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?

[clair.de.lune]

Yeah I don't have a good filing system, I got a filing folder but it's all just stuffed in there! I did manage to put all the certificates in one compartment but that's as far as I got!

I've been doing lots of ancestry lately but still finding lots so it's good. On one headstone for a little boy it had KILLED, I always wondered why and the other night I found it on Trove, killed by a horse. Not sure if I posted that already in this thread.

[punch*drunk]

Most of my certificates and digital, so they're all just on my computer in random places. Some havent even been named properly, so I dont know what they are until I open the file. I have BDM certificates, cemetery plots, wills and other docs from the UK archives and newspaper articles from Trove all just floating around the place. I've even been known to pay for the same certificate twice because I forgot I already got one 6 months ago, lol.

[clair.de.lune]

lol punch

I have the dilemma of having faint print certificates printed out from the elderly lady in Perth which are scarcely legible and wondering whether I should pay for a clear copy

[clair.de.lune]

St. Kilda cemetery

[clair.de.lune]

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[clair.de.lune]

flashie have a listen to this, I was just in the final stages of getting the wording sorted out with the stonemason for the mother, father and one son who are in one grave, when I started to think about and look into one little child who was about 10 when she died. I thought where was she buried? I'd never really looked into her before - you know because there's so many names and they all had piles of kids, thirteen in this family alone.

I phoned the lady in Perth and then I phoned the cemetery secretary, turns out there are four more children buried in that cemetery "somewhere"

There goes the wording on my headstone

So now I have to scrap it, start again, more work for the stonemason and possibly name all children on the headstone even though there are thirteen.

I feel so stupid for not realising earlier

[flashie*]

Clair...............if that works out too difficult maybe you could get a plaque added later.

One my grandfathers headstone my grandmother has her plaque.........and on the bottom of the grave is a plaque for an Aunt whose ashes are in there too.

Is the cemetery online...................you could check there.............or was she politely trying to tell you they were buried as "paupers"..........which means you will probably never know more than an approximate area........as records for paupers were poorly kept...........and often many were buried together.

[clair.de.lune]

I thought about a plaque added later, I've just done a mock up plaque with all the childrens names and found I have one child extra on my tree an Ellen & a Helen - I think they are actually just one person

It's a country cemetery so there's  nothing on line though there's two history places I can go check and the cemetery secretery. She didn't mention paupers graves, at least two are babies, she said they didn't start keeping proper records until a certain year, about 1870

I don't know frustrating. There's one little baby who was never on either parents death certificate but we have a baptism record that has written on the side "one of a twin?" so the lady in Perth and I just assume there was another little baby.

[flashie*]

You would think someone must have a burial plan for the cemetery.

Is is owned by the church............or Council..............if it is the Council they maybe able to help.

My lot are buried in mainly two cemeteries...........and I know my great grandfathers first wife, Mary, died aged 25....and she is buried there..............Trove family notices say so too.

Their three children that died young and all buried there...................yet I can not find Mary....and she is not on the burial plans.

Another weird thing............my great great grandfather married three times.............but he is buried with his second wife..........his third wife survived him.....but she is buried in a totally different cemetery.