'Cheap & Free Ways to Trace Your Ancestry'

bluedog

I've just had an email from Roots Magic regarding the new Rootsmagic 4. If you bought Rootsmagic 3 on or after 1st August 2008, you may be entitled to a free upgrade:


"Free Upgrades
If you purchased RootsMagic 3 on or after August 1, 2008 or as part of a special genealogy conference offer during 2008-09, you are eligible for a free downloadable upgrade of RootsMagic 4 by visiting http://www.rootsmagic.com/myupgrade and entering information about your original order. Please allow up to 48 hours for processing as we must manually verify each request to verify that it qualifies."


I bought my copy in September last year from Amazon so am giving it a go. Fingers crossed!

wednesdaywhirled

newlywed wrote: »

Does anyone know where to find a list of some of the job definitions for the census? Eg what was a Tob Master??

More likely it's 'Job Master' - someone who supplied horses, carriages and drivers for hire

There are several sites which list old occupations - see genuki.org.uk for a list

daysleeper23

#54

"I was only able to view indexes to Births Marriages and Deaths at the Library yesterday morning and not the actual records on Ancestry.com. Has anyone been able to view the actual records on Ancestry.com at their Library free of charge or am I just unlucky in that my local Library has limited subscription to this site. I was able, however, to look at Census records so this was very helpful."

Mirabelle - Ancestry, Freebmd and other similar websites only contain the birth marriage and death indexes, not scans or transcripts of the actual certificates. You must pay for these I'm afraid, from the GRO they are £7.

daysleeper23

wednesdaywhirled wrote: »

More likely it's 'Job Master' - someone who supplied horses, carriages and drivers for hire

There are several sites which list old occupations - see genuki.org.uk for a list

I agree that it's probably job master or jobmaster. Look here for more useful info on occupations and other genealogy topics.

nbedin

It is exceptionally rare for any mistake to be discovered on the MSE site.

Unfortunately this one is a corker - and commonplace (forgive me, I am, similarly, a 'correct apostrophe' nut!!)

The word is geneAlogy, NOT geneOlogy

Thanks

Nbedin:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

kmh13

Hi guys, I realise that this is not exactly what the thread is about but you all seem so knowledgeable I thought you might be able to help.

My Junior class will be studying local history next term and I'd really like them to be able to use census info, directories and other primary sources to track what's been going on in our Kent village , back as far as we can go. I thought for example they could track who'd lived in a particular house, or did a particular job at different times.

A visit, with them all, to the local library is a little impractical. Do you know of any good websites where this information is availale? I have of course noted them many good sites already listed on this thread.

Thanks to you all in advance.

AdrianR_2

kmh13 wrote: »

A visit, with them all, to the local library is a little impractical. Do you know of any good websites where this information is availale? I have of course noted them many good sites already listed on this thread.

I believe the 1881 census is free, but I am not sure if you can see the images on it. Which village is it, and would it be good to see the whole village as a snapshot in 1881? If you cannot see the images, most of the data should be transcribed. You would get an idea of occupations, numbers in a family, where villagers had been born etc.

If you are trying to track people, that gets more difficult and suggests subscriptions!

AdrianR_2

Have a look here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/ken.htm
I found this 1885 Kent map
http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/bc-kent.htm
click it and zoom in

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AdrianR_2

Doing a bit more thinking, your best bet is to get in touch with the local family history society. They would give you much more local history and be able to perhaps take artefacts into school.

Try these contacts

First
Kent FHS

address:
Mrs Yvonne Larkins, 7 Kipling Place, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 3NG
email:
secretary@kfhs.org.uk
website:
https://www.kfhs.org.uk

Then
Folkestone & District FHS

address:
Mrs Janet Powell, Kingsmill Hill, Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5JJ
email:
secretary@folkfhs.org.uk
website:
https://www.folkfhs.org.uk

North West Kent FHS

address:
Mrs Vera Bailey, 58 Clarendon Gardens, Stone, Dartford, Kent, DA2 6EZ
email:
secretary@nwkfhs.org.uk
website:
https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk

Also listed under London (Greater London)
Tunbridge Wells FHS

address:
Veronica Siddall, 'Yew Tree Byre', Yew Tree Lane, Rotherfield, East Sussex TN6 3QP
email:
secretary@tunwells-fhs.co.uk
website:
https://www.tunwells-fhs.co.uk

Also listed under Sussex
Woolwich & District FHS

address:
Sue Highley, 121 Crofton Ave, Bexley, Kent, DA5 3AU
email:
suhiwfhs@tiscali.co.uk

Also listed under London (Greater London)

Norman-B

Thank you to all the above posters for all the superb tips!