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296 | <p>Searching for the marriage of Griffith Roberts and Jane Pritchard sometime between 1855 (when the groom would have been about 18 and the bride 25) and 1866 in Caernarvonshire, Wales (where they were both born and resident at the birth of their two known children in 1859 and 1866 ), I haven't found a single marriage ... |
307 | <p>People can have many different names over time. Examine the example of a woman who immigrated to the US from an Eastern European country. She could have three names over time:</p>
<ul>
<li>Katerina Jurkiewicz (Birth Name)</li>
<li>Katherine Yurkiewicz (Name used in the US)</li>
<li>Katherine Davis (Married Name)</l... |
152 | <p>I have a female great grand-mother in England for whom I have her marriage certificate and her death certificate, plus census records from marriage until death. From these I know her unmarried name, an approximate year of birth (1865), a supposed place of birth (Dudley, England) and (from her marriage certificate) a... |
2294 | <p>The parish register for St. Dogwells, Pembrokeshire has the following entry for 1799:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/o7N00.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>There is no burial record in this or an adjacent parish church in Wales for an infant John James between 1799 and 1802 with the correct ... |
2495 | Questions related to ensuring that the privacy of living individuals and potentially-sensitive information is preserved when collecting and publishing family history and genealogical data. |
1596 | <p><a href="http://www.findmypast.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Findmypast</a> is an excellent resource for UK records, but is there an easy way that I can find the <a href="http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/parish-records/baptisms?tab=1" rel="nofollow">parish baptisms</a> for <strong>any</strong> child born to a given set of... |
2507 | Questions about locating specific records of reference works identified by geography, date, type or topic. Used to enquire about availability and identification of such resources. |
2717 | San Francisco is a city in the state of California (within the United States of America). Spanish colonisation started in the late 1700s. The area became part of Mexico in 1821 and was ceded to America in 1848. |
2665 | <p>In my research, I have consulted the "Women's Land Army: Index to Service Records of the Second World War" held on microfiche at The (UK) National Archives (MAF421), as described <a href="http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C15627" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
<p>Consulting Shown Mills' ... |
2711 | Boston is the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the North-Eastern United States, founded in 1603 by Puritan colonists. |
2691 | Sources are documents, registers, publications, artefacts, people, websites and other sources of information used in genealogy and family history research. |
2963 | Use for questions about organising the electronic and physical documents that accumulate during the research process. |
3015 | <p>In the 1861 census of England, the sister of one of my ancestors is shown living as a 'nurse-child' some distance across London from where her mother was in hospital. How would the placement of a nurse-child have been arranged at this time?</p>
<p>(The parents are elusive before 1861 — no marriage record I can find... |
3053 | <p>Most genealogists and family historians use the web to help them perform their research or to share the results. Questions using this tag could include:</p>
<ul>
<li>How do I do X on a particular website?</li>
<li>What criteria should I use when deciding what website to use for X purpose?</li>
</ul>
<p>If you're ... |
3054 | Use this tag for questions about websites which assist a researcher with genealogy or family history research or sharing what they've learned. This does not include questions about software (which have their own tags). |
3142 | <p>In the 1891 Census of England and Wales for the household of James Jeans, Bermondsey, Southwark (RG12 piece 377 Folio 135 page 12), I can't read (1) the occupation of James Jeans and (2) the birthplace in Somerset, England of his wife Eliza. Can anyone help?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Hbil4.jpg" alt="Ce... |
3256 | Use this tags for questions related to coats-of-arms and other armorial bearings. |
3237 | <p>In 1805, according to the Bishops Transcripts for Little Newcastle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Elinor Hassall married John John. John, his descendants and relatives of the family were predominantly Baptists, so it seems reasonable to assume that Elinor was as well. The Parish Registers for marriages in Little Newcastle... |
3284 | <p>I just moved in to live with my grandmother. There is a ton of ephemera around, especially from the good old days when local newspapers reported on everything from illness to vacation. How can I catalog, preserve, and share this ephemera in a way that's consumable both physically (think scrapbooking, not food) and d... |
3357 | <p>My girlfriend and I both share the same last name and our families claim they are both from the same Korean surname "clan". This is a huge sticking point for her father. I know so far with certainty that we don't share a great-grandfather just by asking my grandmother about my grandfather's immediate family (my gr... |
3471 | <p>I have been considering getting a genetic test to get an idea of where my genes suggest my family has been. How reliable are these types of tests particularly as my ancestry seems to be spatially scattered?</p>
<p>Has anyone ever tried them before? If so, what are your experiences?</p>
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3446 | <p>Thomas Duffett (baptised 1785 Stalbridge, Dorset, England) had a couple of run-ins with the law and got himself sentenced to 7 years transportation. Twice. But he never left the country.</p>
<p>The first time around, in December 1816, he was sentenced to death for sheep stealing. The sentence was commuted to 7 year... |
3549 | <p><a href="https://www.23andme.com">23andMe</a>, <a href="http://dna.ancestry.com/">AncestryDNA</a>, and <a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/">Family Tree DNA</a> all allow you to export your raw DNA results. What is the advantage of doing this? Is there anywhere I can import it for additional analysis?</p>
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3581 | <p>Naturalization in the US was a <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/naturalization/naturalization.html" rel="nofollow">two step process</a> from 1790 through at least the mid 1900s (I don't know how it works now). The first step was filing a Declaration of Intention which could be done after living in the US fo... |
3612 | Use the terminology tag for questions related to the meaning of words within the context of genealogy/family history. Be careful not to ask questions that can answered with a simple dictionary search.
