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Post by barcroftlad on Feb 24, 2013 22:49:58 GMT
Some of you might know that I have written my family history as I recall it, combined with my memories of growing up in Keighley/Cross Roads and Haworth. I enjoyed that experience so much I decided to follow it up with recollections of my life as a young migrant to Australia and my years there in the mid-late 50s, early 60s before taking up a job opportunity in New Zealand where I still live. These have gone down fairly well with folk who know me and were a part of my early life so my next task is to record my NZ years. However, I have a confession to make and that is I have never got around to doing a family tree, scared off I think by a complicated family history with both sides being affected by WW1 and re-marriages. I retired just a few months ago and thought it is about time I tackled it so, exploring a few avenues like "where do I start?" I called into the local library, not our usual one as we have recently sold our big house and until our new one is built are renting in a nearby suburb. This seems a long winded intro into what I am writing about but I picked up off the shelf a couple of "Family Tree" magazines from March and April 2012. Each has a complimentary CD attached to the cover with free directory assistance and printable family trees to fill in. I placed the first CD into my computer and brought up the sample blank family trees. Then I had a look at the extra ones offering assistance in filling in the trees and this is where the amazing coincidence happened. The sample families are FROM HAWORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Of all the villages, towns in England that might have been used they chose the area where I grew up in the 40s and 50s. Some of the names Crabtree/Aykroyd/Kitchen/Pullen/Rothwell/Burwen.
The main name is Crabtree, Joseph Robert, father James, g-father Joseph,gg father Jonas, 2nd great also Jonas. Anyone searching these families or interested in them. Let me know. Also, any advice of avenues to explore would be appreciated. There seems to be many forms of assistance and no doubt some will be better than others and some might have a cost with it. Cheers, Bill.
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Post by fsharpminor on Feb 25, 2013 9:30:19 GMT
Some of you might know that I have written my family history as I recall it, combined with my memories of growing up in Keighley/Cross Roads and Haworth. I enjoyed that experience so much I decided to follow it up with recollections of my life as a young migrant to Australia and my years there in the mid-late 50s, early 60s before taking up a job opportunity in New Zealand where I still live. These have gone down fairly well with folk who know me and were a part of my early life so my next task is to record my NZ years. However, I have a confession to make and that is I have never got around to doing a family tree, scared off I think by a complicated family history with both sides being affected by WW1 and re-marriages. I retired just a few months ago and thought it is about time I tackled it so, exploring a few avenues like "where do I start?" I called into the local library, not our usual one as we have recently sold our big house and until our new one is built are renting in a nearby suburb. This seems a long winded intro into what I am writing about but I picked up off the shelf a couple of "Family Tree" magazines from March and April 2012. Each has a complimentary CD attached to the cover with free directory assistance and printable family trees to fill in. I placed the first CD into my computer and brought up the sample blank family trees. Then I had a look at the extra ones offering assistance in filling in the trees and this is where the amazing coincidence happened. The sample families are FROM HAWORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Of all the villages, towns in England that might have been used they chose the area where I grew up in the 40s and 50s. Some of the names Crabtree/Aykroyd/Kitchen/Pullen/Rothwell/Burwen. The main name is Crabtree, Joseph Robert, father James, g-father Joseph,gg father Jonas, 2nd great also Jonas. Anyone searching these families or interested in them. Let me know. Also, any advice of avenues to explore would be appreciated. There seems to be many forms of assistance and no doubt some will be better than others and some might have a cost with it. Cheers, Bill. Good luck with your family tree. I retired Easter last year and have been doing mine also. The further back you go the more complicated it becomes and of course more threads to follow. It's fairly straightforward back to 1800 or so, because you have Census recordings starting in 1841 and regisrtation of births ,marriages and deaths from 1837. Before that you are largely reliant on parish records, some of which are on line and some not (West Yorks is well served .) Ancestry.com is the best website to subscribe to, it has more databases than the others. My ancestry pre 1900 is not in Keighley, half of my family is East Riding, and there are less Parish records available online.Id have to visit the archives in Beverley to search properly. Local Family History Societies are also useful - most counties have some. I have managed to follow one thread back to AD450, this took me back to an ancient Scottish clan in Caithness (Clan Gunn), which in turn is descended from Norse pirates/invaders into the Scottish Isles, particularly Orkney ! I have also been doing a local (Wirral) course on tracing family history. |
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Post by barcroftlad on Feb 27, 2013 4:24:34 GMT
Thanks for that fsharpminor. I have had a look at Ancestry.com a few times and it seems to be very good. Roots chat seems to be a very busy site. I found that by accident! I guess I will find out the hard way. Cheers.
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