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You are very welcome! I may not be a professional but I love a good challenge and genealogy is surely that!
I really believe that tracing ones family is very much like putting together a jigsaw...
I have Breedens who migrated from Virginia. Tenn. was once considered far west in Virginia. Who are the Breedens in Tenn your looking for.
Please contact me
Hello Fanning, My best suggestion would be to contact a Professional Genealogist in your area that will be willing to give you some pointers on the actual process.
Tries family search. He is only in one census and it is as as adult with wife and kids. There is no birth cert and no one knows who his parents were. Also there is some belief that he hated his...
Thanks to all for your answers! I am extremely organized-my family is driven crazy by it. I am a stay at home mom right now so it would be a perfect time to get into it. I can gradually build up to...
Start with his father and gather as much information that he does know. He will then know where are the gaps. Your husbands birth certificate should give a full name and occupation of his father...
Hi Fanning. I live in Birmingham, Al. and a small private college here (Samford University)offers a nationally recognized program. Many people register--summer after summer--to get their...
Thank you! I always feel grateful for the help of others and this is a extremely helpful article. I'm very glad that you put it in.
Hi Fanning,
Firstly . Are you a well-organised person. I think you would need to be very well organised to do this professionally.
Are you in the UK? If so there are various courses on offer that...
Hi Scott,
I took your advice and have been going through subsequent censuses and believe I have found Levin Townsend, but not his father Lazarus, in the 1800 and the 1810.
This is actually...
Alfred Rakataha Clayton was my mums father. Her name is Deborah Ettie Daniels.
Thanks very much.Yes i know a fair bit of their life in NZ,but cant realy find anything of his background,parents ect in England,so hence the journal to see what come out.
Hi Gaveeno,
The NZ PO Directory 1890 has a reference to a number of Ardens.
Arden Charles Gibbon street, Sydenham
Arden Hamar,artist,Conrtenay et.New Plymouth
Ardern G. bricklayer, Franklin...
Hi Chris, I am a descendant of Catherine Mary Cantwell (Dorothea's sister and 3rd child). I have some info that Mary Cantwell (nee Egan) died in Tipperary, Ireland in 1844. Therefore Philip must...
You are correct in that Rheinhold and Reginald are the same person, the registrar seems to have had problems either with the name or the transcription as it seemed blotted. He was born 6th November...
both mum and dad r from newzealand iv just found out my dad was born in 1953
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William G had sister Louise (Weezie) b 1919-d 1990s? not sure
Louise m Walter Ivers (d 1953-4?) daughter living (b 1943-4)
Louise m Rev Harold Towne (1956) no children
My brother was married to...
Hi Fanning.
what's your goal in becoming a professional?
You'd like to be a certified expert? You want to make a living/business out of it?
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