Topic ID 2137
I have some certifcates that I ordered but have turned out to be for a different family, would we be allowed to pass them on if anyone else is from the correct family? No charge of course, just seems a shame that they do not relate to my family and may be of use to someone else.
Reply ID 28904
You could try posting a message on "genes reunited", isn't there a "surname-specific" forum? Seems a shame for the certificates to go to waste, as you say.
Reply ID 28907
quote:Do you know I never looked........I will now, I have had so many contacts with distant relatives resareching the same families from there. Am in the process of tracing part of the family in Watton at Stone with someone I contacted on there.
Originally posted by mangrovian
You could try posting a message on "genes reunited", isn't there a "surname-specific" forum? Seems a shame for the certificates to go to waste, as you say.
Reply ID 28918
You could also try a surname search on ancestry.com. You've got me at it now, spent a happy hour tracing ancestors in 18th century East Kent.
Reply ID 28922
You try searching for William Taylor's Deaths and see just how many you get, talk about common names. Even knowing it is Hertford I am still looking for their deaths, I have tried everything from Ancestry, free bmd, 1837 etc etc and I can't find them, going to HALS again on Friday to see if I can get any further with parish records. The certifactes get expensive when they keep being the wrong ones.
Reply ID 28928
How about the Probate Registry, in London, which is near Grays Inn Road/Southampton Row, near Royal Courts of Justice? You can order copies of wills on the spot. And then if you were in the area, you could try the Family Records Centre. The internet is great but it's fiendishly difficult with common surnames and gets expensive too.
Reply ID 28944
Thanks I will try all those, I will find them eventually! Don't think they were the sort of people to leave wills though but you never know.
Reply ID 28981
Occasionally they might have been called upon to witness a will, rather than making one themselves, and that in itself is sometimes documented. Have you tried putting the surname and maybe the street, town or year into "google"? This sounds really obvious but it actually worked for me and, with a common surname to go on, I found someone else had done a fair bit of the work already and had managed to trace the family back to the end of the fifteenth century.
Reply ID 28983
quote:I have got most of it and got the Taylor family back to the mid 1700's with a wedding in Bennington, we have travelled a long way in 250 years! Just that I cant find 2 perticular death records, I know a lot about them from censuses/ parish records etc and have biths/ marriages/ children etc but not their deaths and it is really frustrating. Thanks for the advice I am still nagging at it so one day I will get there!
Originally posted by mangrovian
Occasionally they might have been called upon to witness a will, rather than making one themselves, and that in itself is sometimes documented. Have you tried putting the surname and maybe the street, town or year into "google"? This sounds really obvious but it actually worked for me and, with a common surname to go on, I found someone else had done a fair bit of the work already and had managed to trace the family back to the end of the fifteenth century.
Reply ID 29005
Just a thought, did they die overseas on active service, in which case I'm not sure what happens about the death record? There is a section in the Family Records Centre in London on overseas births, marriages and deaths. Are you just pursuing the Taylor angle or are you looking at other parts of the family? It's difficult not to go off at a tangent, isn't it? What do you think of HALS as a resource, by the way?
Reply ID 29009
I think HALS is brilliant...and they are so helpful, I have found stuff up there I would never have even thought of! It is very easy to go off at a tangent, I do get easily distracted by side branches. I have done all branches back to 1837 and most further than that, the 2 deaths were in Hertford as far as I can tell one between 1851 and 1861 censuses, he was 69 in 1851, widowed and living with his daughter in Port Vale and the other his son who I can't find after 1861 when he was widowed and living in Dimsdale Buldings, St Andrews Street. They never seem to have gone far as all the addresses are Wallfieleds, Parliament Row, St Andrews Street on the parish baptism records and censuses. I will work it out eventually just proving more difficult than some of the more unusual names in the tree!