Genealogy Chat

Hi all. Just thought it would be interesting to see the amount of BMD certs everyone has got in relation to their tree size and how long they have been researching for. Your Tree size does not have to be what you have on GR as I myself have 148 in my tree but only 111 on GR & the No of BMD certs can include photocopies. Me: Tree = 148 BMD = 41 Time = 1 year 6 months

929 individuals 1 birth cert (excluding my own and immediate family) 5 months researching Plus LOTS of help from people on here ;)

Gees tracey, 5 months for searching and you have 929 people in your tree, you must have a big, big family line with loads of rellies? i have: 485 individuals 15 BMD's 1 year and 4 months i have been searching! :)))))))))))))))))

574 individuals on FTM2005 12 certs ordered - 1 wrong 185 marriages 74 years average lifespan started Nov 2004. love it.

about 620 in tree on here,more that I have to verify Ive got over 100 BMD certs and Ive been researching properly for about 3 years Anna :-)

Anon - luckily for me, some of the ones I'm related to all have a rare surname, so any I find can be slotted into my tree lol The others have been a bit harder to research, which is why I put in that I have had lots of help from certain people on this site.

- c300 names, - 15 certificates (not including 5 wrong ones) - Started July 2004 Lack of funds to purchase more certificates being the main thing that is slowing me down! Tracy, how did you manage to get 900+ people and only have to purchase 1 birth certificate? (I'm just jealous) Sam

Like I said - rare surnames help :) Only got back to 1850 thoroughly though. Added LOTS of brothers and sisters and their families lol

I have also been passed a 'branch' related to my maternal grandmother, which I have had no part in building - but the figures are impressive:- Individuals - 1552 Marriages - 548 Generations - 12 Unique surnames - 454 Average lifespan - 68 years 4 months Earliest birth date - 1628

No. in Tree: 1925 No. of Certs: couple of dozen Time doing this: My dad started in late 1970's and I joined him in this quest last year. Hubby's side No. in Tree: 441 No. of certs: a couple Time doing this: my onlaws started in late 1970's and just did it sporadically. I started on their line last year and have added about 150 of those names. Trying to get them more interested! Joanne

beginning to think i am doing something wrong, lol...have 41 certs...Just sent off for another 7 and only have about 250 people in my tree!

I'd say you were doing it right Chris. Have 105 names 32 Certs plus 4 on order (and another 20+ BMD refs for certs I want to order!) Started July 04 Jacqui

Well I have never counted how many certificate I have, to many I think, There's my dad's side I have all the certicates back to my gg grandfathers marriage, his fathers death, then his mothers side of the family, then there my Mum's only got back to g granddad on her fathers side, still looking for his marriage, I have found his wifes family, Mums mother side I am back to the 1600's as they are local and I have all the records for them. Then theres my husbands family need I go on. If I started to count it might just make me think I am spending to much money. Not only do I have copies of census pages but I do have CD's as well, then there the wills. I think I will stop here as I am thinking now how much I have spent. Should have added I have been doing my FH for 5 years Irene

I must be doing this wrong, started in october 04, 35 individuals, 23 cert's plus 8 on order plus got most of them on census

Tree: roughly 80 direct ancestors within the scope of civil registration BMD: at least one for virtually all of them How long: too long Worry: I suspect I have acquired some certificates whose details I haven't noted down!

I've been doing this about for about six months, I have several hundred people in my tree (BIG THANKS to a rellie who had already done some work) but I daren't say how many BMD certs in case my bank manager is a member! Louise

Chris, I'd say you're probably doing better than me. I hold off buying certs unless I really have to. I've probably gone wrong somewhere, but I'll figure that out later lol

79 names 69 certs 13 PR photocopies 23 WRONG certs Searching: ten years Ancestral Name Data Base - over 4000 entries, earliest 1179. Marjorie

i have 1000+ names in my tree so far 15 bmd certs 2 baptism certs 1 divorce paper 2 wills too many generations to count, (lots of american, canadian, australian) started research as part of school history project about 16 years ago, but only got serious about researching just over a year ago.

300 direct ancestors Post 1837 - all available BMD certs. - 107 Pre 1837 - 344 photocopies from PRs Copies of Census Records for all direct ancestors 1841-1901 except for one transported 2500 individuals in total 5 years.