One of the benefits of being a member of the Guild of One Name Studies is the chance to participate in the Marriage Challenges.
This is when another member volunteers to look up marriages in parish registers for a particular registration district. This is usually in the UK but I have seen some international ones.
Every month I take a look at the list of upcoming challenges to see if there is a registration district where I may have some TILLIN/TILLING/TILLEN mariages. (I have registered TILLING and TILLEN as variants of my name with the Guild.
This week I found out that the one of the new challenges is in a registration district of Mitford so I headed off to my favourite free genealogy resource.
My Thrifty Thursday tip is to use the website FreeBMD.
This website has transcriptions of the Birth, Marriages and Deaths Indices for England and Wales. It was the first website I found when I started looking at my family history and it is an absolutely brilliant free resource. It is all transcribed by volunteers and after having a go at transcribing a few years ago I really appreciate the effort and work that has gone into it.
It's also worth pointing out that the same information is available on Ancestry.co.uk but I'm not sure if you have to have a subscription or not to see it.
Unfortunately, when I searched Mitford Registration District for TILLIN/TILLING/TILLEN marriages nothing came up so I won't be sending any entries for this challenge. Maybe next time...
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Thursday, 7 February 2013
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
TILLINs in the Births Index 1837-1915
I have been making a start on the data for my One Name Study.
I've now transcribed properly all the TILLINs in the birth indices from 1837 to 1915 (transcribed by FreeBMD but accessed via Ancestry.co.uk). I've also transcribed any TILLINGs and TILLENs if they appeared on the same page as I think they are common misspellings or possible derivatives. I will need to come back to this record set at some point to make sure I've transcribed all the people who have a mother with TILLIN as their maiden name.
It's been quite satisfying to realise that I already had records of most of them - maybe from a census - but it feels good to have a proper list.
The next record set I'm going to tackle is the Births Indices for 1916-2005. These will take longer due to the maiden names.
I am adding each record to my Family Historian tree and allocating a Custom ID to each individual so that I can hopefully tie up individuals over time. Do you have a Custom ID method? Where do you keep your records? How do you collect data from Record Sets?
I've now transcribed properly all the TILLINs in the birth indices from 1837 to 1915 (transcribed by FreeBMD but accessed via Ancestry.co.uk). I've also transcribed any TILLINGs and TILLENs if they appeared on the same page as I think they are common misspellings or possible derivatives. I will need to come back to this record set at some point to make sure I've transcribed all the people who have a mother with TILLIN as their maiden name.
It's been quite satisfying to realise that I already had records of most of them - maybe from a census - but it feels good to have a proper list.
The next record set I'm going to tackle is the Births Indices for 1916-2005. These will take longer due to the maiden names.
I am adding each record to my Family Historian tree and allocating a Custom ID to each individual so that I can hopefully tie up individuals over time. Do you have a Custom ID method? Where do you keep your records? How do you collect data from Record Sets?
Friday, 6 March 2009
Transcribing for FreeBMD
This week I've volunteered to transcribe for FreeBMD. FreeBMD is an ongoing project aiming to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.
I've found FreeBMD very useful in the past - especially for finding other halves of marriages and for births where the maiden name of the mother is part of the index.
I've downloaded all the relevant software and just uploaded my first page. Already I'm starting to get quicker while remaining accurate - hopefully!!
So far so good - I'll update on any interesting names that I find along the way.
I've found FreeBMD very useful in the past - especially for finding other halves of marriages and for births where the maiden name of the mother is part of the index.
I've downloaded all the relevant software and just uploaded my first page. Already I'm starting to get quicker while remaining accurate - hopefully!!
So far so good - I'll update on any interesting names that I find along the way.
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