So I guess it was one of those things that I always said I would do one day. To be honest I never talked much about the family history with my mum and dad. No idea why, just that we never talked much about family of the past. I always got little bits, but nothing that stuck in my mind.
I start the job last month with Ancestry "Family Tree Maker" Software. Before jumping into the pot and paying out membership fees to use the site, I felt it was worth doing as much work as possible with what I could find on the web. You will be surprised what you can find.
The first job. Talk to the parents and enter in the software as much information possible. kicks of the process. I spent about a couple of weeks doing this task on and off. I then found myself wanting to get to the census information. So I paid for two census of the 1911 site. the census will give you a lot of informaiton, which I will post as another blogg in the future.
So what else is it worth doing? Well I have joined up on a couple of forums. www.rootschat.com comes over a very friend and useful site. You get a load of tips here. The other site to go to is the http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Here you get good info from the records that have been transcibed.. Finally the other place to go, whihc will give you links to other areas is UK Births, Marriages and Deaths site http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ I say links to others as some counties have then done their own sites, whihc give you great details and a place to order copies of the records.
Going to finish off at this point for now. I will try and bring you other bits on my family tree task as well as writing up on Gaskell's of the past that I come across.
No comments:
Post a Comment