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Help, hints and tips on researching your family, general links, recommended books etc.

  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: How To GOOGLE Effectively

    HOW TO GOOGLE EFFECTIVELY When searching, for example, for information on one of your surnames, enter your search this way: "Wagstaff"...

    Posted By kaye
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    07-25-2008 01:11 PM Go to last post
  1. Where is Blockhouse Clap Gate???

    Hello everyone, I recently sent for a death certificate of my GrGrGrandfather Henry Dowler. He was married to Emma He died aged just 23. In...

    Posted By CHEZ
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    09-07-2010 04:12 PM Go to last post
  2. Old Pictures

    Hello all!!! I have been trying to find old pictures of Hood Street which was probably demolished anytime between 1905 and 1940, I would love to...

    Posted By CHEZ
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    03-23-2010 10:23 AM Go to last post
  3. Don't Forget GOOGLE BOOKS

    If you feel like doing this :smash: when you are searching Google don't forget Google Book Search. This can be reached via the main Google page but...

    Posted By kaye
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    01-24-2010 01:28 PM Go to last post
  4. Parish Records site

    Hi All, I've just come across this site - if you type Parish Records into the search engine it will bring up a whole variety of them, hopefully...

    Posted By maggiefishblue
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    11-15-2008 08:34 AM Go to last post
  5. Thumbs up Walk with a Victorian policeman

    Hi All :wave: This is a fascinating link - it has digitalised images of policemen's notes in the late 1800s ...

    Posted By maggiefishblue
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    10-24-2008 08:01 PM Go to last post
  6. scottish lineage

    hi all,maggie asked me to post this list of the way children were named in scotland so here go's. 1st son named after fathers father. 2nd son...

    Posted By patx
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    10-02-2008 12:47 PM Go to last post
  7. where could they have been???

    I am researching my Dowler ancestors I know my GGgrandfather Henry married Emma? they had a son born 1856 Henry Edward my Ggrandfather, they are...

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    09-25-2008 06:23 PM Go to last post
  8. FamilySearch

    I have just found on FamilySearch that they are uploading the Uk 1841 & 1861 census....... FamilySearch Record Search Maintenance Record...

    Posted By kaye
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    07-18-2008 09:11 AM Go to last post
  9. Latest news on the 1911 Census

    For the latest news on the 1911 census....... http://www.1911census.co.uk/ Kaye :)

    Posted By kaye
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    06-07-2008 11:43 PM Go to last post
  10. medical information on deceased relatives

    I recently discovered that one of my ancesters was blind as a small child and was taken into 'care' what's transpired this week is that this...

    Posted By chrisg
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    04-30-2008 11:37 AM Go to last post
  11. missing births

    can anyone help me decide the correct birth years for these ancestors of mine. 1861 census shows:for shropshire edward owen 38 (b) grinshill ann...

    Posted By confusedone
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    04-17-2008 07:35 PM Go to last post
  12. Who do you think you are

    afternoon all:) don't know if you are aware or not but I believe there is an event in London --- 2-4 May, -- Ancestry will have stands because...

    Posted By chrisg
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    04-01-2008 03:20 PM Go to last post
  13. A silly question???

    Hello to everyone - I am new to the board and was wondering if I could ask a question to which the answer is probably glaringly obvious to everyone...

    Posted By Tulip1971
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    03-27-2008 10:51 AM Go to last post
  14. Thumbs up Saunders/Hartwell

    Hello again, help wanted with the name Elisabeth Saunders b.abt.1861 in Berkshire married James Lane Hartwell 1885 Windsor,Berkshire, had a son...

    Posted By colsue1
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    03-16-2008 06:25 PM Go to last post
  15. Assistance please?

    i have discovered that I have a French line in my family tree we seem to have Edmund Victor Elias Boisseau born about 1824 in Paris and who is...

    Posted By chrisg
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    03-06-2008 02:49 AM Go to last post
  16. Thumbs up latin

    :Drecently ive come across a lot of latin words in parish records etc.as im not a latin expert ive found a section on freereg.org.uk for...

    Posted By patx
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    03-03-2008 07:29 AM Go to last post
  17. Smile sweet shop in Broseley

    Hi Im trying to find info on a sweet shop I remember visiting in the early sixties In Broseley Shropshire. It was a small shop next to a mens...

    Posted By lillynepp
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    02-12-2008 10:31 PM Go to last post
  18. History Fayre

    Hello, wondering if anyone would know when the next Family History Fayre will be held in Worcester? I'd like to get up to the next one. Thanks Chez

    Posted By CHEZ
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    02-02-2008 03:27 PM Go to last post
  19. Parish Registers

    Can anybody help please does anybody know a method of working out the abbreviations you see when perusing the records:redface: for example...

    Posted By chrisg
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    01-26-2008 07:33 AM Go to last post
  20. Tomb Stones

    Does anyone know what happens to the tomb stones that are removed from the graveyards? I expect they just smash them to pieces or something of the...

    Posted By CHEZ
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    01-18-2008 11:20 AM Go to last post

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