitchurch; Whitehouse; Willets; Williams; Winter; Woodall.
Nice to meet you all, I'm looking forward to working with you!
Antonia
