From: Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net
On 4/21/2019 10:37 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message , Keith Nuttle
> writes:
>> On 4/21/2019 3:54 AM, MB wrote:
>>> On 21/04/2019 07:12, Peter wrote:
>>>> Just starting into genealogy. And very confusing it is too.
>>>> Thank you for the information.
>>>> Petefj
>>> Find someone with an interest in the subject and an Ancestry or FMP
>>> account, possibly in the local FHS.
>>> It can be surprising how much you can find sometimes in quite a
>>> short time.
>
> Indeed; these days, especially with access to an Ancestry or FMP account
> (but even with just FreeBMD and the GRO if you don't hit any walls), you
> can get a fair-sized tree in a short time. (For UK folk, that is.)
>>>
>> I am in the US. Our library are mostly free, but I am 700 miles of
> As are ours, and most have Ancestry or FMP.
>> where my ancestors lived. However using the resources on the internet
>> I have been able to lean a lot about my families for about 7
>> generations from the online document images.
>>
>> While some people complain about the cost of Ancestry, the
>> subscription works out to about $20 US/week. That does not go very
>> far toward the
>
> It sounds a lot when you put it like that!
>
>> cost of the gasoline to get to the archives that contain the
>
> Indeed, I would very rarely even consider going to an archive where the
> records were on Ancestry. (OK, distances are shorter here, but fuel is
> about 1.30 pounds a *litre* ...) Archives have more comprehensive and
> further-back records than Ancestry and FMP, though.
>
>> information you need. We are also very lucky in the US to have the
>> extensive online records that the Mormon's maintain which is free to all.
>
> We have access to them here too - and they cover quite a lot of here
> too. (I recommend their "Durham Diocese Bishop's Transcripts" - sadly
> _not_ *indexed*, but divided into parishes and within those into time
> blocks, and cover _lots_ of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, and
> Yorkshire.)
> []
>> Fortunately/Unfortunately most of us in the US are only able to push
>> our families back into the early 1700's so we do not have the rarer
>> documents that are available in Europe. I can only imagine living in
>> an area where the histories go back a thousand years or more.
>>
> Me too (-:. Online, we can mostly only get to early 1700s, or late 16xx,
> too; visiting archives _if_ they have the parish records will in most
> cases only get you to 15xx, and then only if you can be sure you're
> following the right line (the information in the typical parish record
> before printed forms is usually pretty minimal, and not enough to be
> sure you've got the right person). The only records that go back a
> _long_ way tend to be ones for aristocratic families and royalty - and
> some of _those_ are fanciful rather than accurate.
>>
> So it isn't a "golden area" of easy ancient records!
>>
> (I'm talking England/Scotland/Wales [Ireland - big fire in Dublin castle
> in the 1920s lost a lot - odd copies keep turning up from around
> Ireland]. Rest of Europe I know little of - though people I've spoken to
> say German records are good, despite what one might expect due to wars.)
The price of gasoline is going up in the US. Several months ago it was
about $2.00/gallon US, Today it is about $2.60/gallon US. I live about
10 miles from the nearest small town, and about 20 miles from the
nearest large town. There is no public transpiration so it does not take
many trips by car to ""town" to go through $20
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