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Ed Rooney · 11 September 2010, 11:19 AM

Genealogy is one of my hobbies. I subscribe to Ancestry.com and have built a fairly thorough family tree. I qualified my kids for DAR and The Mayflower Society, should they ever decide to join those organizations.

I recently started tracing my ancestor's lines forward, but never had much luck as the England census' aren't public for 100 years. This means I can only see up the the 1901 census, versus the 1930 census in America. For that reason I always stopped around 1901. Last night I got bored with Brett Favre's rust, so I tried a different approach. Starting in 1915, England began listing spouse and mother's maiden name in the birth and marriage records. That enabled me to identify who the people married, then easily search for all of their children. I repeated the process through several family lines and generations, then after some diligent facebook searching, identified a large contingent of cousins with my last name in Bristol and Weston Super Mare. Then I was able contact one of them. Pretty cool when you consider that our last common ancestor was born in 1819.

Widows Son · 11 September 2010, 03:26 PM

Neat. I'm a direct descendant of John Alden from the Mayflower. The last person that I know of who belonged to the Mayflower Society was my great grandmother. I've recently began to look into joining myself.

jdc · 11 September 2010, 09:55 PM

My wife is very into this hobby too. You can now get the 1911 census if you pay try 'genes reunited'

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/

HarryPotions · 11 September 2010, 10:05 PM

Another great site is familytreeforum.com .... It's a free site and has members all over the world.

Not only is it a forum but it also has reference libaries
to help with research and many people willing to help you
investigate... Best of all it's free lol

Ed Rooney · 11 September 2010, 11:22 PM

I used findmypast.co.uk for about a month. I found a few pieces that had eluded me, but then I discovered that I could have found them on familysearch.org (the free LDS genealogy site), so I canceled.

The oldest ancestor I can find in my direct paternal line is a guy born in 1769 or so. The problem is, the parish registers for 4 years around the time of his birth were badly damaged. He died just before the BMD indexes began, and before the first true census.

TheVTCGuy · 12 September 2010, 07:39 AM

I was able to go on the internet, and see the register from the ship my Grandfather came over on in 1909. Pretty cool!

11 September 2010, 11:19 AM	#1
Ed Rooney "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Annapolis, MD Watch: Sea-Dweller 16600 Posts: 5,081	Genealogy Coup Genealogy is one of my hobbies. I subscribe to Ancestry.com and have built a fairly thorough family tree. I qualified my kids for DAR and The Mayflower Society, should they ever decide to join those organizations. I recently started tracing my ancestor's lines forward, but never had much luck as the England census' aren't public for 100 years. This means I can only see up the the 1901 census, versus the 1930 census in America. For that reason I always stopped around 1901. Last night I got bored with Brett Favre's rust, so I tried a different approach. Starting in 1915, England began listing spouse and mother's maiden name in the birth and marriage records. That enabled me to identify who the people married, then easily search for all of their children. I repeated the process through several family lines and generations, then after some diligent facebook searching, identified a large contingent of cousins with my last name in Bristol and Weston Super Mare. Then I was able contact one of them. Pretty cool when you consider that our last common ancestor was born in 1819.

11 September 2010, 10:05 PM	#4
HarryPotions "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Real Name: Stephen Location: Nottinghamshire Watch: SS Sub Date X Posts: 63	Another great site is familytreeforum.com .... It's a free site and has members all over the world. Not only is it a forum but it also has reference libaries to help with research and many people willing to help you investigate... Best of all it's free lol __________________ __________________________________________ His.... SS SUB DATE 16610 X Her's. OYSTERDATE 1962

11 September 2010, 03:26 PM	#2
Widows Son "TRF" Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hudson Ohio Posts: 3,555	Neat. I'm a direct descendant of John Alden from the Mayflower. The last person that I know of who belonged to the Mayflower Society was my great grandmother. I've recently began to look into joining myself.

11 September 2010, 09:55 PM	#3
jdc "TRF" Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Real Name: Martin Location: UK Posts: 7,023	My wife is very into this hobby too. You can now get the 1911 census if you pay try 'genes reunited' http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/

11 September 2010, 11:22 PM	#5
Ed Rooney "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Annapolis, MD Watch: Sea-Dweller 16600 Posts: 5,081	I used findmypast.co.uk for about a month. I found a few pieces that had eluded me, but then I discovered that I could have found them on familysearch.org (the free LDS genealogy site), so I canceled. The oldest ancestor I can find in my direct paternal line is a guy born in 1769 or so. The problem is, the parish registers for 4 years around the time of his birth were badly damaged. He died just before the BMD indexes began, and before the first true census.

12 September 2010, 07:39 AM	#6
TheVTCGuy Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Real Name: Paul Location: San Diego Watch: 126619LB Posts: 21,540	I was able to go on the internet, and see the register from the ship my Grandfather came over on in 1909. Pretty cool!

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