Family tree

Ancestry.co.uk is the one I've been using. It seems to have everything I'm looking for and isn't outrageously expensive.

But never have.

I will give Ancestry.co.uk a go :)

so if you find, say, your grandmother in 1901 as a child, her parents will be on.

I don't think duck eggs have to be registered :)

... but you need DEFRA!

So, what is the history behind Owain_Glyndwr?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain_Glynd%C5%B5r

... so he's not related to CD then!

I thought everyone in Wales worked for CD to be honest :)

If everyone in Wales worked for CD, then he wouldn't have any Welsh clients ;)

England, rated 4th in the world by FIFA, lucky to scrape a pathetic 1-0 win against Wales.  :)

Nuff said ?

... at least they could  stick the ball in the back of the net when faced with a gaping goal mouth, unlike Mr Earnshaw!

End of :o)

Old Greying Acc...   .. at least they could stick the ball in the back of the net when faced with a gaping goal mouth, unlike Mr Earnshaw! 

Ah, but England have so much more opportunity to practice in front of an gaping open space - like the one in the trophy cupboard between 1966 and now.

Moving back on topic, there are many ancestry sites online, BUT, if your family is from Wales - forget them.  Hatching, matching, and despatching records were centralised in England long ago, not so in Wales, so most trails run dry once you cross the border into Wales and you will find yourself trawling through the occasional census and having to access church & chapel records for anything else.  

I'm not so sure:

"He instigated an ultimately unsuccessful but long-running revolt"

... no, I can't - don't want to get Henry'd! :o)

@thisistibi Correct - although there are originals of a lot of other documents available. Do you know of any sites that have the certificates archived?

@thisistibi That's really good going, and there are some very good, free, resources. I've traced one bit of lineage back to 1120 using Ancestry.

My mum had grown up never having known her own mum (left when mum was 18 months old) so I decided to dig a bit. Not only did I find my grand-mother (deceased), I also found her son who had no idea that his mother had not only been married before but also had produced a half-sister. Somewhat of a shock for bible bashing fundamentalist Christians from Alabama!!

Big tip for USA & New Zealand tracing - their phone books are called White pages and will often give you first and last names of everyone matching a name you might be trying to trace. Apart from the half brother I also found uncles, aunts, cousins etc in New Zealand who were slightly more excited to find out about my mum and some have even been up to visit her. 

No it doesn't show birth certificates but after about 1916 it shows the mothers maiden name, You can then use another search using combination of surnames to get all the probable siblings.  After that it censuses.  I've been searching my tree for over 30 years and have only purchased a handful of certificates, in general you can build up a very good tree without purchase the certificates.  You can use census back to 1841 and then the IGI may take you a lot further back, if not then it's genuki or going to county record offices to look at the actual registers.  Ancestry is one of the best i've found.