Genealogy

[SydneyRover]

If you are building a family tree and like us do it in fits and starts Ancestris is freeware and has been built over about 20 years. We have only started putting data in it and are finding our way around, but it appears to be quite versatile with lots of features. Other trees already built can be imported.

There is a link below where the software builder discusses it with a genealogy blogger with how-to help.

https://www.ancestris.org/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728poLdQZCM

[Ldr]

Cheers Syd

[Filo]

I have got back to the 1600s on my Dads side of the family, my Great Grandfather’s parents and siblings went over to Utah in America and became Mormons, my Great Grandfather stayed here and had 17 kids, my Grandfather being the youngest surviving kid

[Bristol Red Rover]

I managed to go as far as my 10x great grandad Geatiosus born 1593 I think, all the way down my paternal line,  same surname, fortunately not same first name  He ran a pub in Market Warsop.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Sid might find this site useful -- not so much for the geneology

its free - i might have other information sources

i have got at the Australian newspapers for free (forgot how) at the minute


https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

British newspapers get a mention on here as well as the local ones

( can't find when Sid's family were deported for stealing a loaf though     )


i just put "doncaster rovers"  in here for a bit of fun    and some of you might find it interesting


https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?snippet=true&query=%22doncaster+rovers%22


you can see the "poverty Bay " Herald ..... nice name


https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19330120.2.55?items_per_page=10&page=3&query=%22doncaster+rovers%22&snippet=true

[SydneyRover]

I haven't stolen bread but I often steal a march on many.

[SydneyRover]

Anyone wanting to use the above software should know it makes back up copies automatically, you can set preferences to reduce or stop it altogether and you can also set which copy automatically opens with the application.

The help/explanation vid at 53min is a graph that can display all the links of the tree, not fully across this yet but QI and at 55 shows how you can have online discussion with those that share ancestors via P2P protocol, only common ancestor info is shared and of course you have to contact the person first.

[wilts rover]

There are a lot of American newspapers available for free here if you have ancestors who went over there:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

The Mormon FH is free and very good, something to do with how the sect regards ancestors I think. So anyone with Mormon ancestors has a good chance of finding more out about them and that family line.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/

I have worked in genealogy for the past 10 years. First with Forces War Records then Ancestry after they bought us out during the pandemic. Only to shut us down 18 months later unfortunately, but thanks for the good times lads.

Got dad's side back to Leeds in the early 1600's and mum's in the Isle of Axholme since at least mid 1600's. Nothing of any great significance on either but the future Mrs Wilts Rover is related to the Mayflower Pilgrims, a pair of brothers who fought on either side in the American Revolutionary War and a Union solider in the US Civil War.