Genealogy site

I have a whole folder of stuff I'd printed out about four years ago. Some
has it changed it's name or something?

MCC...

Changed its address ~~Linda~~

~~Linda~~...

Ah! Which just links to ancestry.com which I have a month subscription to
(well two weeks left, time flies)

Thanks Mike. Are you still hunting for people or have you done as much as
you can? I still feel I spend half the time going round in circles but it's
fun. Frustrating... when you know someone 'should' be there but you can't
find them.... but still fun.

Gareth...

I've been doing mine for over twenty years and I'm still finding
distant cousins. Not only that, people are born, get married/divorced,
die, so there's always new stuff to enter. Also with more sites and
information coming online it's surprising what else may crop up.

Genealogy isn't a thing that'll just take a couple of weeks to enter a
bunch of names and dates, there's much more to it than that.

~~Linda~~...

Lol, I know it's going to take years and there will always be more to find
but the initial outline is proving pretty exciting at the moment. As I
said, I did start about four years ago but at the time, time and funds
meant that I couldn't continue. Even in that time, I'm amazed at what is
freely available online, if you're prepared to put in the effort.

Try to find out where they lived, what schools they went to, what work
they did, what hobbies they had, where they went during the wars and in
which battles they fought, what illnesses they had and how they died,
did they have any criminal convictions etc.; 'that' is your family
history - the names and dates are only the outline part of it.

I find online photos of the churches where couples married too and
enter those pics into the family tree under the marriage section.

~~Linda~~...

I'm starting to amass loads of photo's, screenshots and clippings. Part of
each 'session' is spent looking for new information and part trying to
organise what I've already got, before I forget where it all came from.
All the new stuff is getting entered straight away, with links and
printouts where necessary, so I don't get lost again! :-)

MCC...

Oh! I'm still hunting but among the rellies that are descended from a great
uncle who legged it to New Zealand to be a New Zealander.

~~Linda~~...

I had to read that twice and then wondered what would have happened if he'd
gone to Australia instead ;-)

I found two of his sons had died during WW1, one at Gallipoli and one at
Passchendaele. Of course I started reading web pages about those battles
and got completely sidetracked :-)

~~Linda~~...

It can be quite moving when you discover facts like that... I admit to a
few tears the other night trying to imagine what it must have been like.
I definitely recognise the bit about getting sidetracked! :-)

Now at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/

pmj...

Well that *HostName* exists OK...

It Resolves to an IP Address of...

193.113.180.165

~~Linda~~...

But that Server doesn't seem to respond.

All I got, when I tried it just now, was a Socket Error 10060, which is:
"WSAETIMEDOUT (10060) Connection timed out."

A connect or send request failed because the connected party did not
properly respond after a period of time. (The timeout period is
dependent on the communication protocol.)

User suggestions: Check the obvious first: check that the destination
address is a valid IP address. If you used a hostname, did it resolve
to the correct address? If the hostname resolution uses a local host
table, it's possible you resolved to an obsolete address. Can you ping
that hostname?
Do you have a router configured? Is the router up and running (check
by pinging it, and then ping an address on the other side of it)? Try
a traceroute to the destination address to check that all the routers
are functioning.
Check your subnet mask. If you don't have the proper subnet mask,
your network system may treat a local address as a remote address
(so it forwards addresses on the local subnet to the router, rather
than broadcasting an ARP request locally), or visa versa.

Try it again later?
That's if you can't find out if it's been moved to another Server.

~~Linda~~...

Well,I'd tried it earlier when I was sorting through my papers and then
again just now but knew that one of the genealogists in here would probably
know, so was just being lazy really.

Gareth...

Yup, the government keep changing their web site names. :-(

Try here...

~~Linda~~...

Thanks Gareth... I've added them to my bookmarks but at quick glance, can't
do much there that I can't do with my paid sub to ancestry.com and the IGI
and Free BMD? Although sometime when someone is proving particularly
awkward, I go round all of them!

Gareth...

That 1901 census only shows you the indexed results unless you pay. As
you have access to Ancestry at the moment it's best that you use
that... BUT it's always handy to look at other sites because you'll get
different transciptions and if you cannot find an ancestor on one site,
look on the other.