Geoff’s Genealogy Update 12 February 2007
Monday February 12th, 2007 | Geoff
Another week of entering census data into my Family Tree Database.
Ancestry.com is a wonderful resource, enabling me to find so much information without leaving my desk. I keep on discovering so much about Bankes descendants – when I first started treeing about 20 years ago I could never have imagined such riches!
On Thursday I drove through the snow to my local LDS Family History Center and this third session completed my viewing of the Monkwearmouth Parish Burials register, 1792-1845, seeking HEPPELL entries. I still don’t know why there were so many burials of Militia men in the early 1800s – but there were! They came from Essex and Lancashire as well as the local militia. Maybe I’ll find out sometime.
I noted that there were few HEPPELL entries, and this makes me wonder where my mum’s cousin’s clan emanated from. More research needed there! I’ve ordered a further microfilm – Baptisms at Monkwearmouth late C18 – early C19. It will probably be available to me in a few weeks time.
This week my younger son and I bought a laptop computer. I haven’t got to grips with it yet, but it looks very good, and should be useful on visits to records offices. Alex wants it for more meaningful reasons – to do with his course at Uni. I need to get my genealogy software installed, but there’s no immediate rush.
This was a quiet week for contacts with other researchers. They tend to come in fits and starts.
Time to sign off now, as I need to go off to earn a crust!
Geoff
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