Family Historian User Group

Anonymous, You don't say where you live. If you are able to visit London, the Society of Genealogists library does have some transcripts of registers for Trelleck: [Book] TRELLECK (St. Nicholas) : C 1696, 1725-1808 (BTs), M 1696, 1725-1800 (BTs), B 1696-97, 1725-1800 (BTs): Monmouthshire bishop's tr...

Nick,

Thank you for your suggestion.

I'll continue to put a note in the source record for the person listed as a widow, then put a date of death with a 10-year range for the spouse until I find their actual death/burial details.

Jeremy

Is there a way to record the Marital status from Census entries via Gedcom Census? I don't usually record this for single/married people, but I do find that it is useful to record this information where the person concerned is a widow/widower, as it is often found from using this information that th...

I have started to use separate folders for each of my grandparents, and put the certificates into the appropriate folder.
That way, it is easier to browse all of the documents for one side of the family, and makes it easy to show them if a relative comes to visit.

Jeremy

Jane,

Have you tried using Ancestry in the new Firefox 2.0 - I have recently upgraded my Firefox browser, and some sites that didn't work in the old one are fine in 2.0

Personally I now use Firefox for everything unless a specific site doesn't load properly.

Jeremy

Mike, Bad news, I'm afraid. Under current legistlation, you can only view the details of a BMD certificate in England & Wales when you purchase a certified copy from the GRO or local register office. (£7) The only information you will find available online are the indexes to enable you to purchase t...

Perhaps it is the date he died or when he was given naturalized citizenship ??
The writing seems to refer to some event in Washington.

I have found several occasions where the baptism entry also records the date of birth. If you are really lucky, the entry will be written in Dade style - this system was common in Yorkshire for a time. This also lists the mother's maiden name and also the names and parishes of the fathers of ther pa...

David, Most of the government records would be held at The National Archives at Kew. How much personal info is included in them would vary. I don't know about pension records at Kew. The Post Office pension records in the Postal Archives contained full service records and personal details, but only ...

I use the 1837online - it is quite good. you have to remember that the BMD records are not searchable before 1983 - you can only open the images of the indexes of that surname for each quarter, so if you are doing a long search, you may need to open a lot of images. For a long search, I still prefer...

Is there a correction on the certificate?

I have come across instances where something has been corrected, with a raised number aginst it. In these cases, on the margin of the certificate there will be a signature against that number to show it was an authorised alteration by the registrar.

Jeremy

I found several occasions where ither the surname or place of birth was spelt incorrectly by either the ennumerator, or the Ancestry transcription. I found several people by just putting in the first name, place of birth (or county) and age to within 2 years - often a name comes up with a surname wh...

Jane,

Thank you for the info. I will have a go with it this weekend.

Jeremy

I have just visited several graveyards and now have digital photos of number of gravestones of people on my tree. In many cases, several people are listed on the same gravestone, so I need to link the gravestone details to all of the relevant individuals. What would be the best way of entering this ...

I tried creating a custom report which is intended to list everyone related to a particular person, showing place of burial and death. I tried putting filters on the burial and death date columns to exclude anyone without any death/burial info. As I want people who have either death or burial (or bo...

I have come across an issue relating to the Narrative report. There are a couple of instances where a female descendant marries more than once.  The report correctly gives the dates of the marriages and spouse names but does not mention when the 1st husband died, even though the information is held ...

I used Gedwise on a Palm tungsten E which is very good. Gedwise does not allow you to amend the data, but I prefer to update it in FH on the PC once back at home. It is very easy to transfer the Gedcom file from the PC into the Palm.

Jeremy

Simon,

Thank you for this - I will try it out over the weekend.

Jeremy

Jane, Thank you for that - I have now uploaded the query. It seems to run OK, but misses some second marriages. the selection at the start prompts for the date range. It also asks for entry of ther person from which the people in the output are decended from. http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/Ma...

Jane, Thanks for that. I tried again last night and got it to work - you were correct - I needed to use an excude unless statement. I have now got the query to list chronologically all marriages for descendents for a specific person, which you select when the query runs. However, it seems to omit se...

I am trying to write a query that will give me a chronological list of marriages so that I can ake the list to the records office & check the newspaper reports of the time I have created a Family type query. I selected family as spouse - mar.plac and mar.date (both sorted), and also husband and wife...

at the FRC (and elsewhere) you can only view the GRO indexes, not the entries themselves without purchasing a certificate. if you find likely entries, it will tell you whiat the local registration district is. In the local regster offices, the local marriage indexes are arranged by each church - you...

There is a separate regster for deaths of members of the forces during both world wars. They are held in the overseas section of the family records centre (beyond the normal deaths section), and applications for certificates should be made on a special form (I think they are blue from memory) there ...

The Society of Genealogists hold similar submissions of family pedigrees in their library for others to view.

I believe that they film these onto microfiche for searching within the library.

If you contact the SOG Librarian, she will be able to advise you.

Jeremy

have you tried their marriage certificate to see what name is used there (if they married) ? one person on my tree was baptised as Emily, but the GRO index has the birth registered as Amelia. On childhood censuses she is listed as Amelia, so assumed the vicar misheard at the baptism. Anyway, I got h...