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Contents:
1. Our welcome message.
2.
Featured Article
– Family Tree Search: How To Find Your Ancestors - Jim
Ackroyd
3. News
from Ancestry.co.uk -
4. News from www.GenesReunited.co.uk
5. Next
Months Featured Article:
Article from Roger Reid
submitted to the OGS Families - Article from Roger Reid
1. Our welcome message.
Another hectic month has passed. Thankfully Carol has
recovered from her fall. Thanks for all the kind messages.
I hope everyone here in the UK is enjoying the current
series of 'Who Do You Think You Are'. Carol found a link with the Fox
family on one of the shows starring
Emilia
Fox. She's so excited
she booked a room at a Harrogate hotel so we can check out some of the
information gleaned from the TV show.
We have the second of our two
part back to basics articles for our new subscribers. I'm sure everyone
will enjoy this article.
Enjoy. Jim - Editor.
2.
Featured Article:
Family Tree Search: How To Find Your Ancestors By
Jim Ackroyd
Are you planning on making your family tree? Are you
curious to find where you come from and uncover your family's history
throughout the years? You must know that it's not an easy task and you
will need time and effort to create a complete family tree. You have to be
organized and patient. But when you're done the feeling you get is really
unique. So let's start.
I will try to give you some basic tips to get you started but you must
remember that you need to research a lot unless there's already some kind
of family tree created by some of your ancestors.
If you are serious, invest on a family tree software that will organize
all the information you find. Paperwork may become overwhelming as you
will notice.
You will need a lot of paper.
Use a single sheet of paper for every person/ancestor in your family. Then
make small family groups of ancestors. You will write information you find
for every person in the single piece of paper that belongs to that person.
And you will write a summary of the information from all persons who
belong to a family group to the sheet of paper that belongs to a certain
family group. For example for your family group (e.g. you, your spouse and
your 3 children), use 6 sheets of paper one for every member of the family
and one for the family group (5 members and 1 family group).
In the ancestor sheet of paper you will write all kinds of information you
find about that particular person: Date Born, Birthplace, Marriage Date,
Date of Death, Father's Name, Mother's Name, Spouse Name and all other
information you decide is worth mentioning in the family tree.
In the family group sheet of paper you will write a summary of the
information you have gathered from all persons who belong to that family
group: Number of members, Husband, Wife, Children and other kind of
information you might find and want to include.
Now it's time to work and research. Start with yourself and your family.
Gather information from your parents and their children. Then your
grandparents and their children. Remember to keep track of the family
groups and the sheets of paper that belong to each ancestor. As you go
back in time you may need to contact other relatives, family friends or
even researchers. Ask them to help you fill the information on your sheets
of paper. Tell them you are creating a family tree for your entire family.
It's a good idea to keep a family tree log of your actions. For example
when you find a birth certificate update your family tree log writing the
date that you found that death certificate and the person that death
certificate belongs to.
Check out if there's already someone who has created a family tree for a
certain family group. Use that information to save time but verify if the
information you find is correct. Look for wedding books, divorce papers,
birth or death certificates, funeral cards, awards, diplomas, school
books, employment records, military records, medical records and anything
that you might find useful. You can obtain a lot of information from such
papers like dates, ages, parents, witnesses etc. If you are really
motivated and determined to create a family tree, this journey to the past
will be fascinating.
And now let's move on to the fun part. After you have gathered all the
information you need, it's time to design your family tree. You may want
to use paper and fill the information so that it is organized and easy to
access. But I'm sure after all that paperwork you will definitely need
help from a family tree software that will save you a lot of time.
We use and recommend Family Tree Maker available from
www.Ancestry.co.uk .
There are lots more family tree programs out there but we find FTM the
best.
3. News from Ancestry.co.uk (www.Ancestry.co.uk Join
or get a free trial here.)
Here's my latest email I received from
Ancestry.
Hi James
NEW Irish records
Today, we have exploded the myth that its always difficult to discover
your family history in Ireland.
We have released millions of new records to make it far easier to
trace your roots on the Emerald Isle through the past 300 years.
First, you will find a host of new Catholic parish records from the
18th and 19th centuries.
Even though the official Church of Ireland was Anglican, the vast
majority of Irelands people stuck to Catholicism, so these are your
best bet for finding early births, marriages and deaths.
Crucially, these parish records go back before the Great Famine, and
the mass Irish exodus that followed.
This means you can discover entire families that later left to find
new homes in Britain, America or even further afield.
We have also released huge indexes to Irelands civil births, marriages
and deaths from 1864 until 1958.
As a special bonus, we have also given you Ireland, Births and
Baptisms, 1620 until 1881, a collection of more than 5 million births
taken from church, civil, family and other records. If you cannot find
your ancestors in our new Catholic or civil registers, there is a
great chance you will spot them here.
In total, we now have over 45 million records to help you discover
your family Irish story. Learn more about all our Irish records at
4. News from
www.GenesReunited.co.uk
From an email I received from:
www.GenesReunited.co.uk
Hi James,
To coincide with the 97th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, Genes
Reunited have released a variety of military records!
From today people interested in tracking down their ancestors from WW1
and the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 can visit
www.GenesReunited.co.uk
and search the latest records listed below:
- Royal Naval Officers' Medal Roll 1914-1920
- New Zealand WWI Soldiers, an index of 288,526 both male and female
service personnel from 1914-1919
- Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919
- Records containing over 258,800 names of the men and women who fought
during the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
The Royal Naval Officers records contain the complete WW1 Campaign Medal
Rolls from 1914 - 1920 for 53,000 Royal Navy Officers. The transcriptions
include the service details for Officers killed in action and those who
died of wounds during WW1, in many cases they also contain post WW1 deaths
and some WW2 deaths.
5. Next months featured article:
Article from Roger Reid submitted to the OGS
Families
A humorous look at the lives of people
researching their family history. Perhaps you have spent too much time on
your family history if some of these fit you.
I really hope you
enjoyed this months newsletter. And in case you forgot earlier -
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Jim. Editor
http://jamesackroyd.com/
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