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[linda_joyce]

Spent the evening on someone else's computer for once.

My cousin is trying to trace her family tree, her mother's line (Hook), we are related through her father, and keeps getting sidetracked on the UK 1901 on line census.

We didn't get anywhere with the Hooks.

However I am the inheritor of the the family home, 3 generations in the same house, and am the repository of birth, marriage and death certificates and thanks to finding our mutual Grand parents marriage certificate we think tracked down the mutual Great Grandfather we didn't know about before. Great excitement ensued.

On the other side of the family we have traced our family tree back to 1794 and there we are stopped dead by an elopement. No records we don't know where or even if they actually got married, they just went away and came back saying they were.

Trying to get further in this line is one of my 'When I retire' things to do.

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[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

Oh I've been doing that too! We found a skeleton in the family cupboard - an spinster aunt who had a young sister - turns out the sister was actually her daughter! Shock horror! I love it - it's really addictive. Have you tried the Mormon site? They have lots of info. If you want I'll try to dig out the addie.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Tried that back in 1976 when I first went into Newport Ref to work and they had it on micro fiche, which they still have. I have been trying it periodically ever since, especially since it's gone on line. The problem is the Mormon index only lists those names listed in parish and chapel registers they were allowed to copy and some vicars were not co-operative.

And there is also the problem that places you could elope to in the 1790s, Gretna Green, the Fleet prison and other debtors prisons where penniless clergy were often locked up, weren't very good at keeping records anyway.

We have a 'scandal' like yours in our family too and much closer. I was very surprised to find an uncle of mine was actually my cousin.