2. Rodney may be moving
• Family reasons
• Head back closer to kids and grandkids
• House is now on the market
• Finish as President of the Rotary Club of
Rushden at the end of June
• Implications for this Group........
• Any volunteers as Group Leader?
3. Write down
What you know
Talk to
Relatives
Look at
Family
Records
Plan your
Research
Discover
What sources
available
Keep effective
records
Births
Marriages
Deaths
Censuses
Parish
Records
Delve into
Ancestors
lives
Other
sources
Wills
START
5. CENSUSES
CIVIL BMD
RECORDS
About 1840
PARISH
RECORDS
GENES REUNITED
GENUKI , FHS, GOONS, ETC
GOOGLE, ROOTSWEB and OTHER LISTS
Ancestry.co.uk
LDS 1881
Findmypast.com
FreeBMD
Ancestry
Findmypast.com
UKBMD
Local BMD
sites
LDS Microfiche
LDS Family Search
6.
7. Welcome
• Welcome
• Blog update, have a look at:
• http://rodneysgenealogyblog.blogspot.co.uk/
• Stuff from me
• Father Joe Walsh
• Stuff from you!
8. Obtained via the U3A Family
History Group Leaders Forum
7 pages of it, I will include in the meeting notes
9. London Gardens
• London Gardens Online has an enormous
amount of information about parks, gardens,
churchyards and cemeteries in the Greater
London area - there are over 2500 locations.
10. Have you considered.....
• Check your older research - does it need updating or revising
in the light of newly-published or newly-discovered data?
• When I started to research my family tree in 2002 there was
little information available online, and many people have
been researching even longer than I have. I suspect,
therefore, that like me there are parts of your tree where you
could add lots of extra information now that there are so
many online resources.
11. Have you considered.....
• Focus on a different line
• We all tend to focus on particular ancestral lines, often our
paternal line or our mother's paternal line. This is
understandable - after all, they're the surnames that we're
most familiar with - yet in terms of who we are, our other
ancestors are just as important. Why not research at least
one of the 'forgotten' lines - you may be surprised at what
you discover.
12. Have you considered.....
• Learn a new technique
• When we first start our research we're forced to learn new
ways of doing things, because we don't have any old ways of
doing them. But over time we tend to stick to what we know,
often shying away from learning new ways of doing things -
especially if it means accepting that the old ways aren't quite
good enough. For you it might mean going back over your
research and noting the source of the information, even if it is
a secondary source (such as someone else's tree). There's
nothing worse than being unable to answer the question
"Where did that information come from?”
19. Finally.........
• Any other Brick Walls for the Group to look
at?
• Anything that you would like us to look at in
future meetings?
• Anything else you would like to say?