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UNWANTED CERTIFICATES

There is a board on TIPS BOARD called



DROP YOUR UNWANTED CERTIFICATES



If you paste that in search bar on Tips Board it will come up


There are loads of unwanted certs on there
They may have something you could use !!!!


Take a look

Good Luck!!

BOOKMARKING


If you find something that you would like to keep

Then Bookmark it!

You need to open the thread first
Then go to Yellow Box on left hand side of screen (Man in a Top Hat) and click Bookmark This!

Then whatever it is you have Bookmarked will go in your Bookmarks thread which is also in the yellow box.

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Please use a little punctuation, it's so difficult reading & understanding something without it.

If helping hands have found you information please copy it to your records so that it is safe

They have to clear their threads every now and again so you could lose it!

Website for information on family's in Berkeley, Thornbury and Gloucestershire

www.scibes-alcove.co.uk

And you can view BMD and 1871 census for free

A Website for anyone looking for parishes etc.


http://www.achurchnearyou.com/index.php

Lost Photos @ SGR
Trying to re-unite photographs with the family

www.lostphotos.sgrboards.org

you may post photo
post a message

nudging for HRH

Wikipedia is a great resource for just about anything!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lol

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SERVICE RECORDS



http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/military/navy/rnstep1.htm

I think another tip along the same vein as using punctuation is to please try and spell things properly - and to double check what you have written before posting a request for help. So many times people accidentally get the year wrong or spell a surname wrong.

Try to re-read what you are posting to make sure it makes sense - nothing worse than having to first of all work out what it is you want before then having to try and help!

I know a lot of us use acronyms on here but I find requests for help written like a text message pretty hard to get on with!

And remember - if you are looking for living people it might be best to post on the Trying to Find board. And if you are looking for current address information via the Electoral Roll - best to PM the people offering to do the searches rather than post information about living people on the boards.

And dont forget - politeness costs nothing...

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Oh and for Documents Online - such as WWI Medal Index Cards, Seamans Records, Pre 1858 Wills etc

Document downloads cost £3.50 each and come as a PDF.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

The advanced search is pretty good.

Also Access to Archives - great way to locate records held at other places

http://www.a2a.org.uk/

Also

www.freebmd.org.uk/search.pl?

Free transcribed indexes to Births Marriages and Deaths in England and Wales up to around the 1920s at the moment.

Easy to use

For records post 1920s you will have to manually searched through the scanned index pages on sites like www.ancestry.co.uk or www.findmypast.com - both of which are pay per view.

Some free census transcriptions

www.freecen.org.uk

and also some free parish register transcriptions

www.freereg.org.uk

They are always being updated with new data.

And helpful people who have parish registers who are willing to do lookups (I'm on there...)

Remember to give as much info as possible - most people will not do blanket look ups...

www.parishregisteruklook-upexchange.co.uk/

What is a GEDCOM?

A GEDCOM file is a file used to transfer family history reseach between different programmes, computers, websites and researchers.
GEDCOM files are not a 'tree' as such but can be used to create a printed tree when opened with software which can use the information they contain.
They contain text only, images, photographs and census images etc will NOT be included in a GEDCOM file but the all important names, dates, relationships etc are included.

How are they created?
To create a GEDCOM you do not need a family tree programme installed, if for example you have a tree on GR then you can 'export' your tree from GR as a gedcom file to your hard drive. However if you wish to use the GEDCOM file you will need some software installed to allow you to 'open' the file in the first place.
A GEDCOM from GR is sent as an e-mail attachment, without the additional software the file cannot be used but you can send the file to another site (such as tribal pages for example). This allows you to have a tree on another site without having to enter all the details manually.


For those of you who do have a software programme you can create a GEDCOM from your software package, this file can be 'exported' (sent) from your computer to another site, or sent to someone else who you wish to share your research with.

Additionaly software users can create a GEDCOM file of a specific part of their entire file, for instance you may wish to create a file for a distant relative based on your research into a specific surname within your tree and omit the names of unconnected branches.



So a GEDCOM file is a handy way to quickly share your file (or a part of it) elsewhere via the internet.

Receiving a file

Those of you who don't have a software package will find some problems if you receive a file, you can't open a file as a "tree" but you can open a file as a text document in either Word or Notepad. However if you do so then you will find even a very small file is a long document and extremely difficult to understand.

One option you have is to upload the file to a site (eg GR) BUT if you do so your existing tree will be overwritten. This means that your existing tree on GR for example will no longer available to you.
An option is to have a second membership and view the tree with the second membership but this is not an ideal situation.

For those of you who do have a software package you have several options.
It is possible to keep the gedcom as a separate tree on your software or to 'merge' the gedcom file into your existing tree.

Note though that you should keep the files separate until you can verify how accurate the details are, better to do that than add a file of say 100 names with dubious/incorrect dates and places etc.

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION SHOULD ALWAYS BE YOUR OBJECTIVE. BETTER A TREE OF 200 NAMES WITH CORRECT DETAILS THAN 1000 NAMES WITH ERRORS THROUGHOUT.

