Steve Hayes's Blog (9)

We recently discovered a link between our family and that of a well-researched online family tree on the Ellwood family of Cumbria, England. This has expanded the scope of our Cumbria genealogy research enormously, and we have found many people with Ellwood family members shown in online trees, often with strange anomalies and glaring errors.

We have started an…

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I now have two family history blogs (apart from this one):

• Personal Family History and Family News. This blog, on Wordpress, is a log of our family history research, and also has snippets of information about our family, either family news in the present, or anecdotes from the past.
• General Genealogy Research: This is a more general blog (on Blogger) on family history and…

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If you have Ancestors from the Isle of Axholme (north-west Lincolnshire in England), a very good site is Axholme Ancestry. There's more about it here.



The site actually covers a bit more than the Isle of Axholme itself, and includes south-east Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire as well -- Humberside, in fact. So if you have any ancestors or other relatives… Continue

I've just updated information about the Devantier family on my main family history blog.

Torben Devantie, who has the biggest collection of Davantier family information, recently changed the address of his site. There are also Devantier family groups on Facebook and Orkut.

One of the things I feel the need for as a research tool is an event database program, and I wonder if anyone else feels the need for auch a thing.



Most lineage-linked genealogy programs allow one to enter and search events relating to people, but I see the need, in addition, to be able to search for people relating to events.



In other words, one would enter events, and enter information about people who participated in the events, whether related to each other or not.… Continue

For the last three months I've been working a lot on the Sandercock families, most of which seem to originate in eastern Cornwall and western Devon in England. I've been trying to link all the ones I find into families. My own branch come from Cardinham in Cornwall, and Ive traced them back to the marriage of William Sandercock to Mary Verran in 1729.



Now I'm trying to bring all Sandercock researchers together, and there is a… Continue

I'm compiling a list of genealogy web sites that will move or diasppear altogether when Geocities closes in October.

This is your last chance to get what you can from them while you can.

To see the list of pages click here.

You can also contribute more pages to the list -- instructions on how to do so are on the same page.

My main genealogical activity in the last couple of weeks has been chasing up our Sandercock - Saundercock families. I've just blogged about the earliest ancestors, William Sandercock and Mary Verran, with a picture of their tombstone in Cardinham churchyard in Cornwall, England, over on our main family history blog.



I started a new genealogy database file where I've tried… Continue