Tracing Family trees

devilincarnate · 15-09-2011, 19:27

Has anyone tried this and also if so how have you got on? I do not want to say who I'am and my partner are looking for ( so PM if you are doing the same (we may have some in common ) PLease feel free to PM )

We are using Gene's Reunited

Hom3r · 15-09-2011, 19:48

IIRC these will only tell you people from the past and not anybody living

devilincarnate · 15-09-2011, 20:30

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

IIRC these will only tell you people from the past and not anybody living

That is exactly what I am trying to do

I was just asking for people that may have done it or had experience of doing it?

MadGamer · 15-09-2011, 21:22

My sister is currently doing one for our family, and shes using http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

**Chris** · 15-09-2011, 22:17

My dad did some of ours in the early 90s. No interwebs back then, mind; he trekked around central libraries and parishes from Preston to Shrewsbury and many points in between. The story still has gaps (he's hoping I'll take it on now and no doubt I'll do it online) but having gone with him on some of his trips, there's nothing to compare with tracking down the farm your great, great grandfather ran, getting a tour around it and a cup of tea with the current tenant in the same kitchen your ancestors ate their meals in.

yesman · 15-09-2011, 22:22

Here are a few sites that may be of some assistance...

http://www.1901censusonline.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/familyhistory/
http://www.britishdataarchive.com/
https://www.familysearch.org/
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/home.jsp
http://thegenealogist.sandn.net/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php

I tried tracing my family tree, but gave up after about two years having traced them back to the early 1800's, prior to that information was very scarce.

Good luck

raging bull · 15-09-2011, 22:44

Currently an active 'chaser of the dead'.
Use 'sheffieldindexers' if looking around Sheffield!
Me I am in West Yorkshire.

linkinghabit · 18-09-2011, 15:52

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Originally Posted by MadGamer

My sister is currently doing one for our family, and shes using http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

let me also try this one..it's fun i guess to trace your relatives from one gen to another...

Ken W · 18-09-2011, 16:10

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Originally Posted by linkinghabit

let me also try this one..it's fun i guess to trace your relatives from one gen to another...

Very often ancesty give a free trial.

Most libraries have free access to ancesty after you have registerd with the library.

I have traced back to the mid 1700s so far.

raging bull · 18-09-2011, 20:33

My family are traceable to 1490, and living within 1Km of where I live.
(Although they did move about a bit)

Ken W · 18-09-2011, 21:17

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Originally Posted by Ken W

Very often ancesty give a free trial.

Most libraries have free access to ancesty after you have registerd with the library.

I have traced back to the mid 1700s so far.

Correction I meant the mid 1600s.

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Originally Posted by raging bull

My family are traceable to 1490, and living within 1Km of where I live.
(Although they did move about a bit)

You are doing well

raging bull · 18-09-2011, 21:47

Yes Ken, but that's about as far as we can go without digging a few monks up!
Ancient relatives worked at the local abbey.

Uncle Peter · 22-09-2011, 21:42

Been doing mine for quite a few years now with much blood, sweat and legwork expended. Most of my mam's side settled in Liverpool and Manchester from Ireland which makes things a wee bit difficult with most of the Irish census records prior to 1901 being destroyed in a fire. RC parish register coverage is a bit sketchy at best (if they still exist even) and even then you're lucky to find anything before the early 1800s.

As for my dad's side, well haven't really started yet but that oddyssey will take me to Poland, Ukraine, Russia and wherever the records point to. Found some of my uncles on the "index of the repressed" having been sent to Siberia during the war.

Findmypast have just officially released their Manchester collection for anyone around these parts with some excellent coverage of the workhouse creed registers and prison registers. My GG Grandfather turned up on the Strangeways register having been picked up "drunk and riotous" in Salford. A fine figure of a man with a plethora of tattoos including a scull and crossbones on his right arm!