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FAMILY DATABASE STATS
| Live Database Statistics: | |
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| People: | 1347 (255 Living) |
| Males: | 676 (50.19%) |
| Females: | 670 (49.74%) |
| Unknown: | 1 (0.07%) |
| Families: | 455 |
| Number of Surnames: | 318 |
| Average Lifespan: | 64 years 164 days |
| Earliest Born: | Hamlet TOONE Born: ABT 1554 |
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Hallam, Crowder, Wilson, Harris and Lane, Crisp, Naylor, Downs
This website is dedicated to our ancestors, who mainly were born and bred in the East Midlands of England. Needless to say the families over the years, spread their wings and spread to Europe, the USA and to the southern hemisphere of new Zealand and Australia probably looking for a better life and prospects for their families.
I have researched and collected the family history / genealogy information over the years and have "linked" to many people around the world, who have helped to add those missing links and "wanted names". I could not of done this without their help and certainly without the help of other fellow genealogists, who are a great bunch of people and most helpfull. I would like to thank them all. Most of all, I would like to thank my family and relatives, particularly my wife Kate.
Research
The research information collected, is in most cases backed up with documentation, which have been sourced from many hours of work and driving around the UK visiting research establishments, such as county archives and record offices - particularly Nottingham, Derbyshire Matlock and Lincolnshire, also the National Archives at Kew London and many museums.
Lots of the initial research came obviously from the internet, though this was used for research only. Any information found has been backed up by hard documentation- not everything you see on the internet is correct! So please use it for research only - then get the real information, such as birth, marriage and death certificates to ensure it is correct.
Ramblings of a Genealogist
The research was a hard slog at times, but was great and really adictive - just like being a detective! Digging through hundreds, if not thousands of microfilms, searching for that missing name - Hallam, Wilson et all. Then back home realising that I should of looked at such and such census or parish record. I have at times ended up chasing a line of ancestors which I believed to by mine, only to find out 6 months, yes 6 hard months later, that they were nothing to do with my family. All because I was inexperienced and hasty and believed I did not need THAT birth certificate to prove the link. That person was mine. I was sure! Oh no he wasn't!
Then there are the ups, where you have got that little envelope on the entrance mat, to open and find that YES it is my ancestor. Confirmed. Then rush to update your records, dig through all the old information, update the Family Tree Maker program and update the family trees on the internet to share with everyone. Little things like knowing which way the census auditor went around his route to each house, as you have no home address number. Sad, but I have actually walked the way of the census guy, just to find the right house! Even sadder is that I have done this numerous times!
But the most enjoyable bit for me, was as we say "putting flesh on the bones" really finding out how your ancestors lived. I loved visiting the many cities, towns, villages and hamlets, the wonderfull and sad places my ancestors lived worked and played (and buried). Particularly so in the 1800 and 1900 hundreds. I have been amazed and enlightened on how they lived and survived - and not just my ancestors! I have visited the Somme in France and tracked where some of my ancestors fought and died. We visited numerous graves and was really physically and emotionally upset - over someone we never knew! But they were our family. This is more than genealogy research or family history, to me it has made me understand where I am from and made me appreciate where I am now.
The Hallams
There is a major section on the HALLAM name. This covers the origin and meaning of the HALLAM name. After many years or family research into the HALLAM's, I started collecting any information regarding any HALLAM name found - being found in census transcripts, parish registers, wills, polling records, prison records, pauper records and other documentation. I will be updating the site to include these relevant documented evidence so that you may find some useful information for your own research. If you have any Hallam information to add, please contact me with the details of your information.
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