Needing help to start family tree

[nannyH 10]

Hi I am wanting to research my late husbands family tree for my children but don't know how to start it can anybody please help

[retep 68]

Some advice,

http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/

[davyboy 19]

There is a lot of rubbish in some family trees where someone has published a "fact" that is wrong and others have just incorporated the "fact" into their own tree.

Do NOT believe everything you see on the internet.

I have an example where a birth has been recorded BEFORE the father's birth.

PROVE everything and use the net as a guide.

A final warning.........It's addictive.

Edited March 11, 2016 by davyboy

[tzijlstra 11]

Hi I am wanting to research my late husbands family tree for my children but don't know how to start it can anybody please help

 

I'd start with your parents.

[Berberis 10]

Pen and paper is all you need for now. The value in a family tree is the data, not the format or the software you use.

[davyboy 19]

I'd start with your parents.

 

Not much use for hr husband's tree:D

[johnpm 18]

The following websites provide free data:

FreeBMD - indexes to births, marriages & deaths from 1837 to about 1980 - http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Sheffield indexers - lots of data inc burials, school registers, directories etc http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/

Family Search - lots of data collected by Mormons inc parish registers p- https://familysearch.org/

Sheffield & District Family History Society - http://www.sheffieldfhs2.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?

FeeREg - Free parish baptisms, marriages & burials -

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

You can usually get a free months access to ancestry.co.uk & Find my Past.

But as has been said, you need to write down first what you know about husbands parents, grandparents etc.

You can PM me if you want to get in direct contact.

Best of luck, John

[melcebu 10]

im looking at this also does anybody have experience with the pay sites find my past and ancestry are they the same or is one better than the other

[smary 14]

I have been researching for many years and use both ancestry and FMP. FMP now has the 1939 register which can be viewed with the normal subscription.

NannyH -If you go to the free birth marriages and deaths you could search for your husbands parents - then their marriage without having to pay.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk

[johnpm 18]

Re FMP & ancestry they each have things to recommend them. I think the ancestry search engines are better & easier to use than FMP. Ancestry also has the England & Wales National Probate Index which allows you to look at info to do with wills from 1858 to 1966. As has been said, FMP has the 1939 register which is very useful. They both have all the birth, marriage & death data so its "take your pick & take your chance" !!

[HughW 10]

I am told that Sheffield Libraries are about to let their subscription to Ancestry lapse in order to subscribe to FMP. This *might* be due to the fact that FMP were chosen a few years ago to film and digitise the parish records held by Sheffield Archives.

 

If you are likely to be researching Sheffield families you might want to take the above into account.

 

I use both. The newspapers available on FMP are important to me while the huge body of information in the trees on Ancestry is also a great asset (though not to be taken as gospel, as already mentioned).

 

Hugh

 

---------- Post added 01-04-2016 at 23:16 ----------

 

Concerning the specific topic of probate mentioned above, Ancestry no longer has an online monopoly now that the government has launched its own search site:

 

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

 

Hugh

[TORONTONY 10]

There is a lot of rubbish in some family trees where someone has published a "fact" that is wrong and others have just incorporated the "fact" into their own tree.

Do NOT believe everything you see on the internet.

I have an example where a birth has been recorded BEFORE the father's birth.

PROVE everything and use the net as a guide.

A final warning.........It's addictive.

 

Addictive? I have never known my father let alone who came before him, why people are obsessed with dead people, I will never understand. The only thing that makes sense is if there is a chance of some financial reward.