Hello All, Prompted to try to research all my family by this great and helpful List, I am temporarily unsuscribing to research my maternal grandmother's ancestors in the above 2 places. I have joined 2 relevant lists and wrote an introductory email but there was nothing like the welcomes people on this list receive. I am finding that we are so fortunate in Yorkshite with all the Parish records we have available to us, as Glos and Berks have very little on ancestry. I shan't immediately unsuscribe since someone on this list may have some pointers and advice for me. In just over a month I've managed to get back to my 3 x Great Grandparents but am a little stymied from there on. So I'm back to 1752 but even the IGI doesn't seem to have any pointers from then back. A relative whose Great Great Grandfather is the same as mine has already contacted me through ancestry. I'll put my email address at the end of this email in case there's a post about my husband's Yorkshire ancestors in the new few months. Meanwhile, special thanks to Dawn Gitlin for that delicious Anzac biscuit recipe and to the lovely email friends I've made on this list. Surnames in West Yorkshire are: BATTY, BROWN and FRETWELL. Surnames in Gloucestershire are: ELLIS (so far only direct line.) Surnames in Berkshire are: YORK, DYER and KIBBLEWHITE. Best wishes to all and happy hunting and helping each other. Carolyn GARTHSIDE-WILSON in Australia. Email: dn.wilson@bigpond.com

Hi Carolyn A few observations if I may Apart from the obvious fact that Yorkshire is much larger (over four times larger than Berkshire) than any other County and therefore it is likely that there are proportionately more subscribers to Yorksgen than Berks list Berkshire has its own difficulties regarding access to Parish records, as you say very little online at all You have posted once to the Berkshire list less than two days ago, so a little patience is in order perhaps :-) although see below The one post to Berks list has a rather bland subject line "New member" and does not appear to ask a question, except is anyone else researching the same names, that rarely works on any list , so I am not overly surprised you have had no replies There are no posts by you to any other list, Gloucestershire or other than Yorkshire (did you post to the wrong address perhaps?) So perhaps you might try reposting to Berkshire (and posting to Gloucestershire) and give your post a more interesting subject line, and rephrase your post to include a more direct question (such as a lookup for a Baptism say) That way you might get some response Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) PS there is no need to include your email address in your post as its in every post you make anyway PPS why unsubscribe from Yorksgen? I am on over 50 lists and the traffic is so little these days its hardly noticeable much less hard to handle On 06/07/2012 00:16, Darryl Wilson wrote: > Hello All, > > Prompted to try to research all my family by this great and helpful > List, I am temporarily unsuscribing to research my maternal > grandmother's ancestors in the above 2 places. > > I have joined 2 relevant lists and wrote an introductory email but > there was nothing like the welcomes people on this list receive. I am > finding that we are so fortunate in Yorkshite with all the Parish > records we have available to us, as Glos and Berks have very little > on ancestry. > > I shan't immediately unsuscribe since someone on this list may have > some pointers and advice for me. In just over a month I've managed to > get back to my 3 x Great Grandparents but am a little stymied from > there on. So I'm back to 1752 but even the IGI doesn't seem to have > any pointers from then back. A relative whose Great Great Grandfather > is the same as mine has already contacted me through ancestry. > > I'll put my email address at the end of this email in case there's a > post about my husband's Yorkshire ancestors in the new few months.