If the marriage data is on microfiche or CD that would be helpful. That's a project I would be willing to coordinate. I assume I can get some help from others on the Broadhurst site, and the people on the Leocestershire site are incredibly helpful with local resources about Ashby DLZ. Since I am not fully retired yet, and I just got asked to do a special project as consultant to my company (a university owned insurance company), it will be a few weeks before I get this organized. But, as they say, all in good time.... Art Broadhurst, Vero Beach, FL Neil Broadhurst <[email protected]> on 09/21/98 10:14:06 PM To: Art Broadhurst/HQ/UIMC cc: Subject: Re: file Art: What needs to be done with those Ashby-de-la-Zouch Broadhursts is to run all the marriages for the folks and attempt to bring them down to the turn of the century of further. The 1881 census of England has been transcribed and indexed by the LDS and will soon be out on CD which will make searching a whole lot easier. I suspect though that a number of them left the country in the 1860's and 1870's for Canada, the US and Australia, New Zealand. Australia will be fairly easy to check because the vital records for many of the Australian states are now available on CD and some of them online. The 1880 US census will be released on CD later this year by the LDS. And they have extracted the 1881 Canadian census so once that is released it will be quite easy to find those folks that were in Ashby in the 1851 census and fit them altogether. If you want to co-ordinate that project, it would be wonderful. Neil >I was finally able to open the file you sent. A friend who knows computers >pretty well performed some mysterious stuff on my old backup files and >figured out how to make it work. The instructions in the FTM manual for >how to do it are not correct, but it's ok now and very helpful. Thanks >again. > >I have gotten birth certificates on a few key people, including James >Broadhurst and his wife, Mary Ann Tracey, and have the census information >for 1841 and 1851 that show what I needed to confirm the connections and >family, cousin! > >Art Broadhurst, Vero Beach, Florida