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Anyone watch "Who Do You Think You Are"?- looking for genealogy help

MissGobby

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MissGobby

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I have been watching this for the past two weeks, it is on Wednesday nights at 9pm and shows celebs tracing their ancesters! i am VERY interested in doing this about my family, but i know when doing your family tree it can take years, i just want to find stuff out about my ancesters, The celeb (cant remember his name - him off My Family??) went to a place where they had all the records and someone helped him, i would love to go to one of these and find things out, does anyone know where i can go please? i am fascinated by this and would loev to find out about my family!!!

 

if anyone can help, thanks in advance :) xx

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I try and watch it whenever I can - I think it's really interesting too.

 

The Sheffield Archives hold parish and burial records for Sheffield, as well as marriage birth and death certificate indexes. The staff there are really friendly - you do have to register with the archives to use their resources, but it's free. You just need to take two forms of ID with you - one with your current address and another with your signature. You can also access ancestry.com from the archives free of charge - good for getting birth, marriage and death certificate information.

 

The National Archives website also has some useful tips on starting to research your family tree (here).

 

Finally, if you know the names of your great grandparents / great great grandparents, take a look at the 1901 census. That will at least tell you where they were living in 1901 and how old they were at that time (useful if you are not sure of their birth date) . The census can be accessed online, here. Most of it is free, but you do have to pay to see scanned copies of the original census and information such as whose else was at that address on the night of the census.

 

HTH - good luck! :)

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Yeah, I've been watching as I'm currently researching my family history. The place where Robert Lyndsey (sp?) went was the National Archives place at London. They also have a website... http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ which you may find interesting. If you are serious about this then there are some other sites out there that would be a huge help like:

 

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk

http://www.ancestry.co.uk

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Iv done my family tree's here some good links to help you get on the sites to help you.

 

http://www.ancestry.co.uk

this lets you look up the uk census dated from 1851-1901.

It a charge of 5 pound for so many views of it,or a years membership at about 60 pound.

 

http://www.1837online.com/HomeServlet

1837 online also shows you census but also gives you refrence numbers for birth,death and wedding certificates.

Also 5 pound for 50 credits.

 

http://www.cwgc.org/

common war graves comission it shows you who was in 1st and second world war and where there buried.

Free

 

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

Its free here to add yor tree and member ship is only 7 pound for year,

Iv found a lot of relatives on here that i didnt even know of.

 

hope this helps charlie

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the program is repeated mid-evening on BBC2, on tuesday nights.

 

It's a very good program.

 

At the end of the program they make an announcement, where they give you information about how to delve further. you can go to BBC.co.uk forward-slash history I think, and get info.

 

PT

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