Genealogy Chat

See if Katrina can help - I'm not sure of the coverage of her CDs.

Jill

They are at Blean/ Boughton area.

Also Katrina on Records Office is offering searches of some of Kent parish records.

Whereabouts in Kent are they?

Some of the Kent records are on line at Cityark. This covers the Medway towns and some of NW Kent - Gravesend and some of the surrounding areas are on there.

Jill

Hi A
I to have found people on the IGI and FTM who are actually my ancestors but so many people have laid claim to them its unbelievable the surnames are mispelt the dates of birth and marriages are wrong and my gt gt granfather supposedly died in America Which isn't true I have a copy of the entries of his death and burial

Thanks for replying.
I know that the IGI wasn't set up for genealogy but even so, it seems ridiculous that people can contribute information without showing its origin. But that said, I have recently seen on a USA based site that my ggg grandmother emigrated to the USA when she was still knocking out children in the UK and probably the closest she got to the US was a day trip to Wales!
I will try and get to Kent record office sometime and hopefully solve this mystery.

I have found that some people believe what they want to believe regardless of whether the information can be verified or not.

Example is that of a grandmother of mine who supposedly married again after being widowed. Even though I pointed out gently that there is no evidence of her re-marrying and that her first 2 children were of the first marriage and not the second as stated in a census the tree owner did not like the idea and argued against it, presumably because it then made his grandmother an illegitimate child.

It brought home to me quite abruptly that you have to check everything from other people carefully.

If this is a submitted entry I would treat it with great caution.

Many of these are works of fiction.

Tell us the names and perhaps someone can find a different record somewhere.

You really need the real parish record which may not be on the IGI

Sue

I think I have found a relative using the IGI, which I know has to be treated with cautiion!

There are 3 sisters baptised - parents not yet married but both named.
The sisters' surnames are all the same but not those of either parent!
The parents later get married according to the IGI.

The IGI states "Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available. Ancestral File may list the same family and the submitter" But the Ancestral file doesn't!

The birth pre dates registration at the GRO so cannot get birth certificates.
I have checked the IGI to see if either parent had a relation with the surnames that they gave their children but found nothing. Haven't found the sisters or parents in the 41 census yet, except the one which I think may be my ancestor who was married by this time.

Was it usual to give offspring an apparently unconnected surname?