Can someone help with my genealogy?

Question

can someone help me research my ancestors i'm struggling quite badly

Answer 1

First of all, Ancestry.com is not a genealogy service.  They will not DO your genealogy for you; however, they have some resources that MIGHT help you.  Second, there are some good genealogists on this board that are quite capable of helping you with questions provided that you know what it is that you are looking for.  When putting out a request for help, you need to be specific about what you are looking for.  You can't just ask for your whole genealogy back 12 generations complete with sources.  It just doesn't work that way.  Genealogy is like an extreme puzzle and when you are researching, you are lucky if you can find one or two new things each time you  research.  

So, my recommendation would be to formulate a question and let everyone know what you have found so far.  Too many people post questions with out giving out the backgroud information... more specifically full names, places, and time frames.  No detail is too insignificant in a genealogy puzzle!!

Answer 2

Post the names you are struggling with and someone here can help you.

Answer 3

You did mean 1868 didn't you?

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983

1895 Apr-May-Jun    Greenwich  Greater London, Kent, London  

Edwin Henry Debnam

Maria Higgins Letchford

Could be her family?

1881 England Census

Name: Maria Litchford

Age: 14  

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867  

Relation: Daughter  

Father's Name: William

Mother's Name: Mary

Gender: Female

Where born: Dartford, Kent, England

Civil Parish: Gillingham  

County/Island: Kent  

Country: England  

Street address: Gillingham Lane

Registration district: Medway  

Sub registration district: Gillingham  

ED, institution, or vessel: 3  

Household Members: Name Age Birth place / Occupation

Mary Litchford 49  Wife b. Waldershare, Kent

William Litchford 46  Head b. Aylesford, Kent Occupation:  Gen'l Labouer

Harry Litchford 19  Son b. Pimlico, Middlesex / Carter

Maria Litchford 14  Daughter b. Dartford, Kent

Hariett Jackson 72  Aunt b. Aylesford, Kent  /: Late Lodging House Keeper

Rowland Hill 2  New Brompton, Kent (relation not specified)

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index 1837 - 1983

William Henry Letchford 1842 Apr-May-Jun    North Aylesford  Kent

Answer 4

You can't do that for FREE... you have to PAY for real genealogy services like www.ancestry.com

Answer 5

the standard setup here at yahoo answers is to POST YOUR QUESTION on the board, to give everyone an opportunity to offer help to you.  It is not fair to persons to ask you to look at your files on another site.

The more people who SEE your problem, the better your odds that someone will be able to find the info.  Try to break it down to a specific problem (person) and include a location and estimated dates.

Answer 6

This is really not the right way to go about it.  Like Wendy and HSK said, you need to ask a specific question.  What you are doing is a "blanket" request for someone to basically look at your tree and do it for you by filling in all the blanks.  What you NEED to do is to post each issue in its own question on here and deal with it one step / problem at a time, such as:

"Need help finding g-g-g-grandfather Joe Bob, born about 1840 in Oklahoma.  Was living in Arkansas at one time.  Can't find who his parents were.  He had a brother named Jim Bob and married a woman named Susie Q.  Please help me find his parents".

If you do that, you will get much more success on here from multiple people who have a variety of resources.

Answer 7

could this be her?

Name: Maria LETCHFORD

s*x: F

Birth: ABT 1845 in Swanscombe, Kent

Change Date: 20 APR 2006 at 23:55:15

Father: Aaron LETCHFORD b: ABT 1811 in Meopham, Kent

Mother: Ann b: ABT 1812 in Eynsford, Kent

Marriage 1

Married: BET APR 1876 AND JUN 1876 in Dartford, Kent*

Change Date: 20 APR 2006