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    Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

    Posted by alrightchummy on 23/6/2026, 18:26:43

    I'd like to go back further than just knowing where me mum and dad came from!

      Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

      Posted by HH on 23/6/2026, 18:33:09, in reply to "Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

      Yeah, I've used Ancestry before, although I suspect the other sites are fairly similar.

      If you pay for the annual membership rather than the monthly option, you get access to a lot more records.

      It's really interesting, although I found tracing my family beyond about 1750 became much more difficult.

      It also depends on your surname and how unique it is. My partner has Welsh heritage and tracing a family called Williams in Wales was nearly impossible. In some cases, both sides of the family were Williams so I gave up quite soon.

        Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

        Posted by alrightchummy on 24/6/2026, 22:54:47, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

        My fathers name is Connolly. I don't know where in Ireland he was born or if he moved directly to Luton
        from Ireland. All I know about his parents is they were somewhere in County Tyrone. My mother doesn't know where her mum was born. She told me her mum was adopted. She doesn't know where her dad was born!!
        My mothers maiden name is quite rare.
        Think i'm going to need a lot of luck with Connolly!

          Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

          Posted by Barton Hatter on 23/6/2026, 20:09:37, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

          When using Ancestry or similar, and looking at information that other people have put onto their pages, be VERY careful about what you accept as fact. I have come across all sorts of utter nonsense that people have put on their pages, women having kids at age 3 for example, others being older than their parents for another one, that have just not been checked. Then others come along and just copy it for their pages, and so on and so on. As HH infers, common names, and even uncommon names are often sources of massive confusion and lead people up the wrong lines.

          If possible you would be better off looking up source data. Most counties have record offices and online sites where things like census reports, parish records etc are available. My dad's side were all Cornish, and by using the Cornwall OPC site I traced his family back to around 1500, which is just about as far as can be done unless earlier ancestors were recorded for individual personal reasons.

          Best of luck.

            Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

            Posted by alrightchummy on 24/6/2026, 22:59:37, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

            Thumbs up
            Will take note of all of that!!

              Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

              Posted by Suffolk Punch on 24/6/2026, 10:46:00, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

              As an Ancestry subscriber of more than 20 years, I'd agree with just about everything said above, especially checking the information that comes up. So many people copy others' mistakes. I was fortunate in tracing my maternal grandmother's line - she was a Smith - because they were country folk who didn't move about very much till late Victorian times. Public records offices are an invaluable source of information, and also original documents. I can't describe the shiver I felt when I was able to hold an indenture document dated 1676 in which my Gt x 6 grandfather, who was a cordwainer, gave an apprentceship to "Thos. Clarke, a poor child of the town of fframlingham in the county of Sufk." To hold a document over 300 years old that had been held and signed by a direct ancestor was a special moment.

              I also managed to discover that Farhat, who has my mother's maiden name, and I are 3rd cousins - this being a few years after we met in the Brickies after the York play off final.

              But do be warned - genealogy is a time consuming pursuit, and can become very addictive, especially if you find an ancestor who was a "somebody", because then you'll be able to find all kinds of historical sites listing the gentry, who kept records from long before parish records became mandatory in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. I discovered I was a descendant of Sir Rafe Sadler, who was Thomas Cromwell's bagman and later secretary to Henry VIII, also the wealthiest commoner in England at one time. Through the marriage of his eldest son I was able to trace lines back to Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great.

              Everybody talks...
              Some hear...
              A few listen...
              Almost nobody understands...

                Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

                Posted by Somersetian on 24/6/2026, 12:54:58, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"

                I’ve used ancestry.com and gone back several generations on my dads side - his parents came from Cork which in itself wasn’t a problem as record exist on there. The really good thing about my search was discovering a tree completed by a 2nd cousin I didn’t know as well has hearing his anecdotal evidence about grandparents and their siblings.

                If you have the time and perseverance it’s well
                worth doing

                  Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?

                  Posted by J in C on 24/6/2026, 18:04:45, in reply to "Re: Anyone used/recommend one of those Ansestry sites?"
                  WUM Extraordinaire

                  An Irish page took my family back generations .

                  A hobby I believe but it was impressive

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