Take an exciting and rewarding journey into your own past with the family history research timelines, easy-to-use tools for delving into four fascinating areas of your family history.
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It can search these sites for your ancestors automatically and give you hints on where to find more information. Legacy 9 is available from their website here , and is available in two versions. The Standard version is completely free, allowing you to sample most of the features of Legacy with no time limit. You can get started right away without having to read a lot of manuals or watch a bunch of tutorials. The main screen includes both an ancestry chart and a separate details box for a selected individual, letting you enter information without losing sight of the big picture.
That means you can concentrate on just a small section at a time without your other branches filling up the screen. The program also offers tools to view two family trees side by side so you can compare them before deciding if you want to merge them.
Family Historian includes a dynamic mapping tool that not only lets you see where your ancestors were, but lets you color code them, zoom in and out, view all the events that happened at a particular location, and more. Family Historian 6 also offers powerful tools for sharing your family tree with others in print or electronically. It includes about twice as many charts as Family Tree Maker, though not as many as Legacy 9, and they are not as artistic.
The lack of backgrounds leaves Family Historian charts looking a little dull compared to other programs. The Family Historian website includes quick start guides and tutorials, but has a more limited online community compared to other products, especially Family Tree Maker. On the other hand, because it is produced by a British company, the Family Historian community might be particularly helpful for those researching family roots in the United Kingdom.
The program links directly with the MyHeritage and Findmypast websites, letting you easily locate information on your ancestors and download it directly into your family tree. However, unlike the other programs on our list, it does not include direct linking with Ancestry or FamilySearch.
Family Historian 6 is available from Amazon here. There is also a day free trial if you want to test it out before you buy. It offers all of the basics you need, plus some useful bonus features. This can make doing research on the road, at libraries, courthouses, or wherever, much easier, and lets you enter search results right away. RootsMagic makes it simple to share your findings.
Built-in tools help you create custom webpages, CDs, and DVDs, and offers plenty of print options as well. This program is one of the few that currently allows you to include same-sex marriages in your family tree, and can manage other complex relationships as well. That can make it more frustrating for folks just starting out in genealogy. RootsMagic 7 works on the greatest range of operating systems of any of our picks, including every version of Windows since Windows and XP, and on Macs When it arrives, you will be able to examine the information it contains and confirm it is correct: the name and date of birth should match the information you know to be true.
And your father was right - Henry's parents are listed on the certificate as being Arthur Alan Crosbie, a teacher, and Ada Crosbie, formerly George George was therefore her maiden name. You now have your first genealogical document, and have discovered the names of your great grandparents. These names should be added to your family tree. Your next step is to obtain a marriage certificate for the parents of Henry Alan Crosbie. You know from the birth certificate that they were called Arthur Alan Crosbie and Ada George, so you can hunt for this combination in the marriage indexes, where you come across them in in the Bath registration district.
Using the reference you obtain from the index, you can once again order the certificate. When it arrives, this document will give you further names for your family tree. The marriage certificate tells you that Arthur Alan Crosbie was 22 years old at the time of his marriage, that he worked as a trainee teacher and that his father was William Arthur Crosbie, a wheelwright.
As for Ada, she was 18 years old at the time of the marriage, had no occupation and her father was Frederick George, a chair maker. You have now identified two of your great great grandparents! So now what? Well, you have enough information to search for the next round of birth certificates.
You now know that Arthur Alan Crosbie was 22 when he married in , which means that he should have been born in or about Ada George was 18 in , so was probably born in or about It is a good idea to allow a bit of room for error when calculating years of birth from marriage certificates because it was not unusual for one or both parties to doctor their ages a little - perhaps to make the bride appear younger than the groom, or to pretend they were over 21, which would allow them to marry without parental consent.
It is a good idea to allow a bit of room for error when calculating years of birth from marriage certificates because it was not unusual for one or both parties to doctor their ages a little You should therefore search the birth indexes for Arthur and Ada in the relevant years, and a few years either side.
If you are lucky, there will only be one person of each name born in the right time period, leaving you confident that you have found the right ones. However, you will have to do some checking when the certificates arrive. You know from the marriage certificate that Arthur's father was William Arthur Crosbie, and Ada's father Frederick George, so does this information match what is recorded on the birth certificates? You may even find that the professions of wheelwright and chair maker that appear on the marriage certificate are replicated on the birth certificates, but remember that many years had passed in between, and people might have changed occupation between one document and the next.
Once you are happy that you have the correct birth certificates for Arthur and Ada, you will have the full names of both sets of parents, so can continue by searching for both marriage certificates. With luck and sound technique, you might keep this pattern up for several generations. Wouldn't it be lovely if everything always worked out this simply? Well, sometimes it does, especially if you are dealing with an unusual name.
But there are never any guarantees in genealogical research, and often all sorts of complications emerge that force you to turn detective to keep yourself on the straight and narrow. For example, the name Henry Alan Crosbie is not very common, and you are unlikely to find lots of options in the indexes.
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