Genealogy

What website can I go on to find out my Family History for free?

I really want to find out my family history but every website I go on wants money! Help????

You will need to get back to the 19th century from family knowledge before the free sites will be much use to you.

So talk to all your relatives, ask to see old photographs, records of birth, baptism, death and marriage, family Bibles, funeral service sheets, etc, and make copies. Find out where all your deceased relatives are buried, visit the graves, transcribe the information on the gravestones and take photographs. If you don’t know where people are buried or are unable to visit the graves, you may find them on www.findagrave.com

Too many of us family historians regret not questioning the oldies closely before they popped their clogs, so get all the names, dates and places you can and then check these against the official records. Then work back one generation at a time, using birth/baptism, death/burial and marriage records, and the census.

The national indexes of birth, marriage and death up to the 1930s can be searched at http://freebmd.org.uk Civil registration was introduced in England and Wales on 1st July 1837, although registration of births was not compulsory until 1875 and it is estimated that up to 50% of births may not have been registered in the early years. Search more recent indexes on microfiche at your County Record Office, central library, LDS Family History Centre, or at Ancestry.co.uk which you may be able to use for free at the library. Some local registration offices are putting their indexes online at http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/

When you have found the right entry in the index, the birth, marriage or death certificate costs £9.25 when ordered online from the General Register Office and providing them with the full reference from the index:- http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/Birthmarriageanddeathcertificates/DG_175628

The census returns for England and Wales from 1841 to 1911 are held at the National Archives at Kew, and the census images and transcriptions can be accessed via the links on their website:- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/default.htm?WT.hp=Census Only the 1881 census is available free online, all the others are on paid sites although it is free to search the indexes. If your local library has installed Ancestry Library Edition on their computers, you may be able to search the census there for free. Volunteers are transcribing the other censuses to make them freely available and this site has completed some counties for some years:- www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

On the free LDS sites you can search the 1881 census, and the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which is a large collection of extracts from parish registers. Many more records can be searched on microfilm or fiche at your local LDS Family History Centre – find out where the nearest one is from their website (and you don’t have to become a Mormon, lol, just be respectful – they won’t even try to convert you!). You can also download their family history program Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for free. http://www.familysearch.org

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1408347

Before 1837, the only records of the main life events of our Ancestors will be found in the parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial. Churches still keep these registers but usually deposit the old ones for safekeeping with the County Record Office where they can be searched on microfilm/fiche. These two free sites are in process of putting parish registers online:- http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ and www.freereg.org.uk

If you want an accurate Family Tree you will not rely on online Family Trees, many of which appear to have been submitted by ‘name-collectors’ who do not care how tenuous the links are as long as they end up with a family tree that goes back to Adam and Eve. However, it is worth looking for clues in the trees on Ancestry.com and the WorldConnect project at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ but verify anything you find online by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into Your Family Tree.

These are directories of genealogical resources with links to websites, some of which will be free:-

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

http://www.cyndislist.com/

www.worldgenweb.com
Genuki has a page for each county where you can locate the County Record Office where the parish records will be held, and other resources for that county.

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A Genealogical History of the Hunsicker Family $41.41 Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott Publication date: 1911 Subjects: Hunsicker family (Valentine Hunsicker, 17001771) Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to MillionBooks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. Author: Hunsicker, Henry A. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Publication Date: 2010/01/04 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.65 inches

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1679 Works: Hellier Stradivarius $37.91 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy . It derives its name from the Hellier family, who might well have bought it directly from the luthier himself.The Hellier Stradivarius has had a convoluted ownership history. It seems to have been in the posses

1679 Works: Hellier Stradivarius $37.91 Used – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy . It derives its name from the Hellier family, who might well have bought it directly from the luthier himself.The Hellier Stradivarius has had a convoluted ownership history. It seems to have been in the posse

1679 Works: Hellier Stradivarius $18.25 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hellier Stradivarius of circa 1679 is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy . It derives its name from the Hellier family, who might well have bought it directly from the luthier himself.The Hellier Stradivarius has had a convoluted ownership history. It seems to have been in the posses

