'Cheap & Free Ways to Trace Your Ancestry'

*emsj21*

I have a subscription to Ancestry and would be happy to do a search for you if you wish. I'd need name, date of birth (even if it's a rough one) and ideally town of birth. PM me if you'd like me to look.

Em

pulliptears

Thanks to Crutches especially for all their help! Unfortunately I managed to get the wrong George Williams, but having now found the right one I have established that we did indeed have a Circus trainer in the family. He was an Hostler (horse trainer) for the famous Barnham & Bailey's Circus!

DD will be delighted! thanks again all!

RAS

Ain't that lovely.

Nice whne a bit of family gossip proves to be true.

pulliptears

RAS wrote: »

Ain't that lovely.

Nice whne a bit of family gossip proves to be true.

Apparently my Uncle even has a very old, grainy picture of him complete with the moustache!

crutches

glad you got the right one in the end.And glad the wrong one was a relation too.

pulliptears

crutches wrote: »

glad you got the right one in the end.And glad the wrong one was a relation too.

Strange, we never realised we had roots in Wolves! Fascinating stuff and Im currently batting my eyelashes at OH for membership hehe

Thanks again hun!

NEH

Not sure if this is the right place...apologies if it isn't...

I am interested in finding about my family history however we don't have the money right now to investigate it...

Anyway my husband recommended Genes reunited so that I could put all the bits I do know into a family tree and it isn't scribbled in a notebook that way.

I have one silly question though, my husband has put me in his family tree under my maiden name yet when i do mine Genes Reunited puts me under my married name. My husband says that i should put it back to my maiden name is this right?

pinkclouds

For genealogical purposes, you should always use your maiden name.

NEH

pinkclouds wrote: »

For genealogical purposes, you should always use your maiden name.

Thanks, it's silly as that's what i might have put but Genes reunited defer to your married name for some reason...

RAS

Hi

You can do quite a lot of family history at very little cost, if you can access libaries near where your family come from. It rather depends on the area but the central library in my local area has the census records for the whole county, St Catherine's (BMD) Index and parish records (baptisms, marriages and burials) for the district. The one near work has all the parish records I need plus local census records and St Catherines index.