Roy..anything you can find of Normingtons in Oxenhope..please also my other side was Rushtons...good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] 1901 census look up > Perhaps I could just make it abslutely clear what I am prepared to help > listers with? > > 1) General and more specific advice on how to research your family tree, > find ancestors, check out the accuracy of the information, find sources, > locate record offices, where parish registers for the whole of Yorkshire > are held, etc - in other words, specialist advice that is not easily > obtainable elsewhere. To this end I possess, for instance, reference > books that list the whereabouts of registers and bishop's transcripts for > every parish in Yorkshire, sources I wouldn't expect too many to have. > > 2) With regard to this list and Bradford, specifically, I was born in > Bradford, have considerable knowledge of the city and possess a > number of books and old maps concerning the city not easily accessible > to others. I am always happy to do "look-ups" (personally I dislike that > phrase as being somewhat juvenile but nobody seems to have yet > thought of a better one) in these books, which also contain many photos > of old Bradford. I can often find streets and places that no longer exist, > for instance, and have a good working knowledge of the city's history and > records. > > 3) I possess a complete set of the censuses on the S & N CDs for the > whole of Yorkshire from 1841-1901 (with the exception of the 1881 which > they haven't done) and a complete transcription (NOT an index) of the > 1851 census for Bradford on CD (available from the Bradford FHS). I am > willing to help with searching these in cases where someone can > demonstrate that they have made serious efforts to help themselves and > do their own homework first and failed to find something. > > What I am not prepared to do - and I have always been utterly consistent > in my view on this - is look-ups in resources that are easily available on > the Internet and that requesters to "SKS" could easily do for themselves > but won't, possibly because they don't wish to incur the expense. I will > happily tell them HOW to do it in the hope they may learn something, but > in my view spoonfeeding newcomers with look-ups doesn't, in the long > term, actually help them to learn how to research. > > Sorry, but those are my views and I won't be changing them. Anyone who > wants to pick my brains with regard to specific advice about a particular > problem, or discover some information that isn't easily available > elsewhere, is warmly welcomed. I really don't think I can be fairer than > that! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >