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I know finding death certificates isnt particularly easy but I wonder is it possible to search anywhere for a persons death if you know their date of birth? The persons death I am looking for is that of a Charles Bartum born in 1884. I know he married in 1908 and was widowed the same year. But after...

Thanks for that. You have given me a few avenues to explore

On my wife's aunts birth cirtificate it was shown that she was born in a pub and that her father not ureasonably was a licensed victualler. Are there any records that I might be able to access to show when he became a licensed victualler and whether he owned the premises, rented them or indeed had a...

0/5 is pretty harsh BUT i do have to say that i recently started a new tree and I had to look up how to get started.

Ok its dead easy once you have entered your first few people but entering that first one can stump some.

Getting started on your research and what sites to use, here's my two pennyworth. THE starting point must be to gather as much information from as many living relatives as you can. It really is amazing how much knowledge elderly aunts and uncles and even cousins have. Dont treat any of it as fact ju...

Never used Custom queries so I guess a bit of reading of the manual is needed What I've been doing is constructing a Tree of all the descendants of Sophia electress of Hanover and constructing all the inter marriages. Some of the diagrams being produced look pretty complicated. what would have been ...

Never used Custom queries so I guess a bit of reading of the manual is needed What I've been doing is constructing a Tree of all the descendants of Sophia electress of Hanover and constructing all the inter marriages. Some of the diagrams being produced look pretty complicated. what would have been ...

Is it possible to produce diagrams that show simply how two people in a family are related. What Im after is a simple diagram that will route each of the individuals back to the common ancestor. Now I know I could do that by doing a descendant chart from the common ancestor and then 'pruning' all th...

Can anyone give me an explanation as to the difference between these two types of charts. I'm asuming that everyone will show up everyone on your database no matter how far they are removed, by example marriage, to the root of your diagram but all relations shows up just those that the root is relat...

Yep thats what I thought as well. Wikipedia discribes it as is an excess accumulation of water in the intra- and/or extracellular spaces of the brain. Edema can occur as the result of many things, including head injury, allergic reaction, stroke, acute liver disease, cardiac arrest or from the lack ...

Thanks Jane, that worked a treat

I've started using family history to record the descendants of Queen Victoria (yes I know its probably been done hundreds of times before) There are 28 marriages between her descendants and these are shown on Family Historian diagrams by a long loop. Now the loop appears on diagrams on screen but be...

If Ive mispelt a surname the first time Ive entered it then all the descendants of that person end up with the same mispelt surname. Is there a quick and easy way of changing all the people with the same mispelyt surname by some sort of Find and replace?

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Our tree starts with our two children and we have 31 of their 32 GGG grandparents. The 32nd is proving very difficult to find (Irish wife not mentioned on Daughters marriage certificate) My wifes family can be traced back to the mid sixteenth century on several lines. getting back further is really ...

Well I'm convinced that the two catherines are indeed the same person as they both have the same Father listed (Patrick Welsh deceased). I knew the names Christian names of my Fathers half brothers and sisters and knew that they were initialy Williams' although they later took the name of my Grandfa...

I wonder if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction in solving a mystery surounding my paternal grandmother Catherine Welsh and her first husband William Howell Williams. I know that catherine married William on May 27th 1895 in Llangynedd, Bridgend. I have a copy of their marriage c...

To get started I used a folder with a 31 day set of dividers. This proved useful as it meant I had a seperate tab for each person up to all of my great great grandparents and of course the day numbers corespond wih the ahnentafel numbering scheme. I then used another folder and another set for Great...

Another good site Ive found for finding Living people is
http://www.tracesmart.co.uk/?page=peoplesearch.

It cost a minimum of 14.95 but for that It will tell you details of every David Lewis living in Milton Keynes (9)or Every David Lewis In Bucks (48)

Surely this has got to depend on how many ancestors you have? Ive gone back 15 generations on a number of lines in our family history. There is no way that all that information can go on one sheet and be legible. Every generation you go back you are doubling the number of ancestors so obce you get b...

On my great grandmothers death certificate it gives the cause of death as 'Misadventure run over by a train of trams whilst picking up coal (Instantaneous)' Under Informant it states 'certificate received fro J.B.Walford Coroner for Monmouthshire, Inquest held 23 September 1898. Are there likely to ...

I too got the email, i guess it comes down to how much you still have to find out. My email told me that I had already spent £65 with them. so if I was just starting out £50 for a year might seem a bit of a bargain. Then again having got back beyond the 1851 census in direct lines there are several ...

Like most people, I guess, I started building my family tree upwards from myself then my parents and then grandparents etc. I had varying amounts of sucess with diferent branches but managed to get back to the Mid 16th century on two or three of them. I then started filling in brothers and sisters a...

Just out of curiosity are you breaking any laws if you publish details of someone who is living. Surely things like Date of birth of most people can easily be found so are virtualy in the public domain arent they. Ok I can accept that you may not wish to publish everything that you might enter into ...

Quote>>I think the problem is that the amount of 'stripes' per generation is fixed, regardless of how many of these 'stripes' are empty. I would have thought they could quite easily devise a means of only showing stripes which were populated. /Quote Have you checked out the features in the next real...

Most of you will be familiar with the BBC2 Series 'Who do you think you are' which traces the ancestry of a number of celebraties. When the first series was shown, imediately following each broadcast viewers were invited to switch to BBC4 to view the Family Ties Series which was filmed in a similar ...