Carls Cam
This is a free site dedicated to providing photos of Cheshire places of family history interest. There is an index of images which can be accessed including memorials and churches as well as a gazetteer of place names in the area. CARROLLS IRISH GENEALOGY PAGE w www.carroll.co.uk irish irish.htm A family tree site set up by John Carroll details his ancestry in historical context, from the Eberian Kings through Medieval Ireland and the English Civil War. Worth a look if you are thinking of...
Alderson Fhs
13 Spring Grove, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2HS w www.afhs.org e secretary afhs.org Number of members 200 Founded 1983 Membership 8 per year This group meets twice-yearly to collect and analyse Alderson family history, with a particular focus on UK genealogies. A newsletter is published three times a year. The Hon Secretary, c o Alloway Library, Doonholm Rd, Ayr, KA7 4QQ w www.maybole.org history resources asafhs.htm e asafhs mtcharlesayr.fsnet.co.uk Number of members 100 Founded 1997...
History Of Civil Registration
The civil registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced to England and Wales on 1 July 1837. For the first time these events would be recorded for all the population, before this only the incomplete church and chapel records are available. This is not quite true though, as when the initial legislation came into force registration wasn't compulsory, so you may not find an entry that you expect to be there in the early years. This is especially true of births. Many were wary of - or...
Ross
Pam Smith is looking for info about her birth mother Can anyone help with information about my mother, Florence Ross Perhaps there are members of her family or any friends who remember her family or any friends who remember her and can tell me about her. I was adopted in 1946. Florence lived in Sunderland but stayed at a home for unmarried mothers in Gateshead up to my birth. I think the enclosed photo was taken at the home but I'm not sure. Florence is the dark-haired lady on the left - does...
Bancroft
Bangcroft Bancraft Bancrofte Bencroft Bankroft Bankcroft This is a locative surname, indicating someone who lived in or came from Bancroft in Ardeley, Hertfordshire, or Bancroft Field in Soham, Cambridgeshire. These place names come from two Old English words, bean and croft, meaning 'bean' and 'small enclosed field' - probably a field in which beans were grown. Early references to the surname include Stephen de Bancroft, who is listed in 1222 in the records of St Paul's Cathedral. His surname...
Easy Mosaic 506 Home
Last issue, we gave you the chance to p make morphing movies using photos of your ancestors. This month, we'll try something equally interesting. Easy Mosaic 5.06 Home is a full program worth 29.95. It enables you to create an image that is made up of hundreds or thousands of smaller images in mosaic fashion. So just imagine this. You've been collecting and scanning in old photographs of the people in your family tree. A child or grandchild is born. Wouldn't it be an interesting project to...
Marriag Records
CERTIFICATES CHURCH REGISTERS LOCAL REPORTS MORE How to trace the bride, groom and the happy event - all you need to know I stood there in the pub, on the spot where my great-greatgrandfather was gunned down Murder, poetry and an offensive dung heap, in our Case Studies starting page 40 Records of failed marriages can also Trace your family tree using our birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002 British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994 including WW1, WW2 and...
By Doreen Hopwood
Most people only have one surname, but each of us has two parents. Most were married. Fortunately for family historians, records of marriages have been kept in Britain for centuries. They are therefore one of the key building blocks of family trees. Anthony Adolph looks at these wonderful records in detail, and explores how best to find and use them In most cases, marriage records will open up a new line for research. Besides tracing back the groom's surname line, you will also have a new...
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Quebec Fhs
With so many ancestors moving between the United Kingdom and Canada over the years it's no surprise that the Quebec FHS lists the UK and Ireland as high on the agenda of so many of its members interests. The site, while offering standard FHS information regarding membership and meetings, also QUAKERS If your research turns up Quaker ancestors, this dedicated site is rich in detail provides an FAQ section on the history of Quebec Province. QUEENSLAND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY w www.qfhs.org.au...
Genealogy file formats
We explain the file types you're most likely to come across while researching ANC AHN Native formats of Our Family Tree. You can convert them into GEDCOM files, too. BAK A native format of Personal Ancestral File. You can also convert these into GEDCOM files. DAT Another native format of Personal Ancestral File. Again, convertible to GEDCOM. DjVu Pronounced d j vu, this is a compressed graphics format commonly used to display scanned pages on the web. The pages appear in much the same way that...
A Shorthand Report
I have recently received the coroner's report for my ancestor, Thomas Suffolk, who died suddenly in 1883 at his home in Birmingham. The two witnesses were his wife and half-brother who married a year later, so could there have been foul play I am very interested in the statements they made to the coroner, but they are still in the original Pitman Shorthand form. The Coroner's Office and Reference Library do not do transcriptions, and I have contacted the Brasshouse Language Centre, but have...
