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Researching ones ancestry is very popular these days and the Internet has made the task much easier. This page is just an initial pointer for people who are making a start. There is even a regular magazine devoted to Genealogy on the bookshelves these days.
People are becoming more interested in DNA testing and its relationship with genealogy. Interesting information on this complex matter is held on http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/bigmisc/DNA.html and also at http://www.familytreedna.com/dna101.html (American). It certainly would be interesting to hear whether your ancestors came from far off lands. Of course this research is bound to cost cash. The above site quotes from $129 to $489 depending on whether the Male (Y-DNA) or Female (mtDNA) line tests (or both) are ordered. A company in London http://www.dna-bioscience.co.uk/ provide a service with prices starting at £159. But their service appears to be more concerned with 'paternity proof'. Ancestry.co.uk is now providinga DNA checking service for £74.
You can find some new and inexpensive software on the net at www.focusmm.co.uk. Click HERE for more detail on their Genealogy program.
One way to get information is to join a 'forum' such as http://forum.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk.
Brian O'Connor is keen to develop 'Oral History' for people. See and example at www.allourlives.co.uk Brian is willing help your family develop such an oral history. It can contain not only tape recorded sound but also video. He is willing to travel in the London, Essex and Herts areas. But, of course, this service will cost. Interested ? Email him by clicking here.
Lost touch with an old friend ? Ken Tovey is now willing to search for anyone who you have lost touch with in this country or possibly Australia. He may also be able to start you on the right lines to find ancestors. It is a free service. Contact him by email ken@kentovey16.wanadoo.co.uk He needs as much information as he can get : All names, date of birth, marriage, the regiment if in the HMF, last address. He is especially able to find records of people who would have been around in the 19th and early 20th Century. Ken is now paying for access to the Electoral Roll and has already managed to reunite someone with their long lost father.
A fascinating piece of research has been carried at by the University College, London. See http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx and type in your name, then look at the map and then find the towns in which there were large concentrations of the name.
Get a program. e.g. Family Tree Maker by Broderbund, Roots Magic 1, Brother's keeper, Heritage Family Tree, which can be bought on the net or from a computer store. There are many others. Apart from the program, which should help you keep the data in order they mostly contain a large number of disks with millions of records, admittedly many are those from the U.S.A., where genealogy is particularly popular. The programs will also point you to places on the 'net' where you can get more information. A useful link for British oriented software is www.my-history.co.uk
There is also a book entitled "The Genealogist's Internet" by Peter Christian £7.69
How to start ? You may be able to join a local Family History Society. See www.ffhs.org.uk. Have a look at the government site www.familyrecords.gov.uk. This is the Family Record Centre at 1, Myddleton Street, London EC1R1UW. It is better to concentrate on one specific 'root' name and try to track this back as far as you can. In my case a great deal of the research was already completed and there is a five yearly reunion in the USA of people of the same name, all of whom who are related.
One of the best starting points is http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/guides/internet_links.htm There you will find links to other sites
Here are some suggestions how to go about tracing people, alive or dead.
First, try typing a name in various search engines such as Google,
Yahoo, Askjeeves, Copernic and look carefully at the links which are displayed.
Obviously if you enter a common name you will get offered thousands
of links, many not related to genealogical records. But, if you go
through the list you will begin to find other people doing precisely what
you are attempting to do.
The second thing to do is contact the Mormon site,
www.familysearch.com. For religious
reasons the organisers of this free site is attempting to record the names
of everyone who has ever lived !
The 1901 Census for England and Wales. One of the main sources of UK information is the census. However, information is not published about these records until 100 years after each census. The 1901 Census (England, Wales and the Channel Islands), is now available from http://www.1901censusonline.com/
What does it cost? Searching the index is FREE. Viewing transcribed data costs 50p for an individual and then 50p for a list of all other people in that person's household. Viewing a digital image of the census page costs 75p.Payment is by Credit or Debit Card. .A credit card session will last for 48 hours but in this period you may suspend and resume your search and use up any credit left on your £5 charge.If you do not have a credit card or do not wish to use it you will be able to buy vouchers to use the service.
