margie
Moderator
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Lucy - if your Mum's Memory is not good could you ask her if she has any certificates at home that you could look through - the names on them may jog her memory.
She may also have letters, old address books that will give you names - and although you won't initially know where they fit - they may start to fall in place.
There are registers for those adopted after 1927 - though I don't know how to access them. Adoptions before that date were not recorded they were an informal arrangement and some people took the names of the family who adopted them but that was not always the case.
When using electronic records beware that not all records have been transcribed. I have come across many instances were people have linked some of my ancestors to the wrong tree simply because they have found someone elses online tree who have done the same. In one case it really stands out as you jump half way across the country which could be valid but in this case isn't as I have seen the local records.
Mis spellings of names can be a nightmare - with Irish names O and Mc are added and dropped at will.
There are other sites you can try
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/
it links to many other sites which provide transcriptions such as
www.lancashirebmd.org.uk
This site is slowly transcribing the local reference to Births Marriages & Deaths. All Liverpool marriages from 1875 to 1935 have been included. (Those in Bootle are not on the list).
More than one year can be selected using the mouse and dragging downwards over the years.
If an * occurs then that indicates uncertainty over one or both surnames - sometimes due to a previous marriage.
For marriages in the Anglican Church - the church the marriage took place is given and then providing the church has been filmed by Liverpool record office at central library -a copy can be obtained in the library via a reader-printer.
The entry is the same that can be obtained from the Cotton Exchange or from Southport - but they will send a new certificate and it will cost several pounds.
Marriages that say registry office or registrar attended may have taken place in a church and could be associated with a Catholic, Methodist etc marriage.
Then there is
www.familysearch.org
Site created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It contains a transcription of the 1881 census which allows easy navigation from one house to the next.
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) contains details of Baptisms marriages and deaths that members of the church have recorded whilst researching their ancestors as part of their beliefs in saving souls. Not all parishes have been transcribed. If a reference is found then the actual entry in the church records can be accessed at the local record office - the entry sometimes contains additional information but sometimes there is no additional information. Some Catholic records have been transcribed as per the registers where the names have been entered as their Latin equivalent.
For Scottish Records the main site available is
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
A pay for view site run by the government
Contains all the Scottish census data, Some Births Marriages & Deaths. Access to the Scottish Old Parish Records is available for pre registration data.
This site allows the actual entry in the registers to be downloaded - which is considerably cheaper than ordering the certificates.
Scottish certificates contain more information than the English & Welsh equivalents
Wedding certificates contain the christian and maiden names of the mothers. Where the mother had been widowed and remarried all previous surnames can be found.
Birth certificates list the date and place of the parents wedding as well as all the usual info.
Death certificates contain information on the deceased’s parents and their mother’s maiden name.
There is also
www.cwgc.org
Lists the war dead - gives their regiments where they are buried or memorialised (where the body was never found - ship sunk or not possible to identify). Pictures of the war cemeteries are on the site. The next of kin of the deceased and normally their address is also given.
I wrote a lot of the above some time back so the sites may have more on them now.
Other things to be aware of - sometimes people are known by their middle names so the name you are looking for may be wrong.
In Catholic families middle names may have been added at confirmation and so although on death certificates may not be on the birth certificates.
She may also have letters, old address books that will give you names - and although you won't initially know where they fit - they may start to fall in place.
There are registers for those adopted after 1927 - though I don't know how to access them. Adoptions before that date were not recorded they were an informal arrangement and some people took the names of the family who adopted them but that was not always the case.
When using electronic records beware that not all records have been transcribed. I have come across many instances were people have linked some of my ancestors to the wrong tree simply because they have found someone elses online tree who have done the same. In one case it really stands out as you jump half way across the country which could be valid but in this case isn't as I have seen the local records.
Mis spellings of names can be a nightmare - with Irish names O and Mc are added and dropped at will.
There are other sites you can try
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/
it links to many other sites which provide transcriptions such as
www.lancashirebmd.org.uk
This site is slowly transcribing the local reference to Births Marriages & Deaths. All Liverpool marriages from 1875 to 1935 have been included. (Those in Bootle are not on the list).
More than one year can be selected using the mouse and dragging downwards over the years.
If an * occurs then that indicates uncertainty over one or both surnames - sometimes due to a previous marriage.
For marriages in the Anglican Church - the church the marriage took place is given and then providing the church has been filmed by Liverpool record office at central library -a copy can be obtained in the library via a reader-printer.
The entry is the same that can be obtained from the Cotton Exchange or from Southport - but they will send a new certificate and it will cost several pounds.
Marriages that say registry office or registrar attended may have taken place in a church and could be associated with a Catholic, Methodist etc marriage.
Then there is
www.familysearch.org
Site created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It contains a transcription of the 1881 census which allows easy navigation from one house to the next.
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) contains details of Baptisms marriages and deaths that members of the church have recorded whilst researching their ancestors as part of their beliefs in saving souls. Not all parishes have been transcribed. If a reference is found then the actual entry in the church records can be accessed at the local record office - the entry sometimes contains additional information but sometimes there is no additional information. Some Catholic records have been transcribed as per the registers where the names have been entered as their Latin equivalent.
For Scottish Records the main site available is
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
A pay for view site run by the government
Contains all the Scottish census data, Some Births Marriages & Deaths. Access to the Scottish Old Parish Records is available for pre registration data.
This site allows the actual entry in the registers to be downloaded - which is considerably cheaper than ordering the certificates.
Scottish certificates contain more information than the English & Welsh equivalents
Wedding certificates contain the christian and maiden names of the mothers. Where the mother had been widowed and remarried all previous surnames can be found.
Birth certificates list the date and place of the parents wedding as well as all the usual info.
Death certificates contain information on the deceased’s parents and their mother’s maiden name.
There is also
www.cwgc.org
Lists the war dead - gives their regiments where they are buried or memorialised (where the body was never found - ship sunk or not possible to identify). Pictures of the war cemeteries are on the site. The next of kin of the deceased and normally their address is also given.
I wrote a lot of the above some time back so the sites may have more on them now.
Other things to be aware of - sometimes people are known by their middle names so the name you are looking for may be wrong.
In Catholic families middle names may have been added at confirmation and so although on death certificates may not be on the birth certificates.
