General Chat

Lisa
I have started to write short pieces for some of my ancestors called "A Day in the Life of...." it is good fun and also increases our knowledge of how people lived, and suddenly they become alive.
have you tried this?

good luck

Bridget

Thank you all for your tips and ideas.
I have registered with the library and have my pin so the supper dishes may not get done this evening!
Unfortunately my subscription has expired with ancestry and I am not in a position to afford to continue running 2.
I have also found a site called ancestorhunt.com which has some prison records so will have a good nose through those.
I am looking forward to further research and making my family come alive (as best I can after all these years of being dead lol)
Thanks again
Lisa x

Lisa,

Jonesey has a thread on the tips board;

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1232629

It's really good. I joined on-line last week and have my membership card all ready. You can use the site as soon as you register (FREE!!!) as they send you a code.


happy hunting,


Dee x

Hi Lisa
If you look on the Tips board, Jonesey has headed one of his useful tips about FREE viewing of 19th century newspapers at the Lancashire library online. I can only recommend this, but be warned, it does get addictive.

There are some 17th and 18th century newspaper. Just a minor problem if you put in a keyword in the earlier newspaper, the paper still uses the elongated 's' which to all intents and purposes looks like an 'f' in print so if a keyword contains the letter 's' you would have to enter an 'f' for example if a relative was called Miss Brown, it would have to be entered as 'Mifs Brown'. By the 19th century this seems to have resolved itself.- enjoy- JLe

I've had some really good finds by googling the town where my family lived , there are often sites which have photos. Also googling the name of an ancestor and occupation if unusual, I've found references in two old 'travel' type books.

Are you in Ancestry Lisa? If so you can research the Victorian Criminal Registers, county by county. I discovered that my Great Great Great Grandparents, (yes - both of them), were accused of Assault with intent to murder ! They were found not guilty, if they had been I suppose I would now be an Australian. Transportation to Botany Bay would almost certainly have been the sentence.

hi lisa, what i started to do was download google earth and then type in some adresses of where my birth home was and grandparents etc and so on and looked them up on google earth street view. when i located some of the original properties still standing today, i saved them to a file to be printed out later when i write up the tree and family history.

obviously some of the properties have gone and new houses and flats have been built in their place, but a few in the country and in the north are still standing and its amazing that we can look at them today.

if you dont have this already download it as its free and easy to use. all you need is a postcode or adress and off you go to visit!

good luck with you research
florence

While waiting, I would look for books in the library, to read about the places where they lived, the social history, the transport in their times, fashions etc :-)

Hi All
I would love some advice on what to do while twiddling my thumbs waiting for certificates to arrive.
At the moment I am only looking for births, marriages and deaths but would love to learn more about my ancestors i.e. were any ever in the newspapers or did anybody go to jail.
Where would I start looking for information like this, is there any thing else I could possibly find out?
Would love to hear how people find out all the gossip from their past
Thanks
Lisa x