1680s Architecture $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nunnington Hall, Ephraim Hawley House, Drottningholm Palace, Novodevichy Convent, Château de Marly, Ragley Hall, Château D’issy, St Chad’s Chapel, Tushingham, Chichester’s Inn, Bevier House Museum, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Pierce House (Dorchester, Massachusetts), San Samuele, Venice, St. John the Baptist Church, Yaroslavl, San Frediano in Cestello, Deacon John Graves House, King’s House, Winchester, 1680s in Architecture, Château Villette. Excerpt: Buildings Births Deaths A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at end{sloppypar The Bevier House Museum , referred to simply as the Bevier House prior to its conversion from a private residence, is located in Marbletown , near Kingston, New York . The house is also the home of the Ulster County Historical Society and is currently open to the public as a museum .Bevier House is believed to have been constructed around 1680 by Andries Pieterse Van Leuvan. The original part of the house, currently the kitchen, was designed in the Dutch style and was probably a one-room, one-story structure. In 1715 the house was bought by Louis Bevier, son of the New Paltz patentee, who expanded the structure and operated it as part of a large farm. The house was donated to the Historical Society in 1938 after being used by seven generations of the Bevier Family between 1715 and 1939, during which it was expanded to the two-story building currently standing. The museum displays a series of additions and renovations that explain its history and provide context for the artifacts donated by the family and numerous others. The museum’s collection includes farm implements , home furnishings and decor, and an array of American Civil War memorabilia relating directly to Ulster County . It also includes the earliest-known land

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1766 Disestablishments $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Saamoothirippd or Saamoothiri (Malayalam: ), anglicised Zamorin or Samorin, is the title used by the Eradi (Nair) rulers of the erstwhile state of Kozhikode (anglicised Calicut) (Nediyirippu Swarpam), located in the present day state of Kerala, India. They ruled between the 14th and 18th century AD and were the most powerful kings of kerala during the middle age. Mnavikraman Raja, the Saamoothiri of Kozhikode is famous for being the ruler who received the Portuguese trader and navigator Vasco da Gama on May 18, 1498. The Saamoothiri originally were Eradis (rulers of Eranad)as per legend two Eradi (a higher subdivision of Nairs) brothers known as Manikkan and Vikraman establish this ruling family. Eranad was a small fiefdom which was one of the four states (Eranad, Kolathunadu, Perumpadapu and Venad) that made up the Chera Empire. It is said that in the 14th century, the Saamoothiris killed Porlathiri the ruler of Polanad by treachery, and annexed that state. They moved their capital to present day Kozhikode (which was a part of Polanad) and named it Thrivikramapuram. All of this may have been precipitated by the great flood of the Periyar river in about 1341AD. This flood resulted in the silting of the harbour of Kodungallur (anglicised as Cranganore), a town known to be frequented by Arab and Roman and Chinese traders (Refer Indian Ancient Maritime History). The silting led to the rise in prosperity of other ports like Kochi (also known as Cochin), and Kozhikode. The Zamorin assumed the title of Samudrthiri (meaning “one who has the sea for his border”) and continued to rule from Kozhikode. The title Samudrthiri was shortened to Smoothiri over time in common usage. The present Saamoothiri is Kunhikuttan Raja of Thriukunna Kovilakam. After … More:

1767 in Europe: 1767 in Denmark, 1767 in England, 1767 in Great Britain, 1767 in Lithuania, 1767 in Norway, Repnin Sejm $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Events Arts and literature Births Deaths References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Repnin Sejm (Polish : Sejm Repninowski ) was a Sejm (session of the Polish parliament ) that took place between 1767 and 1768 in Warsaw , Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . This session followed the Sejms of 1764 to 1766, where the newly elected king of Poland, Stanislaw II Poniatowski , attempted with some successes to push through reforms to strengthen the government of the Commonwealth. These reforms were viewed as dangerous by Poland’s neighbors, who preferred a weak Commonwealth and did not want to see it threaten their own political and military aspirations.History The Russian Empire ‘s Minister to Warsaw, ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin (for whom the Sejm was named) received orders from Russian Empress Catherine the Great to bribe and coerce the Sejm deputies in order to push legislation favourable to Russia, in effect “a carefully drafted plan for destroying the republic” . At that time Poland had a population of about 11,5 millions, out of which about 1 million were religious dissidents . In his preparations Repnin fostered unrest among the religious minorities (Protestants (mostly in Royal Prussia and Greater Poland ) and Eastern Orthodox (mostly in Grand Duchy of Lithuania )), who wanted to have equal rights with the Roman Catholics .Repnin was well aware that a Catholic nobility dominated Sejm would be strongly opposed to such demands. He also calculated that such a demand itself would make the szlachta suspicious of all reform, including the recent reforms of king Stanisaw August Poniatowski and his supporters from the magnate Czartoryski family, were already rather unpopular, as being innovators under foreign influence. Repnin calculations were

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