Family Tree Frog

Picture by Enrique Mesequer from Pixabay I don't know about you, but sometimes I forget to take my own advice.  I am now looking after my family history society's Facebook page and lots of interesting information gets passed on to me to share with our members.  I'm so busy posting, I forget to follow up some of the leads myself! This week Find My Past released more records, one of which leapt out at me; namely Devon Burials .  My husband's ancestors come from Devon: the Daws, the Ansteys, the Ellises and the Chambers. That's the surnames.  What about the Christian names and places? ANSTEY Elizabeth - Bradninch, mother of Mary Anstey (1796-?) - nothing leaping out in terms of results Mary - Bradninch  (1822-1868) married Thomas DAW Snr (113 results for Mary DAW none in Bradninch) - can't find any results that look like her. Thomas - Hockworthy (1787-?)  CHAMBERS Mary - mother of Mary Bray Ellis - here is where I went off the track.....I find a Mary Ellis wh...

Goodrington Sands, Devon by Julian Walker on Flickr Good Intentions How has your day been? I've been doing a bit of tidying up. It was not my intention to do any research today.  It was my intention to work on my Family History software program and a bit of filing.  Surname and Chapman Code Lists But I ended up trying to clean my overflowing email inbox.  And that led to me realising that while I had submitted my surname interests to my family history society years and years ago, I hadn't re-submitted them to put on the Society's website.  So I started to fill out the forms which led me to realise that there was one particular ancestor on my husband's family tree for whom we lacked biographical info; namely where she was born. Namely Mary Bary Daw nee Ellis. Search Again! Now I am sure that I have tried to research her before but you know the old adage, go back and check those pesky databases again because new information may have been added.  So that is exactl...