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3559 | Determining the relationship between two people.
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4083 | <p>In recent meanderings through my family history, we have found a link to medieval (15th and 16th century) Spain (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamplona" rel="nofollow">Pamplona</a> region to be precise) - so, is it possible to access records (births, deaths and marriages) from that region, from that time?</p... |
4108 | Used for questions about the historical context within which person of interests lived. Context may be helpful in locating sources and examining their reliability , in understanding what may have caused events in our ancestors' lives, as well as for enhancing our understanding of our ancestors' life stories. |
8101 | <p>I bought a National Geographic Geno 2.0 kit, tested by FamilyTreeDNA, and it says that I am of haplogroup that is very statistically unlikely for where my family is from.</p>
<p>ftDNA did not check any SNPs for the sibling branches to the Haplogroup. Could they have made a mistake?</p>
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8121 | <p>There are terms in this document (Parish/Parish Church, Banns/Licence, Established Church, Rect.[or]) that aren't familiar to everyone in a genealogical context (even in the English speaking world) </p>
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Jemw4.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>How best to explain the... |
8123 | The Anglican Church is the State-endorsed church in England and Wales. |
4168 | <p>I've a need to set up a website for a bunch of cousins who (maybe) share a common ancestry but who all definitely descend from people with the same surname in the same small village around 1800 and want to pool efforts to research and display our ancestry. The website will be <em>privately</em> hosted with PHP and ... |
9359 | <p>In the US, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, why did primarily the men only get naturalized? Why didn't women get naturalized? I've heard some say it's because the citizenship status of the man is all that mattered but censuses still recorded the men as naturalized and the women as aliens, so surely it must have ma... |
10152 | <p>What strategies should I adopt to find an elusive ancestor in the early twentieth century? He may have deserted his family, so I can't rely on records of a wife of children to corroborate identification.</p>
<p>For many years, I thought my great-grandfather [John] Stanley [Reynolds] Wright had a pretty well-documen... |
12031 | <p>I have in my possession a postcard that shows an colorised black-and-white image supposedly of my father (born 1927) and an unidentified girl. </p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/1T5j1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/1T5j1.jpg" alt="Colorised photograph"></a></p>
<p>I'm pretty cer... |
12037 | Use this tag for questions about Palestine prior to the creation of Israel in 1948 (to differentiate it from the modern Palestine). |
14125 | <p>During my research, I often want to 'rough out' simple multi-generation family trees (based on birth/bap/mar/death/bur) to explore, for example, how a bunch of entries in the parish registers on a single parish over a 150-year period (1700 - 1850 say), might fit together; or more simply, how all the individuals show... |
14175 | <p>My ancestors John Brooks and Ann Hallam married in November 1798 in Clifton with Glapton, Nottinghamshire. The couple had 8 children baptised between 1800 and 1813. (All sources except where specified are the Marriage, Baptism and Burial Indices prepared by Nottingham Family History Society).</p>
<p>In the 1841 cen... |
14329 | <p>I'm searching for the bmd records of a couple (Samuel and Ann Page) who were baptising their children in Brierley Hill Staffordshire in the early nineteenth century: </p>
<ul>
<li>Maria Page baptised March 1803</li>
<li>Sarah Page baptised May 1806</li>
<li>Samuel Page baptised Jan 1808.</li>
</ul>
<p>There are no... |
14346 | <p>I'm searching for the marriage of the parents of one of my ancestors, and the baptisms of her siblings, and have a sequence of events that could have multiple interpretations.</p>
<hr>
<p>Ann[e] Westwood was born in 1811 in Kingswinford Staffordshire (according to the 1841 and 1851 censuses, and her 1852 death cer... |
14461 | <p>Examples of endogamous groups include Jews, Polynesians, Low German Mennonites, the Amish, Acadians or Cajuns (French settlers in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada), French Canadians, people from many Arab countries, people from Newfoundland and people from many islands. Endogamy is also a problem in early Colonial Am... |
14462 | Endogamy is the practice of marrying within the same ethnic, cultural, social, religious or tribal group. In endogamous populations everyone will descend from the same small gene pool. People will be related to each other in a recent genealogical timeframe on multiple ancestral pathways . This requires particular atten... |
14503 | <p>What might the 'courting' and engagement period have been for a young couple in mid-nineteenth century Merthyr Tydfil. Their ages were both recorded as 21 at their marriage in the Register Office (when her step-father was present) but she was closer to 18. There's no evidence either way as to whether she was pregna... |
14572 | <p>The 1841 census for England and Wales (Piece number 1208, Book number 8, Folio number 26, Page number 2) has a John Wright aged 11 at Coventry Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. He is shown as being in a household on his own; the other household in the same property is that of Edward Harper a Publican.<... |
14585 | <p>According to the records available on <a href="https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60620" rel="noreferrer">Ancestry</a>, Edward Harper of Kidderminster joined the Lodge of Hope and Charity on 30 April 1836 aged 35 (so born approx 1801, which ties up with the 1841 census when he was shown as aged 45); h... |
