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Big hindrance to tracing ones family tree

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WestwardHo

WestwardHo Report 17 Feb 2011 10:12

Thank you all for your comments.

Regards,
Allan

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 14 Feb 2011 12:08

Baptismal records usually have the parents' names and birth certificates have, at the least, the mother's name.

Marriage certificates have the names of the fathers of the bride and groom (unless they are illegitimate).

Before 1837 it's more difficult to find the parents' names at marriage but if the parties were "of this parish" you may find their baptisms.

Gwynne

Researching:
Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

Joseph

Joseph Report 14 Feb 2011 12:00

I'm doing a bit of indexing for family.org and if marraige records from
the 1700s Norfolk are anything to go by, parent names were rarely, if ever present.

Janet

Janet Report 14 Feb 2011 11:15

There are ways and means of finding the parents but sometimes it takes a little bit of lateral thinking, but hey, thats what this game is about.
If you are stuck on how to progress, someone will always try to help- jle

Researching:
Mellors of Fulstone- Haighs of Fulstone- Haighs of Horbury -Fowlers of Sheffield -Ashton/Acomb of Keighley-Broadheads of Mearhouse-Nixons of Bradfield- Hopwood of Dewsbury and Elland-Procter/Proctors of Malham

WestwardHo

WestwardHo Report 14 Feb 2011 10:57

What I find really frustrating is that so many of these records do not show the name of the parents.

Without knowing the parents name you can't trace backwards into your family tree.

regards,
Allan