Family History and our Philippines connections.

[subseastu]

In our family at the turn of the last century there was a kinghthood in the family!! Unfortunatley it wasn't hereditary

I am interested in finding out about our past though. I notice that it's advertised a lot on tv at the mo, what service / programme do you use mick?

[JimOttley]

In our family at the turn of the last century there was a kinghthood in the family!! Unfortunatley it wasn't hereditary

C'mon Stu not hereditary?

How many times have you been called Sir Stu in the Phils, we all have knighthoods over there

[mickcant]

In our family at the turn of the last century there was a kinghthood in the family!! Unfortunatley it wasn't hereditary

I am interested in finding out about our past though. I notice that it's advertised a lot on tv at the mo, what service / programme do you use mick?

Hi,
Do you mean from programmes like “Who do you think you are” which are interesting programmes but in real life you have to work a lot harder to find information, these turn up at record offices and other places and someone has already got the information out for them.

If you are keen it would pay to find a local society, they often have open nights and all welcome new members.
When I joined our local Isle of Wight one they put my contact information in one of the monthly members booklets with the names I was researching, I got several offers from members who were doing parts of the same lines.

Also go see as many older family members you can find, I went to see many I did not even know about until I started asking you get valuable information from them, but make sure you check it out as with all of us the memory distorts and though they will remember things the year they think it was can be way out.

Wedding photos are a real help, not just because of the bigger groups of family together but you can confirm the actual year from marriage records.

I have use paid for research sites but not much as our local IOW society has an excellent free to use sit for Birth Marriage and deaths.

As I said I use “Brothers Keeper” as my genealogy programme on my computer.
Most will let you import a “Gedcom” file if you find a relative that has already done some research.

If I think of anything else I will post again!
Mick.