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?
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?
That's odd Rosie, different parental names... between marriage and death...
Could she have been married in, say, the UK and then come out here later and no one really sure of her parent's names... something like that?
Or did they divorce and her mother remarried and now only she and the new husband are noted?
I've tried 'scotlandspeople' to no avail yet ๐ but won't give up.
Could she have been married in, say, the UK and then come out here later and no one really sure of her parent's names... something like that?
Or did they divorce and her mother remarried and now only she and the new husband are noted?
I've tried 'scotlandspeople' to no avail yet ๐ but won't give up.
I have just discovered the searchable databases at lots of Victorian cemeteries. I have found relatives at St Kilda, Springvale, Kew, Lilydale and Ballarat.
I have taken a screen shot of the grave locations and uploaded onto the death record of each person. One day i am going to go and take photos of all the headstones ๐
I have taken a screen shot of the grave locations and uploaded onto the death record of each person. One day i am going to go and take photos of all the headstones ๐
Same old, same old here. Do have a problem with Ancestry that they are working on to try and fix...
IF you find that some ggggrandparents have more than one child and that those children have gone off and married and their families take them in different directions.
When you come to realise that the two different lines finally join up to the same parents, don't try and use the same grandparents 'page' and join it up to the two families.
It doesn't work. What happens is that because it can happen that the grandparents are the 12th gggreat grandparents to one line, they can be the 14th gggreat grandpaents on the other line (due no doubt to how quickly the families had children)
If you do try and join them up you will find the grandparents will quickly become the '2nd uncle of the 3rd cousin of the 10th grandmother' or somesuch.
It is necessary, at the present, to rebuild the grandparent's pages again for each line.
Gawd! That sounds complicated, I've had practice trying to explain this to ancestry and they did eventually understand me.
I am told they are working on it ๐
Gil you could run into this problem the way you are going ๐
IF you find that some ggggrandparents have more than one child and that those children have gone off and married and their families take them in different directions.
When you come to realise that the two different lines finally join up to the same parents, don't try and use the same grandparents 'page' and join it up to the two families.
It doesn't work. What happens is that because it can happen that the grandparents are the 12th gggreat grandparents to one line, they can be the 14th gggreat grandpaents on the other line (due no doubt to how quickly the families had children)
If you do try and join them up you will find the grandparents will quickly become the '2nd uncle of the 3rd cousin of the 10th grandmother' or somesuch.
It is necessary, at the present, to rebuild the grandparent's pages again for each line.
Gawd! That sounds complicated, I've had practice trying to explain this to ancestry and they did eventually understand me.
I am told they are working on it ๐
Gil you could run into this problem the way you are going ๐
Hmmm, I finally found the death record for my gg grandfather and it has different names for his parents than his marriage certificate has.
Same name for his father, but different name for his mum. I'm inclined to believe the death record because it has his mothers maiden name, which the marriage one doesnt. Soooo confusing!!
Same name for his father, but different name for his mum. I'm inclined to believe the death record because it has his mothers maiden name, which the marriage one doesnt. Soooo confusing!!
Phew punchy, good on you for succeeding against all odds ๐
Yes you are right. I keep firmly in my mind that there's many a slip t'wixt cup and lip but I have decided to keep going for the moment and go back over it all when I know even more.
Yeah gill, yipeee indeed. I have spent a lot of the day trying out different ways of overcoming this problem... I MAY have found a way around it, but I am still holding my breath every time I check out a person's relationship to me ๐
Yes you are right. I keep firmly in my mind that there's many a slip t'wixt cup and lip but I have decided to keep going for the moment and go back over it all when I know even more.
Yeah gill, yipeee indeed. I have spent a lot of the day trying out different ways of overcoming this problem... I MAY have found a way around it, but I am still holding my breath every time I check out a person's relationship to me ๐
