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Family History

Pandoren

One of my interests is researching my family tree. I've done fairly well with it (I'm back past UK registration on all sides bar illegitimates where the parent isn't known). I have a few interesting or frustrating ancestors here and there.

One sort of sad thing is that I only seem to like my relatives when they are long dead...

Anyone else like doing their family trees?

 

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  • On copying other peoples information  -  I think the best part of researching family history is the actual searching and discovering things. If you are just copying a list of names and dates, you can say you have the family tree, but you won't know much about the people.

    Trawling around in the records is fascinating and all sorts of incidents and people can be unearthed  -  extra children you didn't know about, illegitimate births etc. Showing off a load of dates and names may look impressive but without that background work of having read the censuses and looking at the birth, marriage and death certificates you won't have any background knowledge. 

    Look what you have found out about your Mark.  You have done really well to have managed to trace all the way to his death, especially as he was at sea.  Following people through the early census records is often difficult  - what with mis-spellings and people moving around. Have you noticed that sometimes you get stuck on someone and seem to reach a dead-end, then they turn up a long while later when you are looking for a completely different member of the family?

    Where did you find the deaths at sea records? 

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  • On copying other peoples information  -  I think the best part of researching family history is the actual searching and discovering things. If you are just copying a list of names and dates, you can say you have the family tree, but you won't know much about the people.

    Trawling around in the records is fascinating and all sorts of incidents and people can be unearthed  -  extra children you didn't know about, illegitimate births etc. Showing off a load of dates and names may look impressive but without that background work of having read the censuses and looking at the birth, marriage and death certificates you won't have any background knowledge. 

    Look what you have found out about your Mark.  You have done really well to have managed to trace all the way to his death, especially as he was at sea.  Following people through the early census records is often difficult  - what with mis-spellings and people moving around. Have you noticed that sometimes you get stuck on someone and seem to reach a dead-end, then they turn up a long while later when you are looking for a completely different member of the family?

    Where did you find the deaths at sea records? 

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