family tree -SPEARS , Wiltshire > Tasmania
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Re: family tree -spears
| JeffH01 (View posts) | Posted: 7 May 2008 12:28AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Liz,
At first I was wondering what exactly you were after then I notice from your posting history your fairly new to family history research so I assume your looking for the basics.
If your going to be delving into your UK ancestry then get yourself a good book on genealogy and the one, if not the best, is Ancestrial Trails by Mark D Herber. It was completely revised to include the expanding sources on the interenet and it also contains loads of references to publications for those looking for more details on particular items.
With the exception of LDS Family History Centres, I’m not going to refer to offline sources as they can vary depending on where in the world you are.
Now the key sources you need are the GRO Index to Births, Marriages and Death Registrations in England & Wales 1837 to 2006. Much of these BMD indexes [1837-1900 + [onging project] have been transcribed and are avialble FREE online at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ and using the reference details you can order copies of event certificates from the GRO web site at http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ .
For any you can’t find an entry or your looking outside the range o freeBMD, the GRO page images are available either by pay per view or via subscription at both Ancestry.co.uk or findmypast.com.
The 1901 census is available at http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ [free to search] but payment for transcription and census page images.
Other census years are available in limited for at http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ and at various stages of completion at Ancestry.co.uk and findmypast.com; in all cases, but especially Ancestry the quality of transcription and indexing varies so I [and many Family History Societies] recommend using more than one source.
Basic guides online can vary but being aware that the company isn’t going to point you to free sources or competitors there is a series of useful guides available via the help pages of findmypast.com.
For research pre 1837, the 1881 census, see the LDS Family search site at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/welcome.asp , but be aware that many non-conformist [in cludes Roman Catholic] churches would’t allow the LDS access to film their records.
Other useful pages with links are GENUKI at http://www.genuki.org.uk/ , General Genealogy Links at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ge... ,
Barbara Dixon’s guides to BMD certificates at http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm , and Cyndi’s list at http://www.cyndislist.com/ .
Good hunting
Jeff
At first I was wondering what exactly you were after then I notice from your posting history your fairly new to family history research so I assume your looking for the basics.
If your going to be delving into your UK ancestry then get yourself a good book on genealogy and the one, if not the best, is Ancestrial Trails by Mark D Herber. It was completely revised to include the expanding sources on the interenet and it also contains loads of references to publications for those looking for more details on particular items.
With the exception of LDS Family History Centres, I’m not going to refer to offline sources as they can vary depending on where in the world you are.
Now the key sources you need are the GRO Index to Births, Marriages and Death Registrations in England & Wales 1837 to 2006. Much of these BMD indexes [1837-1900 + [onging project] have been transcribed and are avialble FREE online at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ and using the reference details you can order copies of event certificates from the GRO web site at http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ .
For any you can’t find an entry or your looking outside the range o freeBMD, the GRO page images are available either by pay per view or via subscription at both Ancestry.co.uk or findmypast.com.
The 1901 census is available at http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ [free to search] but payment for transcription and census page images.
Other census years are available in limited for at http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ and at various stages of completion at Ancestry.co.uk and findmypast.com; in all cases, but especially Ancestry the quality of transcription and indexing varies so I [and many Family History Societies] recommend using more than one source.
Basic guides online can vary but being aware that the company isn’t going to point you to free sources or competitors there is a series of useful guides available via the help pages of findmypast.com.
For research pre 1837, the 1881 census, see the LDS Family search site at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/welcome.asp , but be aware that many non-conformist [in cludes Roman Catholic] churches would’t allow the LDS access to film their records.
Other useful pages with links are GENUKI at http://www.genuki.org.uk/ , General Genealogy Links at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ge... ,
Barbara Dixon’s guides to BMD certificates at http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm , and Cyndi’s list at http://www.cyndislist.com/ .
Good hunting
Jeff