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Family Trees - 7/17/2009 1:08:58 PM

RCdc

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Hey guys and girlies

I have done some researching myself, but I thought I might pick peoples brains. I am investigating my family tree and wondered if anyone had some recommendations for online detective work.

I am looking worldwide, but so far I also have traced some American, Australian and Irish connections, so if anyone has some places specific to there, as well I would appriciate any info.

But UK based would be cool too!

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 2:50:20 PM

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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark

Hey guys and girlies

I have done some researching myself, but I thought I might pick peoples brains. I am investigating my family tree and wondered if anyone had some recommendations for online detective work.

I am looking worldwide, but so far I also have traced some American, Australian and Irish connections, so if anyone has some places specific to there, as well I would appriciate any info.

But UK based would be cool too!

Thanks in advance.

the.dark.

I'm doing mine at the moment.......well more for my mother than me as she thinks we're going to find we're related to King Arthur or someone....

Anyway....there's 'census on line' which houses births/deaths/marriages etc.

Once you get to about 1800 then you'll have to go to libraries and town halls.

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 3:28:57 PM

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When I was tracing back my Scottish ancestors I found that a lot of local churches had baptismal and marriage records back quite a long ways.

For the US you can find our Census records from before 1920, IIRC, online. Again IIRC they're at Ancestry.com

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 4:49:34 PM

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The Mormon church sends its missionaries all over the world. And while they spend a lot of time proselytizing, they also spend a bunch in checking the courthouse and church records wherever they are. And sending that information back to Genealogy Central.

The result is that the Mormon church has phenomenal records, available for research. Just remember to give out a fake name and address when they ask you to sign in.

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 10:40:15 PM

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My sister did that a few years ago, it helped that we are related to the Booths, as there was a book published in the late 70's. Looking for published geneologies you might have a connection will help a lot. Turns out that, while not directly related to Patric Henry, his family and mine did intermix on occasion.

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 10:44:59 PM

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The Mormon church sends its missionaries all over the world. And while they spend a lot of time proselytizing, they also spend a bunch in checking the courthouse and church records wherever they are. And sending that information back to Genealogy Central.
The result is that the Mormon church has phenomenal records, available for research. Just remember to give out a fake name and address when they ask you to sign in.

Seconded. The Mormon church's genealogy records are an awesome resource.

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RE: Family Trees - 7/17/2009 11:36:27 PM

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Mine was pretty easy. I got death, marriage, birth records locally (Boston, Mass) and it really simplified matters that I knew that my paternal side came from Donegal, Ire and maternal side came from Sligo, Ire.
It's a huge advantage if you know from where your ancesters came from. Even your grandparents, you simply work backwards from there.
In Ireland I simply went to the county offices in Letterkenny, Donegal and asked for my grandmother's (long form) birth certificate and five minutes later they brought it out. It had a lot more info on it including names of grandparents ("Doherty" of course up in that neck of the woods!)

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RE: Family Trees - 7/18/2009 4:07:16 AM

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Beware, searching the family tree can be a consuming and long lived affair.

One of the members of my family recently gave up with it, the reason, everyone of the family who was interested, lost interest as the leaves of time were peeled back, maybe too much information, or the novelty had worn off. Well, from it we have had contact from 'family' in New Zealand, Australia, The US, the states of Texas, Mississipi and NewYork, also Ontario in Canada. We have also had a visit from one of the new members of the family, a guy from Texas, he came all the way over here to see who we were, and no doubt ran like hell back, for he did not hang around long.

The really interesting communication was the family in New Zealand, they with wealth developed from mining, our ancestors, Cornish tinners started something over there.Anyways, their family, it was interesting to note the interests and hobbies they had, for most of them were photography enthusiasts as in art photography and some did metal smithing, perhaps that was always in the family. Maybe even the Irish contingent that settled over here from Waterford were the tinker, the knife sharpener and coppersmiths.

Ancestry in both Eire and Northern Ireland, but all of the ancestry from the West of Britain, none that we can ascertain from the East of Britain, we still all live in the West, be that North or South.

Places to look, well, the Mormon site is vast, so much information there, what was their goal, to collect information on everyone, well, they are sure doing well at it.

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Parish records for where you know ancestors lived.

But be aware, something we came across, not everyone in families is born to those families, for there is some that were adopted, and fathers that took children on regardless of their origin, even fathers who were not married, it can get very messy and misleading, many blind paths will be taken and alive paths that lead nowhere.

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