For those interested, the U.S. laws are not as strict as England, the census records can be released after 72 years. The census records are available on-line at Ancestry.com from 1790 - 1930 (1790 - 1840 only have the head of house and the number of males and females in the house). I have contacted some second/third cousins because some of the folks on the 1930 census are still alive and are also listed in the phone book (yahoo.com, click on people link). They in turn filled in the details from 1930 to date. Cheers! Keith -----Original Message----- From: Colin Hinson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ BRAD] Genealogy Documentary on Channel 4 Hi Folks, If you have long lost relatives in the USA (and only the USA - ie. not Canada), your luck might be in! As a Genuki maintainer, I received a message from Alex Lind, as shown below. As most of you will know that we as Genuki don't have "members", and so I wrote to Alex asking if she would like me to post the message to the Yorkshire lists and she said she would be delighted if I did, so here it is below. She also sent me a "flyer", and I have uploaded this to: http://www.blunham.com/for/Channel4/UKflyer.htm this gives application details etc. Best wishes, and good luck, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://cdroms.blunham.com/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >Dear 'Maintainers' >I'm the Associate Producer of a new genealogy documentary series for >Channel 4. The focus of our series is to follow the compelling >journeys of exciting British characters who are tracing estranged or >long lost relatives in the USA. > >I am hoping that Genuki might be interested in helping me get in >contact with people who might fit the above criteria by perhaps >posting a note on the website or forwarding a flyer to your members. > >I hope our project is something that interests you all as any help >would be gratefully received. > >Best regards, > >Alex Lind ==== ENG-YKS-BRADFORD Mailing List ==== Please NO VIRUS warnings or OFF TOPIC messages on this List. Any warnings regarding a virus please send them to the list admin who will decide if the warning should be posted. ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx
I have a similar story to tell. I managed to track down living relatives in Rhode Island with the help of the 1930 US census, plus looking up recent obituaries in the Providence Journal, which helpfully gave the names and towns of surviving relatives. I didn't realise that members of my Hird family had moved over here, until I searched on some distinctive family names on Ancestry (Olive, Matilda, Jonas, Benjamin) and found a bunch of them in Providence, which is about 50 miles down the road from where I live! Rob --- "Collingwood, Keith B OPE2" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For those interested, the U.S. laws are not as > strict as England, the > census records can be released after 72 years. The > census records are > available on-line at Ancestry.com from 1790 - 1930 > (1790 - 1840 only > have the head of house and the number of males and > females in the > house). I have contacted some second/third cousins > because some of the > folks on the 1930 census are still alive and are > also listed in the > phone book (yahoo.com, click on people link). They > in turn filled in > the details from 1930 to date. > > Cheers! > > Keith > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Hinson > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ BRAD] Genealogy Documentary on Channel 4 > > Hi Folks, > If you have long lost relatives in the USA (and only > the USA - ie. > not Canada), your luck might be in! > > As a Genuki maintainer, I received a message from > Alex Lind, as shown > below. As most of you will know that we as Genuki > don't have > "members", and so I wrote to Alex asking if she > would like me to post > the message to the Yorkshire lists and she said she > would be > delighted if I did, so here it is below. > > She also sent me a "flyer", and I have uploaded this > to: > http://www.blunham.com/for/Channel4/UKflyer.htm > this gives application details etc. > > Best wishes, and good luck, > Colin Hinson > > In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. > Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: > http://cdroms.blunham.com/ > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > >Dear 'Maintainers' > >I'm the Associate Producer of a new genealogy > documentary series for > >Channel 4. The focus of our series is to follow > the compelling > >journeys of exciting British characters who are > tracing estranged or > >long lost relatives in the USA. > > > >I am hoping that Genuki might be interested in > helping me get in > >contact with people who might fit the above > criteria by perhaps > >posting a note on the website or forwarding a flyer > to your members. > > > >I hope our project is something that interests you > all as any help > >would be gratefully received. > > > >Best regards, > > > >Alex Lind > > > > > ==== ENG-YKS-BRADFORD Mailing List ==== > Please NO VIRUS warnings or OFF TOPIC messages on > this List. Any > warnings regarding a virus please send them to the > list admin who will > decide if the warning should be posted. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so > much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. > Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > ==== ENG-YKS-BRADFORD Mailing List ==== > Bradford List covers the whole of the Bradford > Postal Code area........which is Skipton and > beyond, Tong and beyond, Cleckheaton and beyond, & > Keighley & Beyond > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about > your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the > last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >