Connectivity issues (General)

by Roger Griffiths , Saturday, March 16, 2013, 16:30 (4272 days ago) @ Jefff

Even today, the IGI/LDS is the best thing since sliced bread. It was always known that it was not complete or totally accurate. I used the 1988, but revisions since have added a great deal. I'm stuck in the early 1700's in Monmouthshire, but when I was spending a lot of time at the Registrars in London getting back to 1837, I noticed the professional genealogists were often carrying the little printouts from IGI.

They have Family History Centres around the UK. When I lived in North Hampshire, I used to go to the FHC Reading, Berks. They had a mass of records, including the 1851 Census for most or all of the FoD. The volunteers were very pleasant and helpful and I don't remember it costing anything. This was 10 years ago or more.

This very positive experience went all the way back to Salt Lake City. I wrote to them, always got helpful replies and they used to only charge less than 50p for copies of items from their records.

Sometimes, if you're really lucky, your family might jump off 2 or 3 pages from early years to 1837. Just out of interest I followed a line from a married couple from my wider family who resided in Redbrook and died in the 1860's and 1870's and are buried in All Saints, Newland. The male line went back to Wedmore, Somerset in the 1500's.