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[ozzycat]

hello to you all
 a quick question which is the best site to resurch your family tree
  many thanks kevin

[cam2502]

There's an advert for ancestory.com on tv.

[STMO123]

There's an advert for ancestory.com on tv.

I didn't find that very good. Maybe I'm not patient enough

[cam2502]

Church records of marriages and deaths could be helpful.

[pscocoa]

hello to you all
 a quick question which is the best site to resurch your family tree
  many thanks kevin

It is not easy to select - I am using Ancestry  - it is expensive but my family has origins in the Chartist movement of 1830 to 1848 and one of them fled to America and was very influential in trade union building and anti slavery - hence I have upgraded to the international level. Also checking passenger lists on liners from UK to US.

All the sites catch you on the extras - I think all do free trials - Genes Reunited etc but once you have started to enter data it becomes an obsession. My advice would be to select a specific small number of persons in your tree and try the different systems on that small group but do not be tempted to go too early up all the paths that seems to open up or else you will have wasted a lot of time in re-entering data within the final choice of site that you make.

[SteveAvfc.]

Research my family tree about four years ago, used Ancestry.com was expensive but gave me plenty of useful info got me back to the early 1800s.

Try your local records office every thing you need there on microfilm and Church records they hold plenty of info.

Good luck it,s well worth the time and effort. 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

hello to you all
 a quick question which is the best site to resurch your family tree
  many thanks kevin

It is not easy to select - I am using Ancestry  - it is expensive but my family has origins in the Chartist movement of 1830 to 1848 and one of them fled to America and was very influential in trade union building and anti slavery - hence I have upgraded to the international level. Also checking passenger lists on liners from UK to US.

All the sites catch you on the extras - I think all do free trials - Genes Reunited etc but once you have started to enter data it becomes an obsession. My advice would be to select a specific small number of persons in your tree and try the different systems on that small group but do not be tempted to go too early up all the paths that seems to open up or else you will have wasted a lot of time in re-entering data within the final choice of site that you make.

Now that would be very interesting research pscocoa!!

If you do not know about it already, I would highly recommend one book out of many on the subject;   Chase, M. Chartism A New History Manchester University Press (2007)

This will give you a full academic account of the origins, progress and characters of the most interesting movement in British history

PS Another book that has a good section on Chartism (Pages 92-138) plus the general undercurrent of threatened revolution in Britain is:

Royle, E. Revolutionary Britannia? Manchester University Press (2000) 

[ozzycat]

  thanks for all your help 

[albitz]

The Mormon church can be a very useful source.Local records offices sre free and will save money if you use them.
I really cant see the point tbh.Ive no interest whatsoever in people who died before I was born,in fact I have an aunt who lives less than an hours drive from me who I havent got around to visiting ince I arrived in England in 1979.
Wife is into it in a big way though.

[Varche]

A good point to start is actually with talking to all the elderly members of your family.

Both sides of my family have interesting stories to tell.

Then once you have done that and documented itthen the real legwork begins.!

Albitz. Shame on you for not visiting your aunt. When she is dead it will be too late.

[pscocoa]

You can do interesting things which may be of interest to your family in the future - for example I have recorded sound clips of my dad talking about the 1930s, loaded old family photos etc - you also come across others searching the same people within their own trees and you often get added value to your own research.

Of course there is a lot of stuff which is war / services related which yields interesting facts and sometimes match up with family photos eg my dad's Egypt tour in the war

[pscocoa]

hello to you all
 a quick question which is the best site to resurch your family tree
  many thanks kevin

It is not easy to select - I am using Ancestry  - it is expensive but my family has origins in the Chartist movement of 1830 to 1848 and one of them fled to America and was very influential in trade union building and anti slavery - hence I have upgraded to the international level. Also checking passenger lists on liners from UK to US.

All the sites catch you on the extras - I think all do free trials - Genes Reunited etc but once you have started to enter data it becomes an obsession. My advice would be to select a specific small number of persons in your tree and try the different systems on that small group but do not be tempted to go too early up all the paths that seems to open up or else you will have wasted a lot of time in re-entering data within the final choice of site that you make.

Now that would be very interesting research pscocoa!!

If you do not know about it already, I would highly recommend one book out of many on the subject;   Chase, M. Chartism A New History Manchester University Press (2007)

This will give you a full academic account of the origins, progress and characters of the most interesting movement in British history

PS Another book that has a good section on Chartism (Pages 92-138) plus the general undercurrent of threatened revolution in Britain is:

Royle, E. Revolutionary Britannia? Manchester University Press (2000) 

Thanks Lizzie - there is a lot of stuff around and Chartists.net is pretty middle ground stuff. Some American researchers regard these Chartists who fled UK extremely influential in the development of the US.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A good point to start is actually with talking to all the elderly members of your family.

Both sides of my family have interesting stories to tell.

Then once you have done that and documented itthen the real legwork begins.!

Albitz. Shame on you for not visiting your aunt. When she is dead it will be too late.

How true that is Varche!

I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with my Great Aunt Kit in my childhood, then onto my adulthood.  In fact she died at the grand age of 95, when I was in my late thirties.  By talking to her I learnt so much about family, social, and general history from Victorian England onwards. She also regularly talked about one of her brothers, my Great Uncle Wally, who was killed at Ypres on the 30th July, 1917 during the Great War. What a privilege all that was, and it set me up for life to study and read history, coupled with the rest of our  families great interest in that subject.

Never turn that type of opportunity down!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

hello to you all
 a quick question which is the best site to resurch your family tree
  many thanks kevin

It is not easy to select - I am using Ancestry  - it is expensive but my family has origins in the Chartist movement of 1830 to 1848 and one of them fled to America and was very influential in trade union building and anti slavery - hence I have upgraded to the international level. Also checking passenger lists on liners from UK to US.

All the sites catch you on the extras - I think all do free trials - Genes Reunited etc but once you have started to enter data it becomes an obsession. My advice would be to select a specific small number of persons in your tree and try the different systems on that small group but do not be tempted to go too early up all the paths that seems to open up or else you will have wasted a lot of time in re-entering data within the final choice of site that you make.

Now that would be very interesting research pscocoa!!

If you do not know about it already, I would highly recommend one book out of many on the subject;   Chase, M. Chartism A New History Manchester University Press (2007)

This will give you a full academic account of the origins, progress and characters of the most interesting movement in British history

PS Another book that has a good section on Chartism (Pages 92-138) plus the general undercurrent of threatened revolution in Britain is:

Royle, E. Revolutionary Britannia? Manchester University Press (2000) 

Thanks Lizzie - there is a lot of stuff around and Chartists.net is pretty middle ground stuff. Some American researchers regard these Chartists who fled UK extremely influential in the development of the US.

Yes, they would as they recall the influence of Tom Paine who gave the American Revolution against King George III and the British great inspiration and leadership, as he did to the French Revolution of 1789.  Paine ideals spread back to England (against the philosophy of Edmund Burke, the father of Conservatism, who was against all these recent Revolutions and a break away from tradition British values) and although he died in 1809 before the Chartist movement started, his philosophy again gave momentum and initiative to it for another form of "revolution", although it never quiet came to that, for the working classes to gain rights generally, let alone a reform of Parliament and the voting rights of all British people.  Anyone who was a Chartist would easily fit in to the new United States of America and it's Constitution, and be rated as very worthy politically astute individuals. 

[Keith ABS]

  My ex wifes grandfather researched his family tree. as he had an unusual surname it was easier for him, but it did take fourty years. he traced it all the way back to the viking times, when his ancestors came to Britain. just as well he had a job that gave him a lot of spare time to do the research, a headmaster.
Keith B