Hi all...
This isn't so much a query, as a general 'how do they do it!?'
With some work, I've managed to get most of my lines back to pre-1837 but for the pre-registration years I am finding it soooooo hard without certificates. It feels wrong somehow. I love my little (ok, massive ) folder of certificates and the sense of validation they give my research. For the step I am now at, all I have is the odd print out from the LDS site. I feel like I'm 'guessing' - does anyone else feel like that or is it just me being stupid?
I've read the FTF guide to research, and getting started etc but I'm still finding it really hard and so far, even for the ancestors I have been able to trace all I have is a name and date of baptism or marriage and the name of the parish.
How do so many genealogists have such full trees, with information and stories and going back hundreds of years? Where does it all come from?
Thank you for reading,
Rachel
Stressed in the South West
This isn't so much a query, as a general 'how do they do it!?'
With some work, I've managed to get most of my lines back to pre-1837 but for the pre-registration years I am finding it soooooo hard without certificates. It feels wrong somehow. I love my little (ok, massive ) folder of certificates and the sense of validation they give my research. For the step I am now at, all I have is the odd print out from the LDS site. I feel like I'm 'guessing' - does anyone else feel like that or is it just me being stupid?
I've read the FTF guide to research, and getting started etc but I'm still finding it really hard and so far, even for the ancestors I have been able to trace all I have is a name and date of baptism or marriage and the name of the parish.
How do so many genealogists have such full trees, with information and stories and going back hundreds of years? Where does it all come from?
Thank you for reading,
Rachel
Stressed in the South West
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