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TheGenealogist cuts the cost of pinpointing your ancestors

TheGenealogist has been praised for its innovative tools that allow you to discover exactly where your ancestors lived, using Map Explorer™. This innovative feature has now been added to Gold and Starter level subscriptions.

Home of Joseph Chamberlain (father of the WW2 prime minister) found on the 1891 census in Map Explorer™

Census pins identify properties on Map Explorer™

Image Archive records located on Map Explorer™

From today, a significant number of databases including the 1891, 1901 and 1911 census, plus TheGenealogist’s Image Archive pictures and along with the Domesday Book 1086, are now available with pins on georeferenced maps in Map Explorer™. This makes Starter & Gold Subscriptions powerful resources for researchers to see where their forebears lived, as well as to investigate the neighbourhood and surrounding area. Accessing Map Explorer™ on a mobile allows researchers to walk in the footsteps of ancestors and discover where homes, schools, places of work and other buildings may once have stood but have now disappeared.

This interface will place a pin on the house using historical data to identify its location where possible or if not, the street or parish on an appropriate map of the area connected to the record. As this resource makes use of a number of historical and modern maps matching the same precise coordinates, Starter & Gold subscribers are in a much better position to see where their ancestors had once lived even if the area has now changed.

To find out what’s included in the discounted Starter and Gold subscriptions go to www.thegenealogist.co.uk/PRTGAUG22

To read about using the Census collection, Image Archive and Domesday Book 1086 linked to mapping for an area recently in the news see our article: Mapping the records from a PM’s house to the Conqueror’s Manor

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2022/mapping-the-records-from-a-pms-house-to-the-conquerors-manor-1604/

How to start your family tree video

If you want to know how to start your family tree then here is a really useful video in which FeeBee shows you how to get started building your tree and also shares a great way to keep organised at the same time. Hope you enjoy it! Links used in this episode: http://TreeView.co.uk http://TheGenealogist.co.uk/Roots1

"Hi I'm FeeBee in in this video up explaining how to get started in the fascinating world a family history the first step is to write down everything you already know about yourself and your immediate family when where were you born? Who were your parents?

Include dates and places of birth where known, next about you extended family, who were your grandparents and where did they live? Again, if you have dates of birth this will help you later on. Once you have the basic information ask any living relatives what they know or remember. You may find some research has already been done on a tree or they may be a collection of memorabilia documents or photographs that someone is willing to share with you the next step is to put this information into a tree builder.

I use TreeView because I can access it anywhere has lots of charting options and

best of all it's free.

Let's begin entering the information to TreeView. Start with yourself and then add your parents. Continue up the tree this way until you have entered all the information you have gathered. You can then look what you've entered so far and see which individuals have information missing such as names, dates the birth marriage and death places, events have taken place and so on. To fill in this missing information you should start looking at birth marriage and death and census records.

There are lots of web sites that can help you with your research.

I use TheGenealogist they have a free trial available at TheGenealogist.co.uk/Roots1

First try searching the census they should give you ages which you can use to find

approximate dates of birth. Using this information you can then search on the birth certificate index and so your research begins. Although it can be exciting to uncover many different branches of the tree bear in mind it is often easier to concentrate your search one direct line at a time.

To recap, firstly gather what information you can buy talking to your living relatives

and start to input this information into to a tree builder as this will help keep you organized.

Look into birth marriage and death and census records as the next step in adding information to what you already have.

Thanks for watching this episode of RootsForum

I hope you enjoyed this video. If you like this video and would like to see more go to YouTube.com/RootsForum and hit subscribe if you have any questions ideas for the videos

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