Family tree

[bestdriver]

Are there any good sites to try and check my family history? Countries included are Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Thanks

[dothawkes31]

Do you mean you would like to check if your family history has already been researched by someone else? you might try genesreunuted for that. If you mean you are interested in researching your ancestry yourself and know that you have ancestors from those countries, you need to know when your family may have lived there, as this will dictate which particular records were being used and which records your ancestors would have been included in.
to start with, you can go to familysearch.org and ancrstry.co.uk which cover worldwide. It would be hit and miss though unless you had narrowed down your search criteria

[bestdriver]

Thanks dothawkes31. I know my grandfather emigrated in 1923 to Winnipeg in Manitoba. but that is all our families know, here in the UK.

[dothawkes31]

oh right, Canadian Civil registration of births deaths and marriages is not controlled by a central authority like our in the UK,

From the state archive: Manitoba, Vital Statistics
[http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/index.html],
Manitoba Family Services holds birth, marriage and death records from 1882, together with some incomplete church records prior to that date (searched when the denomination is known). Some databases are available on their Web site.

Vital Statistics
Manitoba Family Services
254 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
R3C 0B6

I assume you would need to locate your grandfathers inclusion in maybe the marriage or death records?

[dothawkes31]

http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/index.html

[craft1948]

if you tell us his name, date of birth, and place of birth I will look on ancestry and see if anyone on there has him in their tree.

[bestdriver]

Thanks dothawkes and craft. The information that I have at this moment only is his name. Joseph Quirk.Amd he went over there around about 1923. He was born in 1898 but we don't have a birth certificate or any thing else to help at this moment.Thanks for your help and here's hoping you can maybe get some more info...craft

[bestdriver]

Another bit of information that I got is that his surname maybe is spelled with an E at the end. QuirkE as is it the Irish way of spelling it... dothawkes I tried that site that you gave me but I am not getting any success with it at the moment. Thanks for all your help dothawkes and craft.