This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: steven_bancroft Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.yks.general/1252.1830/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi don't know where to start but i'm trying to find out about my family. al i know is the originated from Silsden/keighley Yorkshire. My mum is called Anne my Grandfather was called Roland who lived in Silsden until about 20 yrs ago when he passed away i think i have an uncle again living in silsden called Allan. sorry for troubling you Steve Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc- > > hi don't know where to start but i'm trying to find out about my > family. al i know is the originated from Silsden/keighley Yorkshire. > My mum is called Anne my Grandfather was called Roland who lived in > Silsden until about 20 yrs ago when he passed away i think i have an > uncle again living in silsden called Allan. sorry for troubling you > Steve> The best advice I can give is that you either treat yourself to a decent book on family history, borrow one from a library, join a course at your local tech, or trawl the Internhet with Google. Find out how to research your family history properly before you start, as you are a complete beginner. You may find my Newbies' Guide (URL below) helpful. Basically, you start with yourself and work backwards a generation at a time, using birth and marriage certificates until you get back before 1901, when the census returns become available. You must document each link along the way and not proceed further until you are sure you have it right. As I said, go and get yourself a decent book on genealogy - there are lots of them out there - and read it thoroughly. Just posing a vague query here is NOT the way to go about it. -- 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