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Help I'm Stuck with my Genealogical Research!

Standard Proceedure back to Mid 1837

Birth - Marriage - Birth - Marriage etc. Don't for get death Certs ages in index for 1866.

Also Census.

Should point you back to parish family living in before 1837.

1837 Back to 1538

Use Parish Registers of Baptism, Marriage and Burial

1538 to 1086

Court Rolls

Dombesday Book

Before 1086

Gets More difficult!

So we are all back ton 1086 or are we stuck

Who 1900s - Eastenders

1800s Idiosyncracies with reg system show overhead

1700s Latin, bad writing

1600s Civil War

1500s Poor Register survival rates an copying

1300s or 1400s Poor survival rates try Inquisition Post Mortem and Published Genealogies Also many Wills in PCC etc.

1086-1300 Peasants Revolt some Court Rolls Burn't very poor court roll survival rate. Black death rapid burial and scribes may die

Before 1086 There are a few saxon wills still in existance, Bede, Anglo Saxon Chronicles

But we are probably stuch in the 1800s, 1700s or 1600s

How I did it?

Don't forget:

1901 Census Index On Internet from 1 Jan 2002 With trial 1891 Norfolk?

1881 Census Index

1851 Census Index Published for many places

Scottish Records Via Internet, 1891 Census, 1881 Census, Births Marriages and Deaths

British Vital Records esp. late 1800s, Liverpool & Wigan St Catherines etc.

IGI Now on the internet

Memorial Inscriptions - publishedfor many places

#### DO NOT RELY ON INDEXES OTR TRANSCRIPTS ALWAYS CHECK THE ORIGINSALS ######

Guild of One Nasme Studies

Poor Law Records, Settlement, Removal Orders, Bastardy, Oversears of the poor accounts, Constables accounts, Highway accounts.

Churchwardens Accounts can go back before Parish Registers and can include payments for burials eg Prescot, Lancashire

Wills and Probate Records

Freemens Records of Towns

Court Records, Ecclesiastical Court Records Where indexed

Society of Genealogists esp Great Card Index esp pre 1837

Heraldic Visitations

Get organised

Family Tree Programs

Custodian and Cloos

Manual Systems eg that offered by Ramsbottom

Reconstruct the entire family as this will give information on your Ancestors.

Check for infant burials when looking for baptisms to rule out some baptisms.

Where possible check other coloborative evidence buy certificates when you can if you follow the wrong line it can be very expensive on time just to save £6.50 on a certificate. Try and prove each fact 3 times if possible.

Check your assumptions eg Birkenhead being read as Birkenhew but clearly Birkenhead after some practice and 10 years.

Be professional in your research ask yourself questipons and try and solve them. Think of ways of disproving as well as prooving your links record why you come to your conclusions.