Findern Away

At last progress. The Findern BBM, Family, and Gravestone data plus the Findern Tree is now on  nons. I must thank Joan Walke & Aaron Stanway who did most of the work. I'm in their debt. Next up Norton

Carlton project

Finished the Carlton Genealogy project and forwarded it to the school. Lets see what happens. Tomorrow  its back to the day job - Needhams

Plenty of Activity but not on my Blog

1. Have been through all the Derbyshire Wills (as a first cut) and are now assimilating the info into the trees and data bases

• Started with Derby and been able to sort out at least one tree dating back to the 17th century. Should be on the web soon.
• Arising from this I've had a lot of help from Joan W and Aaron S and sorted out the Needham's of Findern. Joan is from North America but she had the definitive parish records and pictures of gravestones from the graveyard in Findern. They will be shortly going on the website

 2. John S has been a great help in going through his records and providing/updating parish records. It's quite humbling what help people give you

3. I've started pulling together a local history project for primary schools based on the history of the school in the village I live (built in 1832) and census data for the village from 1851 to 1901. Children will be asked to fill in a census form themselves so that data now can be compared with that generated in 1851 and 1871 (by a local study group in the 1970's). They will also analyse the 1901 census

4. Family Tree Maker is now up and working so I can generate up to date trees and put them on the website

5. Spent 10 days watching the World Athletics. OK it's not genealogy but it was great seeing so many world class athletes including Blot and Mo.

Lets Go

1. Made progress with the wills. Started a Findern tree based on wills - see Ancestry
2. Integrated all the will data that I can for Derby into Derby 3  on Ancestry. More to come
3. Will update correspondence (oun) over the weekend (promise)

Progress? Lots of it.

A lot has happened in the last few days;
1. I've converted my DNA data into the ISOGG halpgroup and entered it into GEDMatch. There are 2000 plus matches but they are all weak ie 3/5 cousins. I've contacted a couple without much luck
2. Converted my tree into something much simpler form so that I can send out with letter on DNA matches
3. Lots of correspondence  that I've answered. Will summarise tomorrow
4. Continued integrating Derby will info into trees. A long job.
5. Taken out Norton 4 tree from website as it is in error. There is a big question mark over a baptism of Joseph Needham 22 Mar 1846 f Joseph m Mary at Norton that is in SI website but nowhere else. There is a bap of a Joseph same day same place f Henry m Mary. Looks as if it may be a transcription error. Need to check PR's

Derby Wills

Started integrating the Derby  wills into the BBM &  family data. It's sorted somethings but like Castleton it's opened others up. Will   carry on   regardless

Castleton Trees

1.Castleton suite of trees now updated and on line. Also updated the Castleton origins page. But there are unknowns so beware