Subj : Re: English/American One-Name Studies, 1500-1700 To : All From : Ian Goddard Date : Thu Sep 06 2018 06:14 am From: Ian Goddard On 30/08/18 19:30, marcpgifford234567@gmail.com wrote: > Hi im a Gifford living near a place in doncaster that a john gifford owned. Its called hooton pagnall hall. They owned it for around 40 years apparently. They were catholics and are buried in saint marys and st chad in brewood England. I have been trying to trace back my ancestors to see if they are of the same line as my family have always lived in the same area which is a 10 minute walk from hooton pagnall hall. Also my great grandfather was called william. But i cant find a name for his father. I have my great great grandmas name and she was called mary ggifford. Hope this info is a help. > > Marc Gifford > 1. As this message came from Google Groups I'm assuming a minimum of newsgroup knowledge and replying both to group and direct to the poster. In general you should look to the group for replies. Also, most people using newsgroups use a proper Usenet service - Google Groups in this respect is the rather sad remnant of a Usenet archive. The soc.genealogy.britain FAQ at http://www.genealogy-britain.org.uk/ should be helpful. 2. You don't say at what date the Giffords owned Hooton Pagnall Hall so without doing our own research we've no idea whether it was medieval or not. If it wasn't medieval soc.genealogy.britain would be more appropriate. In any case genealogy works backwards from the present and that would certainly belong in s.g.b. rather than s.g.m. although it seems to be overrun with spam these days. 3. In general newsgroups don't offer a general finding service for genealogists except for particularly challenging problems. As you seem to be starting out your best first step would be to buy a good beginners' book on British/English genealogy - there's a good variety to choose from and also look at what your local family history society can offer: https://doncasterfhs.co.uk/ 4. Basically up to 1837 you work with Civil Registration certificates for births, marriages and deaths (BMD). A useful search site for those is https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl which enables you to click through to the General Register Office to buy certificates. (Hint: always buy them from the GRO - buying through other agencies costs more). Before 1837 you need to rely on parish registers for baptisms, marriages and burials. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/HootonPagnell tells you who holds the originals of these - Donny archives which is handy for you! Also, from 1841 there are census records which complement and cross-check on the BMD data. familysearch.org is a general free genealogical search site (I assume that as you're a Yorkshireman you have the same aversion as myself to spending cash) but the subscription sites Ancestry and FindMyPast contain more original document images; your local library may well have a subscription for one of these you can use. 5. As you're asking a lot of people to read what you write, rather than imposing on them the extra effort of reading, please take the extra effort in writing and use capital letters where appropriate. That puts the effort on one person, you, instead of on the many which is more efficient and likely to produce more replies. Ian --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .