Genealogy Chat

Tina, I have a Word Document for each individual family, that reads like a story, where they lived, what they were doing, names and birth dates for each child through each of the census, it's great to read and you just update it with any extra information you get.

Hi Tina I've just tried the Search facility on Legacy and that certainly allows you to find individual words in notes.

What a very good question! For my one name study, I have a parish map, with colours to indicate when a family were in a parish, to give an idea of how they moved, but that's just for one family. For my friend's tree, because I'm bad at remembering names, I have a spreadsheet with a line for each event (census, marriage, witness etc) but that would be like reinventing the wheel. Using FIND in my version of Legacy picks up bmd places, but not censuses.

I don't know Legacy. We use Generations and have a place to add notes on each person's details. If we click on ...Notes....a dropdown box gives us the choice of Address in... Health Military Misc. notes Research We can search on FIND for these notes, even when they are hidden from view. Gwyn

Looby I like the maps idea - need to redecorate the study anyway! Do you use modern maps, or do you look for old ones and download them? Annie Yes, I always have a look at neighbours. You can do it on any census on Ancestry by using the 'next' and 'previous' buttons to move from sheet to sheet of the census. But I am trying to avoid having to do this when I know in the back of my mind that somebody at sometime on my tree lived in this same road! Tina

1881 census has a very useful feature view neighbours which lets you look round the village.

Tina I have various maps of the areas my family came from and mark on them where people lived with a key down the side - I have them for various counties and for central london and it seems to work for me - have them pinned up all over the study to keep track of them though LOLOLOL Looby

Does anyone have a simple (you are dealing with a bear of very little brain here) way of keeping track of where people lived at various times, so that you can easily look and see if any other relatives who you find, lived nearby? I keep my off-line tree in Legacy (which I really like), but although it has a 'slot' to put in an address, this seems to be designed for living people (asks for post-codes and telephone numbers etc), and seems to only take one address. Today I found someone living in Watery Lane in Tipton in 1851. I know that somewhere sometime I have found someone else living in Watery Lane, but I can't remember who or when. I have looked all through Watery Lane for 1851 but there is no-one else I know on that census. There are over 100 households in Watery Lane - it was a long job to go through them all. I can't cope with doing this for another 5 censuses! I have an awful lot of people in my tree living in Tipton - and they are not necessarily related to each other - yet! So, how do other people deal with this problem? Tina