Hi: Let me add one further item to Paul’s excellent list. If you have traced the ancestors of interest to particular parishes in Devon check the relevant parish pages in GENUKI/Devon. Though lots of the thousands of publications on, for example the parish and its history, that are listed in many of these pages are accompanied by indexes or transcripts, many are not - but the publications may well be available to you in one of the Devon Libraries, or at Tree House. So take a list of any of these that are of interest to you along with you. Cheers Brian On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:45, Caren Wilcox <carenwilco@starpower.net<mailto:carenwilco@starpower.net>> wrote: Thanks for these suggestions. They will help me get ready to travel to Devon. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hockie [mailto:paul@hockie.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:34 AM To: devon@rootsweb.com<mailto:devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: [DEV] Re: Genealogy Travel to Devon Quite a lot has been said about travelling around Devon. I would like to add something about the importance of having a detailed research plan before leaving home. There is nothing quite like arriving at an archive only to be told everything is on Findmypast etc.. My approach has always been: 1. Create a detailed research list. Who, what and where? There are too many distractions if you do not focus your research 2. Check the National Archive Discovery catalogue and the local archive online catalogues and identify the documents you want to view. Search for both the ancestor and the place. I usually cut and paste into a word document so I can arrive with a "shopping list". The sites will also cover registration and ordering procedures. 3. Use Google to search for local museums and libraries. Email and ask what they hold. This may include documents and artefacts about your ancestor or just an insight into life in the town. 4. If you are looking for an ancestral home. * Find the ancestor on a census and then look at the pages before and after. By listing the farms, cottages etc. you can see the enumerators route * Google the name of the farms, tenements and cottages. Many still exist. * Buy a large scale Ordnance Survey map of the area or try Bing UK. Also consider an 19c map from https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ . With a bit of luck you will be able to find the ancestral home. * Use google earth to take a stroll round and see what is actually there today. 5. For churches check their websites. More and more rural churches seem to be only open on Sunday (and then not every Sunday). If you are looking for graves check Findmypast/DevonFHS burial registers to see if you are in with a chance. Not everyone has a gravestone but there are a few grave yards that have been indexed. Cheers Paul _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community — School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html