I tried this last year. Joined Ancestry for about £8 a month. This, among other things, gives you access to the birth/deaths registers and the 1800s census records which are the most useful. Something people don't realise, unless you've done this yourself, is that birth and death records can not been seen online. You can only see a record of a death that gives you the identity of the certificate that you then have to pay to get a copy of. Don't pay through the search service you are using, go direct to the government service, it is about half the cost per certificate. The search engines can be very frustrating and it is often very difficult to find the exact match for your ancestor so you can't always be confident when getting the certificate reference. Just hope you have very uncommon family names.
I also recommend you use a family tree tool to record all of your findings. It can get out of hand very quickly and a graphical presentation is a boon. I used MacFamilyTree.
Good luck in your searches. The only thing I found illuminating was the size of families and the infant mortalities.
I also recommend you use a family tree tool to record all of your findings. It can get out of hand very quickly and a graphical presentation is a boon. I used MacFamilyTree.
Good luck in your searches. The only thing I found illuminating was the size of families and the infant mortalities.
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