Oh, how exciting to find such a goldmine. I was lucky to receive one picture of two ancesters from a woman who found it with her deceased grandfather's things. These people had no connection to her family at all and apparently was just a neighbour. It was a picture of two young men beside a very old Foden steam wagon with a company name and phone number on the truck door and a licence plate. I was able to verify info on the licence plate. It was an amazing find for me ........and that was just one picture. I agree with you about searching peripheral lines. I have climbed over a couple of walls by finding a tid bit of info in a peripheral line that leads back to a direct line. I feel her excitement..... Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trish Michael via" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> To: "Yorksgen" <yorksgen-l@rootsweb.com> Hi everyone. Whilst this isn't Yorkshire related it might encourage us all to keep digging.My friend Carol, found herself with this niggling desire to take a peripheral line in her research. Her husband's grandfather, Thomas EVANS has been a thorn in her side for years. He came to Australia, got some land grants, etc married, had several children and died. She can't find where he was born or when as places and dates changed on various records and many records she needs have not survived. Australia doesn't have heaps of census records so it was extremely difficult for her to find much about him...Anyway he died, wife remarried, that husband died she remarried again....Carol has been following that line. For some reason she entered his name into Google, got a lead to the National Library of Australia and followed the links etc etc. They have an eresource so Carol rang them for more information...and was flabbergasted by the reply...yes we have 103 photographs donated by a family member.Some have names on them - others don't apparently. She has to go down to Sydney to take photo of the photos as they want $22 EACH for a copy to be sent even by email...well worth the trip down I'd say.I might add here that the family were not Sydney folks....far north coast of NSW...so how they got there we don't know yet.Somewhere along the line she has also found 4 daughters no one knew existed...more research to be done on that. So if you hear a little voice saying do this or that for heaven's sake listen to it....you just never know what you might find in the oddest of places. Good old Google again. I can't help wondering why people do only follow direct lines. I think, potentially, they could be missing out on a lot. Hope it gives you all some encouragement for the New Year. Have fun!! ttfnTrishEx Hull lass on central coast of NSW
That's wonderful!! I agree with listening to those little voices wholeheartedly. I swear they are the voices of our elusive ancestors giving us directions as to how to find them!! I've even woke up in the middle of the night with a voice in my head telling me to look here or there and lo and behold there's the person I'm looking for or a very good lead and most often in a very unusual place. Nancy On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Margaret Cambridge via < yorksgen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Oh, how exciting to find such a goldmine. I was lucky to receive one > picture of two ancesters from a woman who found it with her deceased > grandfather's things. These people had no connection to her family at all > and apparently was just a neighbour. It was a picture of two young men > beside a very old Foden steam wagon with a company name and phone number > on > the truck door and a licence plate. I was able to verify info on the > licence plate. It was an amazing find for me ........and that was just one > picture. > I agree with you about searching peripheral lines. I have climbed over a > couple of walls by finding a tid bit of info in a peripheral line that > leads > back to a direct line. > > I feel her excitement..... > > Marg > >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Trish Michael via" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> > To: "Yorksgen" <yorksgen-l@rootsweb.com> > > > Hi everyone. Whilst this isn't Yorkshire related it might encourage us all > to keep digging.My friend Carol, found herself with this niggling desire to > take a peripheral line in her research. Her husband's grandfather, Thomas > EVANS has been a thorn in her side for years. He came to Australia, got > some > land grants, etc married, had several children and died. She can't find > where he was born or when as places and dates changed on various records > and > many records she needs have not survived. Australia doesn't have heaps of > census records so it was extremely difficult for her to find much about > him...Anyway he died, wife remarried, that husband died she remarried > again....Carol has been following that line. For some reason she entered > his > name into Google, got a lead to the National Library of Australia and > followed the links etc etc. They have an eresource so Carol rang them for > more information...and was flabbergasted by the reply...yes we have 103 > photographs donated by a family member.Some have names on them - others > don't apparently. She has to go down to Sydney to take photo of the photos > as they want $22 EACH for a copy to be sent even by email...well worth the > trip down I'd say.I might add here that the family were not Sydney > folks....far north coast of NSW...so how they got there we don't know > yet.Somewhere along the line she has also found 4 daughters no one knew > existed...more research to be done on that. > > So if you hear a little voice saying do this or that for heaven's sake > listen to it....you just never know what you might find in the oddest of > places. Good old Google again. > I can't help wondering why people do only follow direct lines. I think, > potentially, they could be missing out on a lot. > Hope it gives you all some encouragement for the New Year. Have fun!! > > ttfnTrishEx Hull lass on central coast of NSW > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Me too Nancy....I am huge believer in divine guidance, call it what you will.....just listen when the voices speak. It's encouragement to us all. I even went on Genesreunited yesterday for the first time in months....just in case. ttfnTrish From: Nancy Magnusson via <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> To: "Yorksgen@rootsweb.com" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, 11 January 2016, 6:28 Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] A word of encouragement but not Yorkshire That's wonderful!! I agree with listening to those little voices wholeheartedly. I swear they are the voices of our elusive ancestors giving us directions as to how to find them!! I've even woke up in the middle of the night with a voice in my head telling me to look here or there and lo and behold there's the person I'm looking for or a very good lead and most often in a very unusual place. Nancy On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Margaret Cambridge via < yorksgen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Oh, how exciting to find such a goldmine. I was lucky to receive one > picture of two ancesters from a woman who found it with her deceased > grandfather's things. These people had no connection to her family at all > and apparently was just a neighbour. It was a picture of two young men > beside a very old Foden steam wagon with a company name and phone number > on > the truck door and a licence plate. I was able to verify info on the > licence plate. It was an amazing find for me ........and that was just one > picture. > I agree with you about searching peripheral lines. I have climbed over a > couple of walls by finding a tid bit of info in a peripheral line that > leads > back to a direct line. > > I feel her excitement..... > > Marg > >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Trish Michael via" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> > To: "Yorksgen" <yorksgen-l@rootsweb.com> > > > Hi everyone. Whilst this isn't Yorkshire related it might encourage us all > to keep digging.My friend Carol, found herself with this niggling desire to > take a peripheral line in her research. Her husband's grandfather, Thomas > EVANS has been a thorn in her side for years. He came to Australia, got > some > land grants, etc married, had several children and died. She can't find > where he was born or when as places and dates changed on various records > and > many records she needs have not survived. Australia doesn't have heaps of > census records so it was extremely difficult for her to find much about > him...Anyway he died, wife remarried, that husband died she remarried > again....Carol has been following that line. For some reason she entered > his > name into Google, got a lead to the National Library of Australia and > followed the links etc etc. They have an eresource so Carol rang them for > more information...and was flabbergasted by the reply...yes we have 103 > photographs donated by a family member.Some have names on them - others > don't apparently. She has to go down to Sydney to take photo of the photos > as they want $22 EACH for a copy to be sent even by email...well worth the > trip down I'd say.I might add here that the family were not Sydney > folks....far north coast of NSW...so how they got there we don't know > yet.Somewhere along the line she has also found 4 daughters no one knew > existed...more research to be done on that. > > So if you hear a little voice saying do this or that for heaven's sake > listen to it....you just never know what you might find in the oddest of > places. Good old Google again. > I can't help wondering why people do only follow direct lines. I think, > potentially, they could be missing out on a lot. > Hope it gives you all some encouragement for the New Year. Have fun!! > > ttfnTrishEx Hull lass on central coast of NSW > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message