Genealogy Chat

try putting Little Glemham in civil parish of residence in 1861 - brilliant! :-) Joy

Thanks Laird, you have just taught me something else. Great, love this site I just keep learning new things.

Pleased its been helpful for some of you. I have to say I put in County and then the village name under the residence section, not the birthplace. I just printed out a whole village of about 150 people for a friend who is doing a history of that village. Same names coming up that are mentioned in an essay written by the village squire around that time. She is well pleased. Of course, I wouldnt attempt London or any big towns! But I just tried my little local town and well worth the trawl of about 600 names. Amazing how people I know today have their (unusual) names listed along side some of my ancestors. I wish Id know it could do this when I was trawling for every 28 year old Ellen in Berkshire when I had her village name from the 1901!! DOH. I could have just put in the village name and looked through for an Ellen.

it's a good tip, yes. My better half told me yesterday, bless him! Joy

The search engine is pretty good. Want to know all men, named Enoch, born 1843 +/- 2 years who are boarding in Billericay, Essex - born anywhere ? Just fill in the relevant boxes. Also, try typing in UNKNOWN as a name - fore or surname. (qualified with county, parish, dob etc)

Didn't know about that, I am certainly going to try it.

Hi Penny and Tracey. Go on to ancestry. cencus whichever year you want, where it says birthplace, put in your county and parish or place, Hope it works for you. LIZ

:-( Didn't work for me either. Can someone explain how please Thanks

can someone tell me step by step how I use the search for neighbours bit!! thanks

just been through a whole vilage and found a few relatives,it' great. Thanks LIZ.

The neighbour search for small towns and villages but larger areas just tend to show the same street if you ask the veiw the meighbours. www*ancestry*co*uk

Nice to see you back on another thread TC. Useful tip - a bit long-winded for me as mine are in a town - I have been on there doing it for the past 2 hours and I'm only up to surname - 'C'. However, I have found one possible link so I'l go back and do some more when I have the time. Dea xx

only problem with this is the amount of people in each city/town/village area. my ancestors come from plymouth, which is a far too large city to explore in this way. Interesting though. Steve

I didn't know this either. I will be checking out my whole family tonight, I can't wait to get home from work

Which web page please, itching to have a go please, where and how ?Thanks Ros

Didn't know this. Thanks. Carol

You can do this on all the census's in Ancestry plus also LDS 1881 census - nothing new been doing it for years, just don't try the London or larger towns only on the small villages. Lin

that sounds wonderful I didnt know that either thanks

Thanks for passing that on - I had no idea that the facility existed! Hope things are getting better for you, have been thinking of you xx Love Mandy :)

Thanks TC Didn't know that Trudy