Category: family history
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Stretching a connection to the grave
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, for some reason, has never made it to my bookmarks before today. On reading the Death Records feature in the current issue of Who Do You Think You Are? magazine (out in the shops today) I realised it was time for a look. The site has a very useful “Debt of Honour register” {2}, which has a reasonable search facility and connections to further details of the war cemeteries listed. I haven’t found any previously unknown WW1 deaths here » »
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See your ancestors get the vote
NB. Key to abbreviations at the end of this article, followed by some info on entitlement to vote. The latest collection of records available from Ancestry.co.uk is the ‘London Electoral Registers 1835-1965’ which “includes over 150 million names from right across the old counties of London and Middlesex”. Of course many of these names are repeated over the years, and the information contained is largely just name and address, but you could find fuller names (e.g. I’ve discovered one person’s middle initial of M was for » »
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The Beasor connection
A fascinating start to 2012 and the addition of a Beasor family page to Cutlock & Co. A cousin to my nephews uploaded some old Beasor photos to Ancestry.co.uk following a Christmas visit to his (and their) gran. Almost as soon as I created a link to these on my Ancestry tree, my dad’s second cousin Muriel spotted them and realised she knew this Beasor family. Deptford Church group photo – see below for ‘all the names’ The church photo in Muriel’s possession helps to tell » »
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The Cutlock wrap for 2011
The traditional year-end review – developments in family history research on Cutlock & Co and the HowesWatkinsNealScott tree {Note 1}. What I wished for At the start of 2011, I wrote Looking ahead to look behind on this site, anticipating what progress might be made over the year. I gave an update half way through the year, when there was already only one significant outstanding item – making a connection with relations from the Cullum family, who shared great great grandmother Harriet Cutlock as an ancestor. » »
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Lording it in Bergh Apton – the variability of names
The spelling of surnames is a frequent problem for the family history researcher, for experienced hands as well as newbies. Usually this is put down to the poor literacy levels up to late 19th century, with those filling in the registers putting down how they think it out to be, based on what they hear. Here’s a nice little story which came my way this week through a Norfolk connection on the Watts side of the family. I had already encountered uncertainty in the spelling of » »
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First update for Family Tree Maker 2012
Note: this is now an old article – please see the documentation of further updates to FTM 2012 on our FTM Notes page instead. Family Tree Maker 2012 has a mandatory update – version 21.0.0.452 (mine was previously .388, presumably the UK release version number). The install routine is a little annoying – three confirmation boxes for the upgrade to run, with only one having any options other than ‘cancel’ (and unlikely that you’d want to change the selection). The update doesn’t give a confirmation that » »