The entries for households on the census returns for 1851 to1901 have the following information : Road, street, town or village· number or name of house; whether the house is inhabited or not; name and surname of each person; relation to Head of Family· Condition as to marriage; age last birthday; profession or occupation; whether employed or not; where born; whether deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, imbecile or feeble-minded !
Each page of the census has been photographed and you can download these images, which cover the whole page from the census enumerator's book on which the individual's entry appears. Each image (in TIFF format) is about 250 kilobytes.
You can print an image but note that the images are large and print best on A3 size paper or you can place an order through the online service and a copy will be posted to you. The prints are A3 size and cost 50p each plus a charge for postage and packing.
Earlier censuses (1841 to 1891) are kept on microfilm and are available at the Family Records Centre, Islington but local libraries and record offices usually have the returns for their local areas.
For Scotland look at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (Many earlier records than 1855) www.scottishdocuments.com (wills 1384-1858) and www.scotsorigins.com . Northern Ireland is at http://proni.nics.gov.uk Eire is www.nationalarchives.ie and www.irishorigns.com
You can try any of these:
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
a new service connected to the well known Friends reunited
Ancestorsonboard.com has added
another decade of records to the UK Outbound Passenger Lists currently available.
Records now include an incredible 15,749,960 names within 97,614 passenger
lists spanning 1890 to 1929.
London Records The London Metropolitan Archives, 40,
Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB has records of 800+ chapels and churches, Poor
Law records, workhouses, school and electoral registers.
http://www.parishchest.com/
Many links to sites, mainly charging for information
www.sog.org.uk (Society of Genealogists)
Find my past specialises emigrants passenger lists and British Service personnel
killed in the World Wars but also includes census records for 1841 and 1861,
London, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex, Lancashire and Worcestershire) also
see
http://www.findmypast.com/HomeServlet
www.lookupuk.com
www.ukbirth-adoptionregister.com
(both good for
adoptees) http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com,
(1837-1983: BMD=Birth marriages and Deaths), which now has
133 million
records http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/links.php?page=2
cindislist.com
www.lookupamerica.com
http://www.genealogyontheweb.com/
familysearch.com (Mormon
church), www.origins.net.gro
genuki.org.uk
Family.com,
Rootsweb.com
gro-scotland.gov.uk
www.censusonline.com (for
1881)
www.censusuk.co.uk
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm (Public Records
Office) familyrecords.gov.uk
www.a2a.org.uk is a government
site which means access to archives dating back as far as the year 900 !
Holocaust victims :
http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Welcome
Electric Scotland brings you comprehensive information on Scotland, Scots and people and places of Scottish descent with over 12,000 pages of information
The following have a payments system, although most are initially free
: Ancestry.com (recent
British/irish
update) FamilyHistoryonline.net
www.genesconnected.com,
OTHER SITES TO TRACK DOWN LONG LOST FRIENDS OR RELATIVES
. Some may charge to do research for you.
......http://publicrecord.cc/?rid=521669
www.18370nline.co.uk
www.familysearch.org
www.intellius.com (paid search-
USA) www.missing-you.net
http://people.yahoo.com
www.bigfoot.com
www.smartgroups.com
www.bureauofmissingheirs.com
www.probate.com (charge made)
www.british legion.org.uk
www.servicepals.com
www.missingpeople.com.
www.infospace.com
www.whowhere.com
www.switchboard.com
www.192.com (phone number,
address, electoral roll), www.411.com (U.S.
private phone numbers) Track old school/work/clubs friends:
www.friendsreunited.com
www.locatefirst.com/uk
(UK Electoral roll)
www.locatefirst.com/us (USA people
finder) www.essexvillages.net,
www.google.com,
www.askjeeves.com,
www.copernic.com
www.PRO.gov.uk (Public Records
Office)
www.Army.mod.uk.
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.asp
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