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?

[2chappies]

Hi Darkie, I'm good. All the wedding rellies have finally gone home. :^O Back to 'normal' for now. Daughter has a scan this coming Thursday so we will hopefully know the gender of her baby. 🙂

DDU I was reading in a genealogy mag today that the Tassie certificates are ridiculously expensive to buy and if they aren't online then that makes it worse for searching. 😞

I'm loving the NSW BDM records online and making some good progress in parts of my tree.

[flashie*]

They are DDU ...but only up to 1900's.

http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/nameindexes

I presume you have already looked on Trove.

The Hobart Cemetery (Cornelian Bay) is online.

http://www.millingtons.com.au/records-search

I am in Tasmania if I can be of help.

[flashie*]

Chappies......about $38 for a cerificate here.

[matildas-place]

I hope everyone has had a lovely relaxing weekend and found some time to sneak in a little family research!

Ok, need some advice please as I am a little perplexed with this line of my family....

Did people sometimes tell fibs on their marriage certificates as to who their parents were or was the info some times recorded incorrectly?

I have a Henry Ferguson, I have his marriage certificate which lists one lot of parents and I am 99% sure I have found his death index yet it lists a completely different set of parents. Which one is more likely to be correct? The marriage register or the death index?

[flashie*]

The marriage one Matilda....because he would have given the information himself.....whereas the death one woudl have been the imformant who gave the information.

[double*dare*u]

They are DDU ...but only up to 1900's.

http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/nameindexes

I presume you have already looked on Trove.

The Hobart Cemetery (Cornelian Bay) is online.

http://www.millingtons.com.au/records-search

I am in Tasmania if I can be of help.

i've been on trove all day ... found it when they'd first started the project and it's cool ... i found a 4 year old boy who died (don't know how) but every year for years his parents put a notice in the paper on his anniversary .. I haven't yet linked him to my people but the surname is not that common so he's linked somewhere ...

[flashie*]

Trove would have to be my most favourite site............it is invaluable when doing your family tree.

DDU have you tried put the boys name into the search thingie on Trove.....there may have been a story reported on his death......I would check all papers not just teh state he died in.

It is easy to cut down on the hits by using the decade thingie (very techincal term) on the side.

[matildas-place]

Thanks very much for that Flashie, that makes sense!

I LOVE trove too! I have found out so much info about my family via there too.

I am currently building a little website for the St Lukes Church in Yea where I live and I am finding trove amazing for finding historical info about the church.

You guys probably already know this but when searching you can narrow the results right down by using + and also by putting the words in "" As an example St+Lukes+yea or "st lukes Yea" gets rid of a lot of the non relevant items in a search.

[darksideofthemoon]

:( Why aren't the Tasmanian BDM details online any more?

Damn you genealogists!!!! why did I open this thread?

:^O :^O :^O... now you have to suffer along with the rest of us DDU .. nebber mind it will keep your brain working

[darksideofthemoon]

Because my tree goes a long way back in Scotland the thing I find so hard to deal with it the fact that little girls of 13 were married off to older men because they wanted an heir (or another heir) and so often these little girls died in child birth.

The legal ages for children to be married was 12 for boys and 14 for girls, but over and over again the girls seemed to be younger... my mind swirls at the dreadful damage that must come from giving birth so young.

All of this because the 'great houses' were trading in children to for alliances and bonds with other 'great houses'... it linked land and property and ensured heirs...

It can leave me feelng very depressed sometimes. 😞

We think it doesn't happen any longer, but it does... given that Charles wanted Camilla, but she wasn't a suitable wife because she was married already and even later was not a good choice as a mother to the heirs to the throne, he married Diana, who was a perfect specimen for those lovely boys she had... good credentials and no past history... it all looks so innocent, but her later life, I think, said it all 😞

sigh.