Family Tree Research (merged)

newbiemum05

look in the yellow pages for your local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Call them up and ask for the number of the local family history centre. (my nearest one is in Kirkcaldy) the people who work there are very friendly and helpful - you have free access to ancestry etc at the centres, but you usually need to call before hand to book a computer and find out the opening times as they vary.

Dr.Lou

Your local council should have an archive office which you should be able to use free of charge. We have a local one and the staff were pretty helpful in helping us find the right archives and books etc. It depends on whether your family originate from the area that you live at now, but if they do it could be worthwhile to start there.

We found that the ancestry.com free trials are pretty good for finding out further information. Especially for relatives who did not live in our local area, and also for searching emmigration records etc.

plumpmouse

I recommend Genes reunited as well, I have been in touch with large numbers of people via the site. Ancestry is good, do you know anyone else who is doing the same as you could share log in and cost

Gabriel-Ernest

Also try Rootsweb; there's a huge amount of info on other people's family trees with free access.

lorientgirl

our local library has free access to ancestry.co and ancestry.com as well as an archive section. That might be worth checking out. You can check every census between 1841 and 1901. I found a distant relative throughthe site who had also looked into our family . She had already applied for birth certificates etc and sent me copies.

inkie

Copies of birth/death/marriage certificates are ordered direclty from the area in which the registration took place - e.g. on monday last week I phoned the registry office, and the certificate was here with me on Wed am for a total cost of £7.00. I have notices that quite a few web-sited charge a lot more than this!

tillymint

Another useful website is family search. You can access the 1881 census for free without the need for any login.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

If you have a Church of the Latter Day Saints near you their geneaolgy centres are open to anyone just ring up and book a fiche reader. They are there to help you if you want it but no pressure of any kind. The one near me is just like going into a very modern library. They have census info for the whole country.

HTH someone

Anthillmob

i found googling the names with " and " around the names was a great help but only because maybe i have a strange surname.

there are some free census records out there that you dont have to pay for but im b*ggeed if i can remember where i searched for this info as ive just got back onto doing the family tree again.

are you using genes reunited? if so contact people in your 'hot matches' they may be able to help.

Anthillmob

incedentally i have a name in my tree where no one is sure he belongs. ive seen his census record and his wife and kids etc but cannot firgure out where he actually fits in the tree and neither can anyone else.

essexgal

another site to bear in mind is

https://www.rootschat.com

currently the number of members is at 40685 - so you've a good chance of finding relevant information.

free to use message forum (pretty much like MSE - but with a better search facility ) for people researching their family history, mainly based on the UK but does have immigrant / emigrant boards too.

Various boards, i.e. County boards, census look up boards, beginners boards, occupations boards, armed forces, travelling families, etc, etc.

Worth a look even if you don't want to post a message, there are enough links to various sources to keep you happy for months;) - but you'll find the folks on there are only to happy to help you, and some of them are very knowledgeable indeed.

There is also a Surname Interest Table (commonly referred to as SIT ) where you can post your interests and see if anyone else has the same surnames in the same areas.

Happy researching



essexgal