My name of interest is Brewerton which is relatively unusual.
A few years ago I decided to collect the names for a small study and contacted people on GR who had this name in their tree.
Some were very generous and sent me their tree. The info that I gained I have put into areas and crossfiled to name of person submitting.
However I am a useless collater of info and could do better.
I have not looked at it for a year but have decided to have another go.
Trying a different approach I have gone into the LDS site and noted all births/ christenings between the 15 and end of the 16th C.
I have done my best to get rid of the repeats and born abouts and with the help of computer literate daughter have put the info on excel which is great since I can break it into place, date of birth etc.
Obviously this is not statically reliable but gives some sort of indication regarding where the name started.
I plan to do the same for the 17th C.
I would be very interested to see how others have gathered info for their study and how they collate it.
many thanks
A few years ago I decided to collect the names for a small study and contacted people on GR who had this name in their tree.
Some were very generous and sent me their tree. The info that I gained I have put into areas and crossfiled to name of person submitting.
However I am a useless collater of info and could do better.
I have not looked at it for a year but have decided to have another go.
Trying a different approach I have gone into the LDS site and noted all births/ christenings between the 15 and end of the 16th C.
I have done my best to get rid of the repeats and born abouts and with the help of computer literate daughter have put the info on excel which is great since I can break it into place, date of birth etc.
Obviously this is not statically reliable but gives some sort of indication regarding where the name started.
I plan to do the same for the 17th C.
I would be very interested to see how others have gathered info for their study and how they collate it.
many thanks
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