Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[green.fields]

I think researching South Australia is absolutely hopeless, sort of like W.A. lol. The only joy I ever have is with this site, it does give me bits and pieces. Good luck with the Smith name.

http://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html

[clair.de.lune]

A lady in Perth I linked with on ancestry - a distant relative, well I just looked at her tree, she has convicts at least one I'm soooo jealous

[flashie*]

Ancestry has no electoral stuff for SA either.

[clair.de.lune]

No wonder I can't find anything in S.A.

In future I will make sure I have the correct details when ordering BDM certificates, no result found and I didn't get my money back

[clair.de.lune]

So I've got this photo of my grt grand aunt and some of her children and I'm convinced the toddler sitting on her knee is a girl yet I have found no daughters for her in my tree and the lady in Perth has found no daughters either but on Sunday I went to the genealogy center again and I found this school record for a Winifred, two school records actually listing my Aunt as the parent. So I guess the little girl in the photo is Winifred/Winnifred?

Even the school teachers didn't spell correctly! I have found that a lot with those school records, even the school teachers didn't spell the names correctly

[flashie*]

Clair...................maybe the birth was just not registered...............or poor Winifred did not make it to adulthood.

I had a huge problem finding the birth for my great great grandmother Isabella................he death certificate said she was born in the same area she died in.

I paid for a birth certificate search............plus for another $15 they would increase the search for 15 years either side of when I thought she was born.

Lucky for me the lack of birth certificate annoyed the guy who worked down in the archive section and he looked up her marriage.............and found her fathers name.

He then looked for any baby girls born that were registered but unnamed at the time.....(maybe that is what happened to your Winifred)..............and still no luck...............not even under any mis-spellings of her surname.

So we came to the conclusion that her birth had just not been registered.

But by finding her fathers name I FINALLY found the family................and it seems none of their children were registered................either here or back in Scotland.

No death notices.............marriage notices.............birth notices............on Trove..............and not even any headstones in the cemetery when they died.......(maybe crosses that have not lasted over the years)

[clair.de.lune]

flashie I have contacted the cemetery in the area I know they moved to to see if there is a Winifred buried there. I know my Aunt is buried in that area. I will also contact the cemetery secretary where Winifred went to school and see if there is a Winifred in that cemetery.

The death certificate for my 2nd grt grandmother which came back with no results found I notice the last three children in that family I can find no birth records for. They may have been born in a Victorian country area like the previous child so I'd say the last three children were not registered? I will order her death certificate and see if it tells me where she was born

[clair.de.lune]

The other thing is, I found on Trove this Aunt had put lovely in memoriam messages for her mother and her son who was killed in WW1 yet nothing for Winifred? She appeared to be a sentimental woman who wrote little in memoriam poems for the newspapers (which I know they often did back then) but nothing for Winifred?

I've just had a thought though, they moved to a new area maybe in a local paper there that is not on Trove yet?

[flashie*]

Have you checked that Winifred was not a middle name of one of the children you already know of..........does her age match any of them?

[clair.de.lune]

Just checking now. Not on the mothers side of the family but perhaps the fathers there could be? I've not researched the fathers side. There's two other people on ancestry researching Winifred's "parents" but neither have Winifred added as a child. But they wouldn't have access to or even know about the genealogy museum I frequently visit.

I will wait and see what the lady in Perth thinks. I haven't heard back from either cemetery yet either.