14687 | Use for questions relating to Jersey in the Channel Islands. |
14685 | <p>On 21 May 1858, Edward Harper died in Grouville parish, Jersey; he made a will 3 days before he died (accessible via the Jersey Archives site at <a href="https://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/collection/Details/archive/110090231" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/collection/Details/archiv... |
14933 | <p>I manage a number of DNA profiles (for related individuals) across a number of sites:</p>
<ul>
<li>FamilyTreeDNA (5 profiles)</li>
<li>MyHeritage (5 profiles)</li>
<li>LivingDNA (2 profiles which will increase to 5 in the near future)</li>
<li>Ancestry (1 profile)</li>
<li>23andMe (1 profile)</li>
<li>Gedmatch (5 p... |
15621 | <p>I'm trying to find out if my great-grandfather was in the Italo-Turkish War 1911-1912.</p>
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16027 | <p><a href="http://overnight-scanning.eu/blog/what-is-microfilm-begginer-guide/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microfilm</a> is an archival preservation material that allows long-term preservation and viewing of archival material that would otherwise be too delicate to view. It is being challenged by digital imaging in man... |
16028 | For questions about source documents viewed on Microfilm. |
16030 | For questions about using the Living DNA website. |
16032 | For questions about identifying an individual's forename (sometimes referred to as first name or Christian name). |
16034 | For questions about the modern country of Estonia, and its historical predecessors. |
16036 | For questions about genealogy in the island of Iceland. |
16038 | For questions about records in the Irish Gaelic language.
If your interest is a record in Scots Gaelic, it should be tagged Scots-Gaelic. |
16040 | For questions about the current or historical territory of Indonesia. |
16042 | For questions about records in Irish Gaelic. |
16044 | For questions abour record from/events in the modern Republic of Bosnia. |
16046 | For questions about records or events in the historic county of Carmathenshire Wales. |
16048 | Use this tag for questions about how genealogists (world-wide) interact with and react to changes in the available tools to pursue genealogy. |
16050 | For questions related to event in or records form the historical county of Leicestershire in England. |
16052 | For questions about using or updating or contacting the website geni,com |
16054 | For questions about events or record pertaining to the English historical count of Middlesex. |
16056 | For questions pertaining to events in or records created by the country of Nicaragua. |
16058 | For questions pertaining to events in or records created by the state of North Dakota within the USA. |
16060 | Use this tag for records created or events happening in the English Civil War 1642 - 1651 and subsequent Commonwealth 1649-1653 and Protectorate 1653-1659. Record keeping was significantly disrupted during this period so it can be hard to research. |
16062 | Use this tags for records created in or events happening in the Scottish historic county of Ayrshire. |
16064 | Use this tag for questions about understanding/interpreting records created in Hebrew |
16066 | Use this tag for questions about individuals ho have been recorded with an honorific title, where you want to understand the meaning of the title and/or why it was granted. |
16068 | Use this tag for questions related to using the (no-defunct) mitosearch website. |
16070 | For questions relating to interpreting and using manorial documents in England and Wales. |
16072 | For questions relating to the ownership or legal transfer of property, including the associated legal documents |
16074 | Use for questions related to pursuing or documenting a one-place study. One-place-studies.org defines a one place study as considering "people and families in their physical and social context in any location across the globe." |
16076 | For questions about recording residence events. |
16078 | For questions about records in Jamaica, or events that happened there. |
16080 | Use this tag for questions events that were recorded in or happened in the Isle Of aMnn. |
15944 | <p>I have just received a bundle of copies of family history material found when my late aunt died (in 2013). Including copies of some certificates which I already have... except.</p>
<p>Why might somebody apply for a English copy birth certificate in the first half of the 20th century?</p>
<p><strong>My grandfather ... |
12753 | <p>A friend owns an English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_clock" rel="nofollow noreferrer">lantern clock</a> with the inscription "Wm Chittel of Studly". The clock dates to about 1635, and probably before 1642 as it is decorated with a ring of flowers that was used before the English Civil War. It was... |
13098 | <p>Ancestry.com has a category under the title <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/cs/jewishgen-all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jewish Records</a>, but I'm interested as to how it works exactly. Does anyone who is known to have been Jewish show up in the records, or is there something I'm missing? Maybe it has to do with o... |
13153 | Use this tag for questions about risks associated with genealogy, which may be the risks associated with DNA testing but also the risks associated with finding out things that others may be uncomfortable having down/being published. |
13150 | <p>It has recently occurred to me that I have been in intermittent contact with a second cousin who shares my father Y-DNA (subject to any mutations in the last two generations, which should be slight).</p>
<p>I don't believe he has ever had or considered Y-DNA, and I would like to pay for a test for him, as I have no... |
13528 | Use this tag for questions seeking software/website recommendations to carry out specific tasks.
