Doing a family tree?

[poodicat]

Dont know if i am in the right section,have found out my nans maiden name,also my great grandfathers name can anyone suggest a easy to use site tia

[poodicat]

Thanks zac

[dothawkes31]

you can subscribe to ancestry for £10.95 a month, or use the free membership on the computers at your local library, you may need to check the 1911 census for your great grandfather and your nan, you can use pay as you go credits at the 1911census.co.uk site. do you have sufficient info to search for them easily, like names, ages, locations? also depends on how common a name it was, look at my article under the articles tab in this section poodi.

[dothawkes31]

sorry it's in family:
http://www.theanswerb...amily-history-part-1/

[saxy_jag]

Ancestry is a decent site, and their records are growing all the time. You can also search other members' family trees and see if there's a link to yours. My son and I have managed to trace one line of the family back to 1460 through this facility. You may actually find that your library has an subscription - ours does. Speak to the local/family studies librarian and ask them what they have there.

[john1066]

In our local library, if you have a 'library card' you can get the info' you need free....Try it! Maybe it's just our area,I don't know...It's worth a try...

[dothawkes31]

Yes all libraries have the ancestry.co.uk library edition subscription, the omly problem is sometimes there are limited time slots as the computers for the public get booked up.

[poodicat]

Thanks guys have a library card will ask,my greatgrandfather was born in 1848

[dothawkes31]

what was his name poodi? where was he from?

[poodicat]

Richard Murray aged 60 when he died and is buried in boyndie chuchyard near banff dont know where he was born,but lived in whitehills Have the house number and street

[dothawkes31]

was he Richard John Philip Murray son of james Murray and Bathia henry?

[poodicat]

Dont know dot but my grandfather was called george sounds promising

[dothawkes31]

Oh right, was he George Murray then? or did he have a middle name?

[poodicat]

Dot my granfather was called George Murray dont know if he had any middle names,found a card with in loving memory of our dear father Richard Murray,his father i presume died november 3rd 1908 7 reidhaven street whitehills interred in boyndie churchyard

[heathfield]

A warning...Watch out if you take out a subscription with Ancestry - they'll keep on debiting you automatically every month unless you unsubscribe.

[Old_Geezer]

Well isn't that as expected ? You join something, you pay the regular sub until you cease to be a member ? I went with them simply because it was a known regular fee. I shied away from these that charged per search/view. Wasn't convinced I'd not be running up a larger fee that I intended. Especiially when doing speculative searches over decades, for someone you end up not finding anyway. (That said, I'm sure someone will now say they went with a charge per view supplier and it worked out better for them.)

[dothawkes31]

hi Poodi
George was born about 1874 in Fordyce, banff, his mother was Jane was born there too. he had a sister Jesse 2 years older than him, his father Richard was a Cattleman and George was a horseman, as in the 1901 census for banff. In 1891 the older children James and bathia were at home, jane was 16 and bathia was 12, which does tend to suggest the one i found yesterday son of James Murray and Bathia Henry is your great grandfather Richard.