U3A Genealogy

May 2013

Rodney may be moving

• Family reasons• Head back closer to kids and grandkids• House is now on the market• Finish as President of the Rotary Club of

Rushden at the end of June• Implications for this Group........• Any volunteers as Group Leader?

Write downWhat you know

Talk toRelatives

Look atFamily

Records

Plan yourResearch

DiscoverWhat sources

available

Keep effectiverecords

BirthsMarriages

DeathsCensuses

ParishRecords

Delve intoAncestors

lives

Othersources

Wills

START

YourInformation

Find itYourself

Known Relatives Information

Ask them

New relatives Information

Genes Reunited

BMDInformation

CensusInformation

ParishRegisters

Information

Other SourcesOf

Information

CENSUSES

CIVIL BMDRECORDS

About 1840

PARISHRECORDS

GENES REUNITED

GENUKI , FHS, GOONS, ETC

GOOGLE, ROOTSWEB and OTHER LISTS

Ancestry.co.ukLDS 1881

Findmypast.com

FreeBMDAncestry

Findmypast.comUKBMD

Local BMDsites

LDS Microfiche

LDS Family Search

Welcome• Welcome• Blog update, have a look at:• http://rodneysgenealogyblog.blogspot.co.uk/• Stuff from me • Father Joe Walsh• Stuff from you!

Obtained via the U3A Family History Group Leaders Forum

7 pages of it, I will include in the meeting notes

London Gardens

• London Gardens Online has an enormous amount of information about parks, gardens, churchyards and cemeteries in the Greater London area - there are over 2500 locations.

Have you considered.....

• Check your older research - does it need updating or revising in the light of newly-published or newly-discovered data?

• When I started to research my family tree in 2002 there was little information available online, and many people have been researching even longer than I have. I suspect, therefore, that like me there are parts of your tree where you could add lots of extra information now that there are so

many online resources.

Have you considered.....

• Focus on a different line

• We all tend to focus on particular ancestral lines, often our paternal line or our mother's paternal line. This is understandable - after all, they're the surnames that we're most familiar with - yet in terms of who we are, our other ancestors are just as important. Why not research at least one of the 'forgotten' lines - you may be surprised at what you discover.

Have you considered.....• Learn a new technique • When we first start our research we're forced to learn new

ways of doing things, because we don't have any old ways of doing them. But over time we tend to stick to what we know, often shying away from learning new ways of doing things - especially if it means accepting that the old ways aren't quite good enough. For you it might mean going back over your research and noting the source of the information, even if it is a secondary source (such as someone else's tree). There's nothing worse than being unable to answer the question

"Where did that information come from?”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghXERt9QSIA

• http://www.kilfiancrosskin.com/kilfian-baptisms.php

I found this......

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.britisles.ireland.may.general/224.822.1/mb.ashx

Finally.........

• Any other Brick Walls for the Group to look at?

• Anything that you would like us to look at in future meetings?

• Anything else you would like to say?