It is possible to verfiy parts of the gedcom and incorporate those parts whilst leaving the remaining unverified parts 'unmerged' if you need to.

You can also 'merge' any additional information from the file you wish, for instance notes for an individual can either be included in the merge or omitted, the same applies to census references and sources of information etc. Include those additional notes you wish to keep and exclude those that you do not want. Full details of how these can be included/omitted can be found with your software package.


As mentioned above, a GEDCOM file can be used without a software package, but your best option is to use some form of software.

For less than the cost of GR membership it is possible to buy a programme with all the bells and whistles, it will allow you to control what information you disclose to someone and allows you to withhold information about living relations or distant vranches if you wish.*****Update, check the price for the latest offers on software, typically the price is around the £10 mark but prices are subject to change********

Those who use software have the peace of mind that they can create a backup of their tree and view/print their tree without an internet connection and without relying on a third party as the only place to store your tree.

Just think for the cost of a certificate YOU CAN ENSURE YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR TREE INFORMATION AND ALSO REMOVE THE PROBLEMS OF TREE VIEWS ETC.

If GR were to 'lose' your tree there is no value attached to the tree, the months and years of work can vanish in moments and if you rtely solely on GR COULD YOU GET IT THE INFORMATION BACK EASILY?

Spend the money, use the GEDCOMS and protect yourself against loss of information.




Taken from Glen In fresh Tinsel Knickers on Tips board

Old Ordnance Survey Maps



Fantastic website: www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk


Cost £2.25 each and are worth every penny and more

Boer War research:

1901 CENSUS

Personnel serving in South Africa at the time of the 1901 census are not included on the census. However it should not be assumed that anyone missing from the census was serving in South Africa. There could be any number of reasons for this, not least the recently disclosed fact that hundreds of thousands of names have been inadvertently omitted from the 1901 census database.

Here's the link

http://freespace.virgin.net/anglers.rest/BWInfo.htm

Between 1869 and 1950s over 100,000 children were shipped to Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Many were not orphans but were deserted or sent without parental consent and listed below are some of the best sites to use:


There are are many children in there who were born and sent between censuses.
So do not actually appear on any UK census.
So please search for your surnames in the databases and help raise awareness of these schemes.

http://ist(.)uwaterloo(.)ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd(.)html

http://automatedgenealogy(.)com/index(.)html

http://freepages(.)genealogy(.)rootsweb(.)com/~tweetybirdgenealogy/

http://charsnow(.)tripod(.)com/one/

http://freepages(.)genealogy(.)rootsweb(.)com/~britishhomechildren/

http://www.collectionscanada(.)gc(.)ca/archivianet/home-children/index-e(.)html

http://bhc(.)kindredbond(.)com

Remove Brackets

If you have a Date of Birth, Marriage or Death then you can apply by post for the Certificate or in the case of Northern Ireland by post or phone.

However, you will need to know WHERE the event took place.

NORTHERN IRELAND GRO:

http://www.groni.gov.uk/index.htm


The Beginnings of Registration

In 1845 legislation came into force which provided for the registration of civil marriages in Ireland and for the regulation of all non Roman Catholic marriages. It also created the Office of the Registrar General who remains to this day responsible for the collation and custody of all birth, death and marriage records.

Further legislation, which became operative in 1864, provided for the inclusion of Roman Catholic marriages, together with birth and deaths. A comprehensive registration system was now in place.
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SOUTHERN IRELAND (Eire) GRO:

http://www.groireland.ie/

Our records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845 . Records of Births, Deaths and Roman Catholic Marriages date back to 1st January 1864


NB. For those who are looking for certificates relating to Co. Dublin only and you dont have a date..

I have obtained plenty of my family certificates by sending the application forms (printed off from the Southern Ireland website) and sending them to the Dublin Records Office with an accompanying letter stating that I don't have a date but they were probably married/born around 18xxx and could you search for 10 years back from 18xx. It costs a bit extra, but it saves you having to apply again, as they will normally search 4 or 5 years from a given approx year on your application form.
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The Superintendent Registrar
Joyce House,
8-11 Lombard St East,
Dublin 2
Ireland.

NEW ADDRESS FOR DUBLIN RECORDS OFFICE



The research room at the General Registers Office in Lombard Street, Dublin has been transferred.

The new location is on the

3rd Floor
Block 7
Irish Life Building
Lower Abbey Street,
Dublin

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LOTS OF IRISH BIRTH RECORDS ON THE LDS website,

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?


especially between 1864 and 1880. Most of these are 'Extracted birth records from the records listed in the locality'. Lots of earlier ones from the 1600 and 1700's. Not so many from 1800 - 1859.

If you find a record on the IGI section of familysearch.org/ website that you think is one of your ancestors, you can apply for the Birth, Death or Marriage certificate too from the appropriate GRO if the record states that it was an Extract from the civil registration records....

Be wary though that 'Records submitted by a Members of the LatterDay Saints' are not always correct.