Any family tree experts?

davids said:
Found the Irish side of the family the most difficult to trace. My grandfather's sister either died at one year old in Limerick or in her sixties in Ballymena.
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An awful lot of records were destroyed in the war of independence and civil war, but conversely the civil war pensions and IRA records from the same time are pretty useful.

The census records are patchy, really until the foundation of free state after the war of independence.

Finding older records can be hard, unless the family were Church of Ireland, who kept good records of marriages and baptism.
 

dublinbluenose said:
An awful lot of records were destroyed in the war of independence and civil war, but conversely the civil war pensions and IRA records from the same time are pretty useful.

The census records are patchy, really until the foundation of free state after the war of independence.

Finding older records can be hard, unless the family were Church of Ireland, who kept good records of marriages and baptism.
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Birth and death certificates in the late 18 hundreds are very patchy,and the church records I did find in Limerick look as if they were first stored on microfilm and then digitalised, virtually unreadable.
 
PhilM said:
Let me get back to you because I have a family member who is into this, and she actually volunteered at the registry office for a while.

There's a group of them who would look stuff up for you as a hobby, but I ain't sure if they're still doing it.
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That'd be a great help thanks.
 
BainesontoastNEW said:
This.

I still can't trace my Mum's side because they're Russian. In Soviet Russia, haystack needles you!
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misremembered this as a simpsons.
 
davids said:
My brother has done well with one branch of the family tracing the back to the early 16 hundreds. But my maternal grandmother's line isn't getting results. Any tips gratefully received.
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Maybe look into Ancestry DNA. They've got an offer on at the moment, think it's like £30.
 

My wife did all our families when Ancestry .com first came out many years ago my kids purchased it for her she spent months - very interesting , but she back then had to put the hours in ... one of my London cousins paid a firm - no difference in fact not as conclusive ....
 
davids said:
Found that problem with my Great Grandfather's name, spelling was three different ways on his military records.
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On the military front - the first world war in particular under aged soldiers most often gave a slightly adjusted surname, not to get checked on - My Grandad was one of them - hitched a lift from Vauxhall Road Liverpool then on horses & carts to join The Royal Lancashire Fusiliers - he made it through the war as a private, & came back with a very bad chest with all the gas etc - became a postman - he passed the medals to my father who then passed them on to the eldest son my older brother - that seemed to be the tradition back then ....

It helped to locate his war records etc ....
 

It's a fascinating subject.
My older sister died last year and I was left a pile of various family papers (Birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates etc)
So much information that I was unaware of.
I don't have any memory of my paternal Grandad as he died in 1955, when I was 1 yr old.
I was fascinated to see that he was 48 when he got married in 1919 and my Grandma was 30. That's nothing too unusual in itself . . . but my Dad was one of 9 children. (all are dead now)
I knew them all, apart from 2 of his Sisters who died young. One died of diphtherea age 5 and the other was knocked over and killed in a road traffic accident on her 8th Birthday.
I now have her Birth Certificate and therefore knew exactly when she died. With that information I was able to check the local newspaper archives and find reports of the inquest.
 
Joey66 said:
On the military front - the first world war in particular under aged soldiers most often gave a slightly adjusted surname, not to get checked on - My Grandad was one of them - hitched a lift from Vauxhall Road Liverpool then on horses & carts to join The Royal Lancashire Fusiliers - he made it through the war as a private, & came back with a very bad chest with all the gas etc - became a postman - he passed the medals to my father who then passed them on to the eldest son my older brother - that seemed to be the tradition back then ....

It helped to locate his war records etc ....
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I found a good bit about my maternal grandfather he was in the Scots Guards in the Boer War and the begining of WW1 but was injured and ended up being the RSM in the Docks Regiment. All I can find about his father is his regiment and service number. He was stationed in Ireland where he married my Great Grandmother then was stationed in India where my Grandfather was born.
 
davids said:
I found a good bit about my maternal grandfather he was in the Scots Guards in the Boer War and the begining of WW1 but was injured and ended up being the RSM in the Docks Regiment. All I can find about his father is his regiment and service number. He was stationed in Ireland where he married my Great Grandmother then was stationed in India where my Grandfather was born.
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You can pay & write to the war office to fill in any blanks - google their relevant address online
 

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