Genealogy Chat

Thank you Andy for starting this thread and also thank you Dawn for the site goodwebguide I have been on it for ages and found a lot of good sites I didn't know about. Regards Jill

The London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes www(.)gazettes-online(.)co(.)uk are useful if you have rellies who were in the Civil Service, had commissions during WW2 or were awarded medals. My grandfather was in the Ministry of Transport for 35 years and I found most of his promotions. My father had a junior commission in the RAF during WW2 and I found his details too. I even found some details of other family members who sat Civil Service exams to join the Post Office. I also found a few references to wills and bankruptcies. The layout of the site has changed recently and I find it a bit more complicated to navigate than before. However, if you click 'Archive' on the tab at the top, you should get somewhere! And it's FREE! :-)

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Great idea Andy, Nudging - so the thread is'nt lost Glynis

I've been to the library this afternoon & borrowed a book called 'thegoodwebguide Genealogy'. It lists loads of really useful websites covering all topics, but best of all they have there own website - www(.)thegoodwebguide(.)co(.)uk (remove the brackets). Click on Genealogy & it takes you to a massive list of up to date sites and a review of them. Very interesting and well worth a look.

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This is a great idea, Well done Andy. Any new suggestions are most welcome. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb(.)com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm what a useful site!!

FANTASTIC thread ANDY...I'm another In-Betweeny....and I'm finding all sorts of good info on this thread. Thank you. I found a Will to be a tremendous help with my Tree. It tied my gggrandfather in Scotland to my ggrandfather in England by him being mentioned in the Will. Until that time , I had no idea where my ancesters came from in Scotland.It also gave me insight into the relationships within the family. Margaret

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Hi If anyone has any tips on Mariners/seamen I would love to know them. Mine are from Hull/Lincolnshire/London areas - but any general advise would be welcome. Particularly in finding the devils on census returns!! Thanks Cheryl

hey this is grt. i have recently found myself hitting some brick walls am im sure with this thred i can find more places to search, CHEERS ppl. laura X

thanks to those who've nudged this, I would have liked to have added more contributions myself but research isn't such a high priority for me at the moment. But please keep this going. Cheers...

Thanks, Netti. Something else for me to try out, and a good excuse not to do the boring things I ought to be doing. Anne

the Hugh Wallis site allows you to select individual churches that have been indexed by the mormons (latterday saints). You can check what period has been covered and search for a particular surname on a church by church basis. go to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb(.)com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm (remove brackets) I must admit I haven't read the whole site and jump straight to the country selection pages. netti x

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Eliza, Me, too. I've seen this in replies, bur I'm not sure what ti means, or how it applies Thanks for help Anne

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This is a very helpful thread, thanks. I have found a lot of information on Hugh Wallis' sites. Both the IGI Batch number one and the one for Middle Names that could be surnames. It is best to google 'hugh wallis sites' and it will show you the web addresses. A huge store of knowledge although it may be wise to check at other sources, since these are transcribed through LDS. The batch numbers save a great deal of time in looking up people with common names. Margaret. Keep nudging.

OCCUPATIONS - TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THEM, GO TO THIS SITE Remove all brackets. http://rmhh(.)co(.)uk/occup/index(.)html CB >|<