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Unlucky Lisa, Captain America came up trumps for me, a little bit of info, something to go on hopefully.

Whats all this on Ancestry BDM, a name, date and place comes up and nothing else, or am i missing something.

It takes some sorting out bert, that's a fact. With the info you have then if you go to the census forms you can piece together the rest of the family and then expand your tree, not much of a hobby but it passes an hour. It depends on how interested you are really as it takes lots of cross referencing. We've got Welsh as well and the ones in Wales are very helpful, that's on the maternal side. The paternal side is Jocks and Paddies and the records are a bit sparse there. Got to dig all the stuff out again after the move and get it sorted, many happy hours to go. I'm a bit disappointed with the 1911 census info, after the long wait there is very little there, unlike the earlier ones. Maybe there is more to come yet.

The census forms are interesting and good enough, your right the 1911 is disappointing, The year of birth can be worked out on the census, near enough, but whats the point of the BDM section when it just gives you a name and place, it could be anyone, you would have thought it would include spouse or parents etc.

Perhaps i shouldn't expect to click on a name and they come walking through the door, I wanted to tell that bloke he was a silly fooker for losing all his money on a horse.

On my maternal side I've got back as far as 1198 (via Birmingham, Oxford and London) mainly using free sites like familysearch. To be honest, I'm not really interested - it's just a list of names which mean nothing to me. However, nearly all the family on my Dad's side (back to 1750) are from the Wirral and were among the tens of thousands who moved from villages like Neston, West Kirby and Greasby in the 19th century to find work during the huge growth of Birkenhead. This means that many of the addresses shown on the census forms are still there which makes it much more interesting. Family history can be very time-consuming but also fascinating.

the only way to get more info is to send away to registrars office and order bmd certificates used to be £7 each
marriage certs give only address where bride and groom live and occupation and fathers names
births certs provide mothers maiden name fathers name and occupation and address where born
i spent about £70 altogether

The only problems i have with sending away for certificates are, they might be the wrong ones, on the ancestry site, i can't convince myself conclusively that what i am needing to send away for are in fact the correct family members,I'm happy enough with the information on the census forms, but with the limited info in the BDM section, it could cost a lot of money on what won't turn out to be family members.

i take it you must have fairly common names,yes big problem if lots of same name same district same year
if you do send away do it direct with registry office its cheaper and also you can ask them to check maybe suspected maiden name and if its wrong one there is no charge
hope this helps
julie

Can onlly get to 1760 at the moment, the Jocks won't release their census gen for some reason, or at least not to Ancestry. Not sure if it is Glasgow or Ireland at that stage. I'll get there though. It is throwing some good insights though.

1760 i thought the census only started in 1841

This one for Jocks

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

I suppose the parish records go back further, not got back that far yet, anyone on the 1841 census over 80ish would be back to 1760.

Have a try here Bert (it's free!!)https://www.familysearch.org/

Just come off it funny enough, thanks, the bricks are getting harder, will be back on it though, did find some info, but on the side of the family thats not the problem.

its very interesting i found a lot of skeletons in the cupboards but also became facinated with ww1 research after finding a few ancestors that were killed one in france and another in jerusalem