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StewL
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More success on my lines

Post by StewL » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:01 am

Well I finally decided to officially place this in the success stories.

I have been having some great success lately with getting more wains in my main lines, through the use of 1841 censuses
As some of you would be aware I was always a bit reluctant to use census information, probably due to the very, very poor results I got when I first started this game. :oops:

But thanks to Jack convincing me otherwise, I now am a great supporter of using census data.

For those of you who might be interested, I now start my census searches using the wains of the parents I am looking at, then searching for the parents in same locations. When I say I am having good results, I am only talking about a couple of families at the present, but to me they are important as I only had one or maybe two wains in my list, usually of course direct descendants, but now I have 7-8 for each line. :D

Of course there are still parents where I have come to a brickwall, but on one of my Stewart lot, I am tending to think he may have been an only child.

But most thanks should go to all the good people on this site who have helped me from a raw beginner to a reasonably competent researcher, note I only say reasonably competent :D

Ps. Yesterday I got my first matches on FreeCen :lol:
Stewie

Searching for: Anderson, Balks, Barton, Courtney, Davidson, Downie, Dunlop, Edward, Flucker, Galloway, Graham, Guthrie, Higgins, Laurie, Mathieson, McLean, McLuckie, Miln, Nielson, Payne, Phillips, Porterfield, Stewart, Watson
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joette
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Location: Clydebank

Post by joette » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:46 am

Well done Stewie.It's great when things just come together.
I too have found great success on the Census-especially when it's the grandweans staying with Granny that night.Opens up avenues which were closed when the surname is a common one.
It's usually the Parish of birth which is the best help to me on my quest.
Glad you have been "converted" as to their usefullness.
Researching:SCOTT,Taylor,Young,VEITCH LINLEY,MIDLOTHIAN
WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
LINLEY/VEITCH-SASK.Canada
ALSO BROWN,MCKIMMIE,MCDOWALL,FRASER.
Greer/Grier,Jenkins/Jankins
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Jean Jeanie
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Post by Jean Jeanie » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:56 am

Hi Stewie

Like you, to begin with I didn't bother much with censuses. Again. like you, Jack converted me :lol: I now own quite a few CD's and these have been very helpful. Again I must thank Jack for pointing me in the right direction. They are really geat when they show up another relie living with the family. I've had quite a few of those.

The other very useful tool I have found are MIs. To begin with I didn't think any of my lot would have been well off enough to have a gravestone. However, much to my surprise, quite a few did and the information on the ones pre 1855 are great. It really ties down dates and confirms marriages, children etc.

Jean
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StewL
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Location: Perth Western Australia

Post by StewL » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:33 am

Thanks all

Jean like you I never thought to look at MI's as my lot were as poor as church mouses :lol:

So perhaps that is another avenue I will have to move onto in the future. So I must find out what MI's are available for the possible locations of my long lost deid punters :wink:
Stewie

Searching for: Anderson, Balks, Barton, Courtney, Davidson, Downie, Dunlop, Edward, Flucker, Galloway, Graham, Guthrie, Higgins, Laurie, Mathieson, McLean, McLuckie, Miln, Nielson, Payne, Phillips, Porterfield, Stewart, Watson
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Alice Bradford
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1841 Census

Post by Alice Bradford » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:23 am

The 1841 census that I looked at did not give relationships and so I wondered how I was supposed to find out how some of the people were related. I wanted to look at the 1851 census and it wasn't on Ancestry and so I stopped there for the time being. I'd appreciate any advice anyone can give me.
Thanks,
Alice
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Ted
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Location: Galashiels, Scottish Borders

Post by Ted » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:55 am

Hi Alice

You can search on the 1851 census on Scotlands People- there is a link on the tabs at the top of this page - also if you click on the cenus tab you can get great guidance details. If you get stuck - post up who you are looking for - yer pals here on TS will soon help.

Best regards

Ted
Looking for Allan / Gordon / Troup / McInnes / Grant / Taylor / Jackson from Aberdeen (city & shire) & Banffshire
Alexander / Allan / Stewart in W Lothian
Allan / Burnett in USA and Canada / Davidson & Philp in Fife and Lanarkshire
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Alice Bradford
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Joined: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:19 am

Thanks

Post by Alice Bradford » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:58 pm

Thanks Ted, I will try that. I'd decided to leave my Scottish research alone for a while because of brick walls. Now you will have me back trying.
Thanks again,
Alice
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