2. U3A Genealogy
December 18th 2012

4. Look at
Write down Talk to Plan your
Family
What you know Relatives Research
Records
START
Discover
Delve into
What sources
Ancestors
available
lives
Other Keep effective
sources records
Births
Wills Parish Marriages
Censuses
Records Deaths

6. Welcome
• Welcome
• Blog update, have a look at:
• http://rodneysgenealogyblog.blogspot.co.uk/
• Stuff from me,
• Bailey project
• Stuff from you!

9. http://www.londonlives.org/

10. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?gid=29&region=3

11. England Jurisdictions 1851
• Have you ever wanted to find a map showing the
parish where your ancestor lived but weren’t sure
where to go to find one? Have you ever needed to
know the surrounding or contiguous parishes to the
parish where your ancestor lived? Have you wished
you knew what court to look in to find a will? Now,
right at your fingertips, in the comfort of your own
home, you can find answers to these questions and
many more.

12. • The England Jurisdictions, 1851 mapping system
provides a wealth of information about places in
England which until now was only found by using
many different sources.
• One of the first steps in searching for a family in the
British Isles is to determine in which parish the
family lived. If you have a place name, you can use
England Jurisdictions, 1851, to find out about that
place. By entering the name of a place in the search
box and clicking “Search”, you begin an adventure
that allows you to see the place on a map and learn
about that place. To begin, you can learn whether it
is a parish, town, hamlet or village, which county it
belongs to, and if it is not a parish, the parish to
which it belongs.

13. • After you have determined the parish where your ancestor
lived, you need to find the records that will provide
information about your ancestor. If your ancestor lived after
1837, you can find a birth, marriage, or death record in the
records of Civil Registration. In order to use Civil Registration
effectively, you must know a district. On this website, once
you have clicked on a parish a bubble will appear containing
information such as the jurisdictions for the parish. One of
the jurisdictions will be the Civil Registration district.
• Church of England records are a major source to use for
finding ancestors especially before 1837. This mapping
system provides dates when the parish registers and
bishops’ transcripts begin. If you don’t find your people in
Church of England records, use the list of other
denominations known to exist in the parish to determine
other churches where you might find your ancestors.

14. • Finding a will for an ancestor or an ancestor’s family is a very
important part of the research process. It is necessary to
know the court where your ancestor would most likely have
had a will probated. Wills in England could be probated in
many different courts, making it difficult to identify where a
will might be found. The jurisdictions table on the site tells
you the most likely court to use for the place where your
ancestor lived.
• At times, you do not find your ancestors in the parish where
you thought they lived. It is necessary to search in the
surrounding or contiguous parishes for them. England
Jurisdictions, 1851 provides a map showing those parishes
and will print a list of them for you to use. You can also
create a list of parishes within a radius of ¼ mile, 5 miles, 10
miles, or 15 miles of the parish you are searching. A simple
click on a parish will provide information for that parish.

15. • To effectively research your ancestors, it is important that
you find a topographical map of the area where your
ancestors lived. It is good to see the relationship between
your ancestors’ parish and the rivers, streams, roads,
mountains, etc. You can choose to use an Ordnance Survey
Map underlay to see that detail.
• Maps and information can be printed so you can take them
with you as you work away from a computer. You might want
a map, a list of the parishes within a county, a list of parishes
within a certain radius of the ancestor’s parish, or a list of
parishes within a certain jurisdiction such as a civil
registration district. These lists and more can be printed.
• The England Jurisdictions, 1851 mapping system is a quick and
easy way to find answers for many of the questions you have
regarding the places where your ancestors lived. Find the
answers to your questions by going
to http://maps.familysearch.org.

16. History House
• Principally focussed on Essex genealogy, but
some good articles covering broader issues
• http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/your_ancesto
rs.html
• Let’s have a look......

18. The Bailey project
• Increase our abilities to conduct genealogy
research
• Increase our experience of using the range of
research tools and databases
• Build up our skills at overcoming brick walls
• Going beyond genealogy to family history
• Learning to piece it all together

19. How will we do it?
• Someone to “own” the project”
• Someone for censuses
• Someone for BMDs
• Someone for parish registers.
• Someone to look for tombstones, etc and
burial records.
• Someone for checking out existing family
trees via Genes Reunited, Ancestry, perhaps
Rootsweb Mailing Lists.

20. How will we do it?
• Someone to gather and store information in
their genealogy application, which should do
all of the basics and produce an appropriate
book at the end of the exercise.
• Someone to explore religious background for
various ancestors.
• Someone to explore occupations for various
ancestors.

21. How will we do it?
• Someone to see if there are any wills for any
ancestors.
• Someone to check out emi/immigration for
the various families
• Someone to gather appropriate
photos/images for use in a final document

22. The Bailey Project
• Interview with Joyce and Alan
• BMD and census work
• Legacy family information
• Anything else?
• Joseph James Benbow
• What next?
• Who will do it?

24. Finally.........
• Any other Brick Walls for the Group to look
at?
• Anything that you would like us to look at in
future meetings?
• Anything else you would like to say?