I wish mine would shout up. Robert Weldrake arrived in Birstall, West Yorkshire 1780 with wife Susannah - give me a clue where you were married or born!! I've searched everywhere....! Pleased for your discoveries, but so envious!! Jane Chasing W(h)eldrake/drick - any variation, anytime, anywhere (Mars also considered...!) Happy hunting folks -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Magnusson via Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 7:28 PM To: Yorksgen@rootsweb.com 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