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New - searchable information
I've been using a package
called Genopro to draw my family tree
and display the information. You can use this to search for names and information
about my relatives and ancestors, I have done two separate reports.
One for my paternal ancestors and relatives:
the Jackson, Tuck, Buckminster,
Driscoll, Donovan, Wilmer and Tooig families and one for my maternal ancestors and relatives:
the Bartlett, Blundell, Chamberlain,
Morgan families.
Unless the information is already published elsewhere on the internet
(on genesreunited, for example) I have restricted
the information about living people to first names and year of birth only.
If full information is given on websites then I have included it. There
isn't a link on those pages to come back here - I don't know how to do that
yet.
Family trees
I'm still working on the
best way to put a family tree on here but till I do I have basic one (direct
ancestors only) for the Jacksons and for the Bartletts.
Background
Both my parents,
Jeremiah (Jerry) JACKSON and Rosina (Rosie)
BARTLETT grew up in the same street:
Cornwall Street in St George in the East,
(near, or part of, Stepney) in East London
in England. They were both the youngest children of
large families. This meant that I had lots of aunts and
uncles and literally dozens of cousins (my parents claimed
there were over a hundred)
Unfortunately,
by the time I was born all my grandparents had died and so had several
of my aunts, uncles and even cousins. Others
had moved far away. So I knew only a handful of my
large family and could not even put
names to all my aunts and uncles. It was with the aim of naming
those aunts and uncles that I started the addictive
and time-consuming pastime of researching my family tree.
I had hoped to find some of my first cousins as well. I've
not managed that yet but have found some distant cousins with
whom I share great-grandparents. One lovely lady even
sent me a photograph of my grandmother - thank you, Mary!
I plan to
do separate trees and pages on this site for the Bartletts and
Jacksons - if you are descended from or related to either
of these east London families please look at the names
and dates and see if we might be related. If so, I'd
love to hear from you - especially if you can fill in any of my
'blanks'. Mail me at web.genes@jacqi.net
Census information
Information about the dates
on which each census was taken and what questions were asked can be found
on the census information page.
Cousins
First cousins, second cousins,
cousins so-many-times-removed. What does it all mean? For me, my cousins
are my cousins, people related to me by blood. The levels of 'removal'
for cousins refer to whether or not they are the same generation - not
necessarily the same age as each other but whether you count back the
same number of 'great's to a common ancestor. A chart showing this
can be found on the 'cousins' page.
Research
My initial research was
done at the Family Records Centre in London where I looked through the
large indexes. Subsequently, much of it has been done on-line. A
list of links to the sites I use can be found on the links page.
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