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PUBLISHER Archive CD Books w www.archivecdbooks.org t 01594 829 870 This is billed as a full set of census images taken in 1861 for the county of Essex - but before you dive in, and not just with this offering, it's worth noting that census records are organised by Registration Districts which don't necessarily correspond exactly with county boundaries. A set of census records ostensibly for a given county may therefore omit some places within the county yet include others from outside the...
Genealogy Of The Crane Family
w 'General Josiah Crane was in the service of King James I, of England, was related to William Crane, who married Margaret, the daughter of and co-kin of Sir Andrew Butler'. Joshua's son, Jasper, settled in Massachusetts in 1639. Continues the story of Jasper Crane. CRANE FAMILY w www.su rna meg u ide .co m fu lie r crane_fa m i ly. h t m William Crane and Abigail Puffer of Dorchester, England, had a son, Henry Crane 1719-1804 , father of Major Peter Crane 1752-1821 , gunsmith, of...
Conditions
The romantic glow of the Hartlepool's Wagga Moon only serves to shed a light on the harshness of living and working conditions in most metal manufacturing districts. Nineteenth-century civic pride ensured that many of these places had fine public buildings and facilities such as parks, but the bottom line was that these were Britain's 'dirty old towns' smoke and slag were the order of the day. The work was hard and dangerous as recent excavations in Sheffield showed. Trade Unions had to fight...
Lists And Libraries
If your ancestor was an officer, then like the British Army, there will be several army lists that you will be able to consult to discover details about their army service. Army Lists were first published in Britain in 1754 by the War Office and contain varying amounts of information depending on the date of the list. The later lists contain a wealth of information and include details about Chaplains, Veterinary and Medical officers too. Similar to the British Army, details of 'other ranks'...
One Stop Shop
More details on Scottish genealogy campus and online facilities cotland's one-stop-shop for genealogy research is a step closer according to an announcement from the website ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. As reported in Your Family Tree, a family history campus is being established in Edinburgh that will combine the facilities offered by the National Archives of Scotland and New Register House. It's due to open in 2006. ScotlandsPeople, the website run by Scotland Online, has now announced that is has...
Shine On Wagga Moon
It is pretty certain than anybody who has lived in a steel city or town will have a slag heap story. The heaps were widely visible, often had little railways running along the top and glowed in the dark. In West Hartlepool, the industrial area was nicknamed 'Wagga' and the slag heap glow was known as the 'Wagga Moon'. AN EARLY IRON FURNACE A foreboding and dangerous place for our forebears to work thanks mainly to the development of steam power, 40 per cent of European production took place...
Your Family Tree Az Of Surnames 1
THE BEST MAGAZINE J F R 'S E M E A L CMS Y -of each child. The resulting pattern was thought to resemble the footprints left by cranes on muddy riverbanks. Family trees therefore became known as 'cranes' feet' -pieds degru - hence the word 'pedigree'. The Cranes of Camborne, Cornwall, depicted a crane in their coat of arms, but most Cranes with coats of arms opted for less literal designs. Those depicted here are those granted in 1606 to a man named Crane who was Clerk of the Kitchen to no less...
Hackett
Hacket Halket Halkett Hachett Hackett Haggett Haggitt Acket Acketts Hacguet Hecquet The hake is a fish. It is referred to in a 14th century copy of the much more ancient foundation charter of Ramsay Abbey, Huntingdonshire, as a hacaed pronounced 'haket' , 'a kind offish'. There are instances of the surname which may derive as a nickname for someone who looked, or behaved, like a hake, such as John Hakede, in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in 1327, and Roger Hakat, in the Subsidy Rolls of...
Your Family Tree Az Of Surnames
The surname Crane arose as a sobriquet for someone who looked like or resembled a crane. This could have been someone with long, spindly legs, though equally one can imagine it being applied to someone with a long, beaklike nose. We can guess, therefore, at least some of the physical attributes of Osbert Crane, listed in the Pipe Rolls of Cambridgeshire in 1177, and Jordan Cran, listed in the Curia Regis rolls of Essex in 1219. William le Crane appears in the Essex Feet of Fines in 1235 and...
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Document Dissected
How to spot and interpret the details on a marriage certificate - our war-time leader's is an ideal example Marriages often took place at Christmas, because this was one of the very few times of the year - if not the only time -when poor families had enough time off work to come together. The parish was usually the home parish of the bride. AGES These can sometimes be inaccurate, or simply state 'full age', '21' or 'minor'. PLACE OF RESIDENCE The bride's is likely to have been her normal...