Ensure your question has a specific bounded problem to solve and specific constraints and/or criteria for a good solution.
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13530 | Use for questions about the world Family Tree CDs. |
13532 | Use for questions about the FamilyEcho website. |
13540 | For questions about the Ancestor Research Tool product (which is no longer available) |
13541 | <p>I've recently made contact with a DNA match I found on myheritage.com.</p>
<p>The match is shown as:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Estimated relationships: 1st cousin twice removed - 3rd cousin once
removed</p></li>
<li><p>DNA Match quality: 1.3% (93.0 cM)</p></li>
<li><p>Shared DNA: 6 Shared segments 34.2 cM Largest segment<... |
13538 | For questions about Banner Blue software, which was a precursor to Family Tree Maker. |
13779 | <p>What strategy can I adopt to locate an English marriage record for two ancestors? </p>
<p>Of course, they may not have married at all, but Rebecca Probert points out in <em>Marriage Law for Genealogists the definitive guide</em> that the peak illegitimacy rate in the 19th century is about 7% so the vast majority of... |
13802 | <p>I'm looking at the City Directories for Youngstown, Ohio (Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. )</p>
<p>My ancestor William Staines (with his wife Catherine) and two of his sons moved to Youngstown from England in the late 1890s. A s... |
13988 | <p>I'm transcribing the Land Tax records (circa 1796-1831) for a set of contiguous parishes in Pembrokeshire (all North of the admittedly mobile "Landsker" line.)</p>
<p>Most of them have amounts 'for the Tythe' and for 'Glebe Land' as I would expect.</p>
<p>However, one parish (so far) -- Little Newcastle/Castell-ne... |
13932 | <p>I have an (extraordinarily helpful) banns record from Llanfair Nant Y Gof in Pembrokeshire in 1825, transcribed as follows:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>(Page 2) The year 1825 & 1826
[No. 3] Banns of Marriage between John James
of the chapelry of Llanvair Bachelor aged 25, lived with
his father at Trecwn Mill <stron... |
12371 | <p>While exploring the possibilities of the new GRO indices, I've come across an anomaly that I can't (yet) explain.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Various databases based on the 'old' GRO indices show a total of 5 births of Mary Harper in Dudley in 1860. For example, <a href="http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl" rel... |
16090 | Use for questions about the Genealogy Bank website. |
16092 | Use for questions about the dna website 23andme.com |
16230 | <p>Looking into the family history of a friend of a friend, I have brief details of two events for her mother, both of them from a birth certificate.</p>
<p>The mother (surname Stickel) was born in Warka (presumably Poland) in 1935; and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter in Himmelsthür (Germany) in 1953.</p>
<p>O... |
350 | <p>My grandfather, Robert Wright (born 1896, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England; and still living there in the 1911 census), fought in WW1 and was (according to family oral tradition) gassed while he was serving. He went on to marry in 1919 and have children in Birmingham, England.</p>
<p>None of his children are a... |
116 | <p>Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills (Mills, Elizabeth Shown. <em>Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace</em>. Revised edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2009.) is a citation guide widely used by genealogists and family historians. </p>
<p>Are there any other ci... |
1424 | <p>The name of this StackExchange site is 'Genealogy and Family History". That is two things instead of one. Why? What is the difference between those two things.</p>
<p>I want to know, because the definitions we hold both shape, and are shaped by, the questions we choose to investigate and the practices we adopt.</p>... |
2243 | <p>I'm struggling to read the place of birth of Elizabeth Jones (Head of household schedule 167) in this image from the 1871 census of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/j1Jeb.jpg" alt="Census schedule"></p>
<p>Here is a larger image of the problem word.</p>
<p><img src="https:/... |
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