Family Trees

[amethyst]

Anyone been interested in finding more about your relatives.Started to look on genes reunited for clues of birth marriages and death,Its a lot easier if a surname was not so common as Jones,Williams etc

[Richard1978]

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My Dad has done a lot on our family history, not so easy if your surname is Davies & all but the last generation or so lived in South Wales!

[battyrat]

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We have Davies in our family on my nans side. They also came from south Wales, Pembrokshire.

I done quite a bit of family research over the years but found it to be getting rather expensive especially as a full certificate is nearly £10 a throw now. Parish registers are probably the best way to go if your family came from a specific area. If your family moved around a lot like mine then parish registers can be misleading as they record christenings and not always where the birth of the child took place or a burial but not where the person died. Many of my ancestors that I had been researching lived on the road all their lives moving from town to town every few weeks or months.

Ancestry is the best place to start with a great set of records but it can get expensive for a decent subscription. Be careful of online trees. Check and recheck them time and time again. So many of them will be wrong somewhere.

[amethyst]

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Welsh connections for both of you eh.The genes reunited site is good if you know the surname my mums mum & dad names were easy enough to find.My dads dad name was easy,but my nan on dads side was a Rees so it will be difficult.I will be phoning up the central library for information,on what to do next.I would like a family tree chart on both sides depending on the price they charge.I would not be interested in certificates as it costs so much.

[Richard1978]

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My Dad has found a few sites which can be very good for looking up information at a reasonable price.

[amethyst]

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I have the names of the 4 grandparents,the dates when they were born married and passed on.The next stage to find their siblings names and families

[xmark1234]

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Something ive never thought of doing really maybe one day i will

[amethyst]

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Something ive never thought of doing really maybe one day i will

No time like the present

[xmark1234]

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yea true but its one them things do I or don't I lol

[amethyst]

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yea true but its one them things do I or don't I lol

I am phoning up the library tomorrow for some advice,so will let you know what they say

[xmark1234]

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Ok mate cheers

I am phoning up the library tomorrow for some advice,so will let you know what they say

[amethyst]

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Rang up library they said best to come down and we will advise you what to do next

[xmark1234]

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cheers when I get 5 I might think about that one

Rang up library they said best to come down and we will advise you what to do next

[amethyst]

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Been down central library.where I was given a site to look at similar to genes reunited which I had been looking at.Its called findmypast.co.uk

Looking up my mums dad side the surname was easy to find,He had 1 brother that got married so I started searching from then if they had sons etc.Now I am searching for males only as females would be more difficult to track down with married names.
I am looking for males that are my age group to see if they match the family and I did come up trumps its a choice of 3,the next hurdle is finding out their addresses or phone numbers to see if they are related or not.

[amethyst]

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I am still working on this family tree buisness,have left it for a while,but trying to get back into it.Have found males with the same surname and the district I think they maybe from.It is finding the right one that could be a distant relative.If I find my mums Uncle family then what relation would they be to me is it great cousins or distant cousins?