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Title: Family Tree
Post by: Grumpy on February 28, 2008, 00:44:42: Just started to do my family tree

Any tips or advice will be greatly appriciated
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Panda on February 28, 2008, 01:03:33: Miracle grow helps no end

sorry couldn't help my self ive got my coat.
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Yoshi on February 28, 2008, 02:05:07: Talk to the elderly in your family, they will know a hell of alot more than you will ever know!

Also www.geneology.com and some free software which i cant remember the details of which keeps record of your tree on the pc.

Also do a google search for freeBMD and you can search stuff through there.

ATB

Dan
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Defender on February 28, 2008, 18:28:41: Try: http://www.familysearch.org/ & Ancestry.com (http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/offers/uk/learn/trial.aspx?o_xid=34618&o_lid=34618&offerid=0%3a7935%3a0) From these two websites I managed to trace my family tree directly back to my great, great, great grandfather in 1802.
I've since found another possible link back as far as the early 1600's in Northumberland. Just need to link the 1600's to the 1800's :D
I have a feeling that I'm now going to have to do some leg work visiting various parish records in places, as not all the info can be found on the web.
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Baron-Red on February 28, 2008, 21:14:54: Ancestry.com My wife has traced her family back to 1308 hence the name Baron-Red

'Baron' as in noble, 'Red' as in the colour of my old disco

(de la Harpe family)
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: lee celtic on February 28, 2008, 22:38:23: I was informed by an American student by email that my family is branch 413 of the Smallwood family tree :shock: :shock:

This Girl has been tracing the Smallwood family line for 12 years :shock: :shock:

She supplied us with a starting point and asked us to fill in all the new arivals from my grandad down. Can't wait to see it finished ,apparently there are hundreds of Smallwoods in the southern states of America.
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Bunnie on February 28, 2008, 22:43:15: there is a website to which you can load ur tree on to so those looking can view what you have type thing/you can search and view others. one of my customers is currently doing his but i cant remember the web address. i shall try and get him to write it down for me.
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: dave_2A_2.25Turbo on February 29, 2008, 02:45:44: Quote from: Bunnie on February 28, 2008, 22:43:15
there is a website to which you can load ur tree on to so those looking can view what you have type thing/you can search and view others. one of my customers is currently doing his but i cant remember the web address. i shall try and get him to write it down for me.

Probably Genesreunited - free to use, unless you want to contact anybody, search records etc etc
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Yoshi on February 29, 2008, 02:49:31: My ex-sister in law does it (bettyblue22's sister).

Her and her husband have done massive ammounts of tracing of their family and spend most weekends away visiting newly found relatives and stuff.
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: datalas on February 29, 2008, 11:45:42: Quote from: Grumpy on February 28, 2008, 00:44:42
Just started to do my family tree

Any tips or advice will be greatly appriciated

Depends where your family is from, if they're anything like the families where I grew up I'd buy a spirograph ... :-o
Title: Re: Family Tree
Post by: Rich_P on February 29, 2008, 11:52:34: We've been able to trace back to the seventeenth Century so far with the family line, and fortunately I can proudly say that I'm a proper Englishman. :P Worryingly though, I'm the only one now who can carry the family name forwards. :shock: