SUMMERS Family in Fraserburgh

[Ann Baker]

James

Only one eway to prove it.Start from the one you have and work forward. However once you get to the point where the on line records stop will mean a trip to GROS - or ask someone who;s going to look up. I have managed to bring quite a bit of mine forward to try and find my dad's lost cousins.

It was hard slog cos they all had big families and I'll need to go back there one day to finish it off. But the good news is the further forward you come the easier it is to find the records!

So those folks in the phone book could well be connected! Would be great!

Ann

[Kin-getter]

James

Only one eway to prove it.Start from the one you have and work forward. However once you get to the point where the on line records stop will mean a trip to GROS - or ask someone who;s going to look up. I have managed to bring quite a bit of mine forward to try and find my dad's lost cousins.

It was hard slog cos they all had big families and I'll need to go back there one day to finish it off. But the good news is the further forward you come the easier it is to find the records!

So those folks in the phone book could well be connected! Would be great!

Ann

Ann,

Forwards? Backwards? I'm spinning around here - gobsmacked.

James.

[Ann Baker]

James

Backwards is the only way to go from a proven point to get ancestors but it is possible to bring stuff forward to find out if you have living relatives.

My dad had no idea who his cousins on his mother's family's side were just roughly whereabouts they lived so using my granny's birth certificate and a visit to GROS, I was able to find all her siblings (11 in all), then found their marriages and children. From that found the childrens' marriages and their children and found a whole bunch of living cousins.

I knew my granny was the eldest of 12 but because on line births only go up to 1906 on S People couldn't see the others cos they were all after that so had to go to GROS where I could.

Still got more to look for tho cos big family!

Ann

[Kin-getter]

Ann,

I sometimes think how hard it all is, what with naming patterns, poor spelling, lack of records etc etc - but its going to be much harder for researchers say in 20 or 30 years - cremations, fewer marriages, double barreled names et al.  Phew!  Am glad I'll be extinct by then

James.

[Ann Baker]

James

Ah but just think how much work you'll have saved them! You'll have done the hard bit cos you;re looking for information that isn't anywhere like as readily available as what we have nowadays.

They'll have it easy!

Ann

[Kin-getter]

James

Ah but just think how much work you'll have saved them! You'll have done the hard bit cos you;re looking for information that isn't anywhere like as readily available as what we have nowadays.

They'll have it easy!

Ann

Ann,

Do you really think so?  I'm not recording what I am doing now, only stuff from the past.
What led to this Summers thing was a rellie (who's 80+) recalling the name but not much else - not realising that there's a connection. 

You may be around that far forward - I certainly won't.

James.

[Ann Baker]

James

Both me and my husband started this because our duaghter asked us about her ancestors because of a project she was dong at school.

It kinda snowballed from there and am recording it all on FTM so when I disappear she has it and she has promised me she'll look after it! (We'll see). Told her would come back and haunt her if she doesn't!

Ann

[Kin-getter]

Ann,

I can't think of any more laudable or valid reason for doing it than that, except maybe as a kind of tribute to those who went before, for, are we not a part of them and they a part of us?

James.

[Ann Baker]

James

I absolutely agree. I have found it fascinating not just finding them but all the social history that went with them. Most of them had very hard lives indeed and lived in apalling conditions.

Is amazing how many survived - but just as well they did or we wouldn't be here.

My elder family members are really amazed at what I've found and tho it's brought the odd tear or two when they reminisce, they are so grateful to be finding out things they never knew.

I just wish had started it years ago when more of them were around to tell me things!

Ann