Post on 23-Dec-2015
Starting Family History
Terrington History GroupMay 14th 2013
The basics
• Gathering together what you know.
• Organising information• Research including civil
registration, census and parish records.
What you know already
• Relationships• Dates of birth,
marriages, death.• Places• Talk to older relatives• Look at photos and
documents.
Organising Information
• Keep a notebook• Keep a “shoebox”• Record sources• “To do” list• Use a database for your
family treehttp://legacyfamilytree.com/
Research
• Check information in primary sources
• Keep an open mind• Use the internet • Subscription sites • Use libraries, Ryedale
Family History Group and NYCC Records Office.
National Archive at Kew
Births Deaths and Marriages
• Civil Registration started in 1837.
• Index by name year and quarter and registration district
• Cross reference with census
• http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
• Birth.\..\Family History\Vincent\Eugenie Stella birth.jpg
• Death ..\..\Family History\Wilkinson\Elisha Wilkinson death 1840 (1).jpg
• Marriage ..\..\Family History\Smallwood\Marriage Cert Pip and Ron.jpg
Census
• From 1841 to 1911• Information varies• Can be misleading….• ..\..\Family History\Wilk
inson Photos\1871EnglandCensus_300026430.jpg
• Check against other sources.
Parish Registers• Not many are digitalised…
yet• International Genealogical
Index and the Mormons.https://familysearch.org/
• Search by placehttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyYorkshire_%28T-Z%29.htm#T
• Terrington Registers http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofterri29terr#page/n7/mode/2up
And lots, lots more!
• Trade directories• Wills• Newspapers• War records• Apprentices• Hearth Tax