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