Am I on the right track? Advice please

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Enoch was registered at birth as Lingard - Q4 1887, Louth - so Marshall would just have been a courtesy name he took.

You have now decided this George is definitely "yours" then?

Jay

[Kim Marshall]

He is starting to make alot more sense now the ages add up...i am not going to say 100% he is the right one but at the moment he is the most likely candidate.

I am going to the records office in Beverly as soon as I can physically get up there and just see what information can be sourced from the Electoral Rolls I am hoping they will give details of his time in Driffield.

[Kim Marshall]

Sorry i wrote a post with details of a george that died in ww1 then realised i was crazy

[dicole]

That's the best way to go Kim, follow up the family of the most likely candidate and see where it leads. You may find you come to a wrong place, and have to start over with another likely George, but you can safely ignore the first if he is wrong.

I have done that at least twice. And have had to wait for a long time for a more likely lead to appear in any records on-line.

But the satisfaction of a moment when you can say "bingo"or "eureka" I have the right family, is not to be missed. I was looking for my 4-g grandmother's baptism and when I found a possible and looked for the parents marriage and found the mothers maiden name, EUREKA I shouted, a whole load of family mysteries was solved.

Di

[Kim Marshall]

Thanks Di, I think that is where i got myself into a pickle before which is why he was on my list, then removed, readded, tossed away and readded and is now looking like a good candidate.
For some reason I just could not get my act together and it did not make sense and I could not find the logic.

But its 7.45am and I have already opened 3 ancestry pages and made lots of notes on paper just in case ancestry deletes everything I add again.

Thank you all.

[dicole]

I can remember when I first started out chasing my family tree, I would get up early, about 5.30am to have a quiet hour or so checking through the NSW BDM indexes online, before the kids got up and the day really got going.

Now I just wait until they have gone to school and have a quiet cuppa and hour with ancestry or one of the other sites I use.

Di

[Kim Marshall]

Thanks Di,

I have been given alot of information last couple of days and I am just trying to go through each piece of information I have been given on here, via email and from what the family members have said.
I have been told George died in 1973 by family and the one death that jumps out and bites me is the original death I found in 1973 in the Buckrose Registration District, i am sure I read somewhere it all changed in 1974 to Bridlington registration district but I will have to go back through my notes to double check.

I will obtain Birth Certificate 7a 644 and death certificate 2a 113.

I have gone through everything I possible can today and been through so many census forms and not found any leads from checks that lead me to believe its any other George. I have been through record upon record of different birth dates. I've concentrated on years from 1882-1888 birth.

I wont do the happy dance just yet, Im going to be cautious.

*HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MUMS OUT THERE FOR TOMORROW*May your day be filled with love and laughter