Tag: Best practice
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Family History Tools
I have been researching my family tree for a number of years now and I love filling in all the people, not just my direct ancestors. I was very lucky to be able to study for a Diploma of Family History online which has really helped. It is run by the University of Tasmania I…
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Colin Campbell a trilogy
The story so far … I have been looking for source documents to link these two families. Colin CAMPBELL (1) Colin CAMPBELL1 of Grove Street married Margaret MIDDLEMISS in Glasgow on 29 December 1916, he cited his father’s name as Peter CAMPBELL (deceased) and his mother’s name and maiden surname as Elizabeth DUNCAN. Colin CAMPBELL…
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The Saga of Colin Campbell
What happens if there is an error in an original source document? When Colin Campbell and Margaret Middlemiss married1, Colin’s father was listed as Peter Campbell and his mother was listed as Elizabeth Campbell M.S. Duncan. A descendant of his2 gave his mother’s maiden name as Anderson which raises two questions: First, I checked ScotlandsPeople for…
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Which Colin Campbell is which?
I love it when people contact me through one of my family tree sites and connect their family tree to mine. This happened a couple of weeks ago through FamilySearch. Jean appears to be my second cousin; her grandmother and my grandmother could be sisters. I say appears and could because I am yet to…
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The Saga of Clarissa Kidd
My children’s paternal great-grandmother, Clarissa Emma KIDD has been extremely difficult to trace. I found a website created for the descendants of Mr Thomas Henderson1 but it is sparsely referenced and not accurate. I also found two family trees with a Clarissa in Ancestry Library2 and again the information was sparsely referenced and less than…
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Finding a difficult ancestor
I have been slowly tracking down a particularly difficult ancestor called Margaret MORRISON. Firstly her name is unbelievably common in Scotland at the time she lived. Secondly, she never married and so I had no documents that listed her parents. She was the mother of my grandfather Edward WILCOX 1 who was illegitimate. I was…
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Getting Somewhere
This is week five of my family history course and I would be hard-pressed to tell you half of what I have learned. Pedigree charts and family charts are great for getting started as well as keeping up. This week it has been suggested to create a timeline for the person of interest. Wow and…
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Begin at the beginning
For a host of reasons I won’t bore you with, I have decided to throw my current family history research out (figuratively and not so figuratively ). And START AGAIN. The software I was using is now obsolete, and I have to use some legacy software to retrieve it. I have downloaded digital images of nearly…
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Another New Blog
A rhetorical question: Can one have too many blogs? For some years I have been amassing information about my family history. I have reached a critical mass – the amount of I formation I have is too great to be understood in a single, two-dimensional array. University of Tasmania to the rescue. I have enrolled…