Subj : Re: English/American One-Name Studies, 1500-1700 To : All From : P J Evans Date : Wed Sep 05 2018 04:10 pm From: P J Evans On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 3:13:40 AM UTC-7, Ian Goddard wrote: > On 30/08/18 19:30, marcpgifford234567@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi im a Gifford living near a place in doncaster that a john gifford ow= ned. Its called hooton pagnall hall. They owned it for around 40 years appa= rently. They were catholics and are buried in saint marys and st chad in br= ewood 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 w= as called william. But i cant find a name for his father. I have my great g= reat grandmas name and she was called mary ggifford. Hope this info is a he= lp. > > > > 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 I don't know about non-US users, but FamilySearch, while still free, now re= quires that you sign up for an account. (I have yet to do so, because some = of the information they want is past my personal-information release limit.= ) --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .