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== Where == | == Where == | ||
'''Where''', your relative landed after they left England can point to the | '''Where''', your relative landed after they left England can point to the ancestral home. Most people migrated to places where they had a connection they could go to like a townsman or relative. Immigration to New Zealand might be easier because the because it is a smaller county and there seems be a shorter time period to evaluate. If your ancestor went to Finland then recognizing the genealogical phrases in English is helpful. You do not have to be able to be fluent in the language of your ancestors to find the correct Surname, but it helps if you just have to look in the right place to have success. So preparing and clues are important. | ||
The records to search that could help are immigration and emmigration records. Ancestral homes clues be listed in childrens birth and christening records, obituaries, cemetery records, on a marriage license. In the United States parents birth places are listed on Social Security applications so you might get lucky and the place might be named by town or County. | The records to search that could help are immigration and emmigration records. Ancestral homes clues be listed in childrens birth and christening records, obituaries, cemetery records, on a marriage license. In the United States parents birth places are listed on Social Security applications so you might get lucky and the place might be named by town or County. | ||
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'''When''', your relative left England is a clue to where your family is from. The industrial revolution left many English with out incomes so they had no choice but to leave and they went to area that hard workers were employed. People left England also because of religious views; Puritans, Quakers, and the Mormons and other groups left at various time periods. Each religous group had known township pockets where their followers lived before they left England. The information can be researched by looking at the history of these religions. | '''When''', your relative left England is a clue to where your family is from. The industrial revolution left many English with out incomes so they had no choice but to leave and they went to area that hard workers were employed. People left England also because of religious views; Puritans, Quakers, and the Mormons and other groups left at various time periods. Each religous group had known township pockets where their followers lived before they left England. The information can be researched by looking at the history of these religions. | ||
The Later Day Saints have early mission records that have personal membership information. Very early LDS immigrants were | The Later Day Saints have early mission records that have personal membership information. Very early LDS immigrants were organized into travel groups and plans had to made to guide thousands of new members the United States so this the research may lead you to research the journals of early LDS members and the LDS information web sites and records. The new member records have been very important records to keep track of in the LDS Church. | ||
Most English Church parish records and township records made note of people leaving the area because the responsiblity to support poor parish members was removed when the person left the parish in different time periods. | Most English Church parish records and township records made note of people leaving the area because the responsiblity to support poor parish members was removed when the person left the parish in different time periods. | ||