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I started researching a couple of weeks ago and I am using Legacy for recording my findings.

There's free version available at

http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/


and you might want to consider dowloading Geneology Finder at

http://www.town-local.net/genfinder/

Also take a look at the Great Harwood Geneology site at

http://www.arrodgen.org/ for tips, resources and useful links.

There's also a Yahoo Group at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrodgen/

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Katex...i had seen that session at Clayton Library, but unfortunately can't attend as i have to take Ma for some tests...maybe they will run it again if the demand is high enough.....I hope so.

Thanks Flashman for the tips.....I will try some of those sites.
I haven't been able to do much over the last week, but will get going again soon.

Flashman are you finding it addictive too?

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Yup it is really interesting and I'm amazed at how complex it can be. For instance

1) The User Manual for the Legacy software is 400 pages which is bigger than most applications like Word etc.

2) There's limitations for online research. I'm in Canada and trying to track my family's history in Great Harwood is tricky cos there's not too many Censuses on line.

3) You have to make some assumptions cos

- There's no divorce records online so spouses may change from census to census.

- Some of the handwiting can be undecipherable with spelling mistakes for the written records and you may have to tinker with the brightness and contrast with your image viewer.

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Flashman, you could try the Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths site....this may help you find who you are looking for...and it is free.....Try
www.lancashirebmd.org.uk
Also you can access some of the birth, marriage and death records via Ancestry.com......they have a free 14 day trial on at present....don't know what kind of access this gives....you may be able to access some census records.
Hope these tips help you out a little bit......if I find anything else i will pm you with it.

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Oh, I should have said that the Lancashire BMD site is transcibed by voluteers and so it can be a bit patchy in it's coverage (datewise)...but it is definitely worth a look. You might be lucky.

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my step brother has done our family tree and hes gone back to the 1800s
i have a box upstairs with about 10 folders in it, and its really interesting to read, although i will never do or carry it on its great because one of my children/grandchildren may wish to so they can pick up from where my step bro left ..

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looking for infor on dinah chippendale 1901 was at 99 market street aged 10 and i think her mother was dinah as well aged 50 then on 1911 she was widowed and lived 118 chorley road blackrod any more info on he above would be grateful

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One way to decypher writing on screen is to use a piece of tissue paper, and go over the word you want
with a pencil, this will eliminate the loops from above, & below, then you will see the word, without fiddling with contrast etc.
Retlaw.

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My mum has been doing her dad's side of the family, he was brought up on Rockmount and was called Croston - she has found out all sorts of things from different family members like her one remaining aunt and various cousins. She has been sent some wonderful photos, documents and letters which are real eye-openers. I personally have kept the 24 letters my grand-dad wrote to me when i moved out to Italy at first -they cover the period between Sept 1988-May 1993 (he was a prolific writer!). They now read as a family saga -it was the time when I, My sister and our cousin all had our children so the letters describe day to day life of all my family, who was up to what and where, the price of things, comments about local and national elections and just the details of everyday living on Exchange Street, where my Grandparents lived for over 45 years, and Cranbourne Drive, where I was brought up and my mum and dad still lived. it's surprising what people put away and forget about so do try asking family members for letters etc. you may be surprised what they can come up with...

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Got a couple of Croston's in my files.
Albert served in the R.A.M.C. &
William who served in the R.G.A.
49 Whalley Rd, Altham.
Retlaw.

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Hello Cherryl, not sure how much info you have so hopefully this is of use.
Dinah Griffiths born 1850 in Manchester married John Whitehead 1870 in Manchester. They had 3 children, Mary A. born 1873, James born 1875 and Margaret born 1878. John Whitehead possibly died 1887 in Adlington. Dinah Whitehead then married Thomas Chippendale {born 1851 Kendal** in 1890 in Chorley. They had four children, Margaret Elizabeth born 1883, James born 1885, Jane born 1886 and Dinah born 1891. Margaret Elizabeth married Thomas Charnock in 1906 at St Pauls Adlington, James married Ellen Devine 1906 in Chorley, Jane married Henry Wilkinson 1910 St Pauls Adlington, Dinah married William Makinson 1915 St David Haigh, Wigan/Leigh. All of this is from a quick check and will have to be proven, hope it is of some use, Bryan.

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Thanks -will pass this on to my mum (she is Callaoanne on Accyweb, formerly Aromaanne!), maybe she'll contact you.... I know my great-grandfather had a brother called William so it could be a link -don't think mum has ever mentioned an Albert -but the families were very big in those days!

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my cousin has done our family tree got back to 1690, found some cousins still alive & had 3 e-mails today from 2nd cousin in canada oooooooooo they seem to be coming out of the woodwork. it is hard work but very rewarding too.........lots of patience is really needed.

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Your right Mez, interesting and rewarding. I just found some direct relatives from my gt.gt.gt grandad who live a couple of hundred miles south of us in Washington State. A meeting is on the cards. Quite brilliant I think.

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I an a relative of Dinah chippendale her daughter which she had out of Wed lock in 1911 was my grandmother then she married twice after giving my grandmother away I think she had four more children.