General Chat

all the siblings of your ancestors?

yes and no

explain Keith

i get the certs of some siblings of some ancestors

It's great to meet a decisive man who knows his own mind!

Sue x

how do you choose which ones to order Keith?

I tend to be the same as Allan except for one of my grandparent's siblings who died very young and I was curious.

No. At the moment I'm only interested in the direct line.

iF they're blood relatives I add them to my tree.
So yes, i order their certs if i need them as confirmation for one thing or another. Unfortunately I can't afford to get them just to collect them!!! I wish!! LOL.

K

Wish I could afford to order them all
But cant

No SRS, just a few, to clear up any query I may have.
Julia in Derbyshire

no Lesley i dont

unless i have a problem or mystery to solve

but direct lines yes i think i have all of them
apart from a few death certs that have alluded my searches

i put them on my hubby credit card
and when he asks what this one for
i say
ooooh that was some make up i needed
he falls far it every time
even when i ordered 10 at a time bless him

No, just couldn't afford it. Sometimes I'm forced to for the information or to prove identity but mostly I have to rely on BMDs, census and wills and of course PRs.

I wonder if the price of certs was halved, would people actually order more.
Somehow I can justify buying certs at £3.50, more than I can at £7 a throw, so in the long haul, I'd have ordered a lot more. Meaning, also, that the GRO and records offices would make a lot more money.
Does that make sense?

K

No, I don't buy all the siblings certs.but I have usually got a record of their baptisms from parish registers when we've visited various record offices.
Often I've got marriage information in the same way, for families who 'stayed put'.

Gwyn

Lesley thank you for putting up this thread
it reminded me of a puzzle i had
and i decided to take another look
as the tees vally index had been updated
i had often wondered why my dad
only one brother and no other siblings
and put this down to his dad been a sailor
away for long periods
i knew my grandmother had triplets
three girls that died preterm
so i checked again and found a sister who died age two
and a brother that i knew nothing of also who died young

in the census for 1901 my grandfather was in his grandmothers household with two other children who were noted as grandchildren, so I sent for their birth certs and so learned they were infact his cousins. So Yes I do if I have any uncertainty but not generally

So far I have resisted, although theirs one sibling of a great grandparent my whose parentage is questionable and I am tempted.

Luckily on a few branches I have ended up in contact with descendants of siblings so have swapped copies of certs for my branch with what they have for theirs, saved a small fortune doing this.

I do wish they would digitise them, then again maybe its not the best idea, considering how many more I would probably buy if it just took a click or two to get the information I want.

sometimes it helps if you have to "branch" out in order to break down a wall x