Family Historian User Group

Just for info: Anyone with a tree on GenesReunited might like to check the permissions they have allowed/are allowed to see. There have been major problems in recent days!

Just a friendly warning in case there are people who do not wish everyone to see their tree!

Anne

It might be worth contacting the County Archive for the area the pub was in. I have licencing records for pubs in my family during the 1870s to 1890s. This was in West Yorkshire but not all the records survive. If they do it seemd they had to re-apply each year so there is a run of records.

Anne

Don't forget that photos which turn up (unlabelled) in family collections could just be friends of your parents/relations! I speak as one who has recently sent out a load of photos of my daughter's wedding to friends. Also I have just had to go through a huge drawer full of old photos as we cleared ...

Mmmmm! And have you checked it all out, Martin, to your complete satisfaction [wink]

I have found some people's research is ...erm ... questionable to say the least [tongue]

Anne

If there is a birth certificate it means the baby was born alive. It may only have lived for a few minutes or seconds but if it was alive it had to have a birth and death registration.If it was stillborn the birth was not registered as such. There is a separate stillbirth register (don't know the da...

Since most of my ancestors come from Yorkshire I had already invested in the census CDs before the complete transcription on Ancestry. However I now have an annual sub to Ancestry and have found many more ancestors who moved away! When I got the CDs there was no index but I spent many a happy hour (...

Joldies - if you get a copy of the will, the probate sheet that comes with it will say the date of the death. That could solve the problem of whether she was a widow or not!
Anne

My 4xgreat grandfather died in 1785 and his will was probated in 1804. No idea why! His wife did not die until 1825. The archivist did not seem that surprised when we found it so it must happen sometimes.

Anne