Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 1)

[Romilly]

Well I can't put any (Paternal side) Tree onto paper, - because I still can't find my Wilson Grandfather:-(((

It's very downheartening.

Romilly.

[sustev]

Rosie - I just write down the site I got them from - Anc*y or FindMyPast or FreeR. It's then just a question of typing names into a box and hey presto there they are! I think proper genealogists would frown on that though. Should I be more professional?

I write down references - just so that I can find them on any website in the future!

With census records, that's Class, Piece No., Folio, (Book if it's the 1841 census), and Page no.

Yes thank you. That's the way it should be done but isn't it easier to just type in the info into the boxes? That way you usually get referred to other linking censuses and bmds. In other words, do we still really need the references?

[rosie99]

Easier for who        

Using the reference is more accurate and universal.  I sometimes wish that when people post on here that they have Joe Bloggs living in London they would post the reference as it often takes a while to find who they are referring to. 

It is however up to each of us to do as we like with our trees and not do as others think we ought to. 

[sustev]

Hmm. I get your point but I don't think there is much opportunity for using the references when inputting details into searches on Ancestry or FindMyPast is there? I mean where are the boxes? They may be there but they're not obvious to me.

[sustev]

I used to know where they were on Ancestry on the old search but I haven't found them since it was changed.

[rosie99]

1841 Ancestry - it is there on the other years too
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8978

1841 FindMyPast -also on other years
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/1841-england-wales-and-scotland-census

[sustev]

Ah thank you. I wondered where they were.

[purplekat]

Rosie - I just write down the site I got them from - Anc*y or FindMyPast or FreeR. It's then just a question of typing names into a box and hey presto there they are! I think proper genealogists would frown on that though. Should I be more professional?

I do the same as you sustev, hoping this course will make me more organised 

[sustev]

Yes purplekat. I'm too eager to write down my findings. Hopefully this course should sort me out!!