Family History

If your ancestors are Scottish, then Scotland's People becomes the go to website. To keep the cost down, you can purchase cards in Scottish libraries that provide 60 credits at half the price they cost online. I often use ancestry.co.uk or findmypast.co.uk to get the basic index information and then my Scotland's People search is not random and costs fewer credits to identify the sought after certificate. Love this hobby.

I have never paid for any information, it's just loads of googling!   Parish churches sometimes put up records from centuries ago, these can help and usually free!  

If you want hard, yet easy in a way, my family fits that bill!  My mums side came from Circus and aviation, my dads side was market and flight.   Who would have relatives? Lol

The first part of the 1936 register search is free. I use FreeBMD a lot too.

Yes Bru, we have done the same over the past 14 years and have enjoyed it, not in the UK but Latvia. We have visited local town registry offices, churches, museums and have found some records and seen graves. It was a big problem due to language difficulties and nothing on line or computerised, so we contacted the Latvian National Archive office in Riga who were very good, they took a year to do a family search and went back to 1740 and it cost us £230.00, to us a good price. My wife’s father was born in Latvia and left in 1945.

We are going back again in March for our 13^th visit, this time we need to find 2 farms or remains and another grave! Yes, it is nice to find family, family friends and visit them, see houses / farms where they were born and lived, enjoy the country and learn about the history; in war, occupation and peace.

www.gravestonephotos.com is a completely free site.  You don't even need to register or log in.  

I saw an advert on the television to suggest that Ancestry.com are offering a free weekend this weekend.