Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

I know about our Liverpool ones like Toxteth Park etc and other locals. But what about world wide? Which is your site of preference if you were going to upload photos or details?

I know now that Find A Grave is owned by Ancestry and that's where a Friend of Anfield Cemetery uploaded a photo and details he had kindly taken of my grandfather's gravestone.

Deceased Online is calling itself the central UK database but it's a subscribed site.

Then there's that other one where you have to download an app to take photos with GPS tracking.

Are there many others and why can't they all just merge into one?

My preference is to upload grave photos on my own websites.


Blue

I'm not as clever as you Blue and I don't have my own websites!!! I did see your Holland website a while ago as it was recommended on a Liverpool page (is that yours too? )s but I didn't make a connection at the time, when are you doing a page on the Athertons? Your site is really good BTW and very informative with all the maps, etc.

Anyway these are pics I snapped as I've been going along but not my family, I think I'll continue to put them on Find A Grave as even though people have to pay for Ancestry the information on Find A Grave is free.

That Deceased Online seems to working hand in hand with local councils but those I've looked at seem to be quite recentish and not much I'd be interested in, PLUS I am forking out enough these days!!

Weebly is easy to use and I'm sure there are other free websites around that are similar. Find A Grave looks like a good free resource. I'm happy that there is a variety of free resources online it would be too easy to have one central search facility it's good to have the challenge of remembering where to search for things.


Blue

I did look at Weebly after looking at your website, but my stuff is too scattered at the moment, maybe one day............

Yes a fair point about a challenge though sometimes it feels like an obstacle!!

A short while ago I would have suggested that your internet provider should have allowed you webspace for your own site, however Virgin is about to renege on that and suggesting we take up the free 12 months offer from GoDaddy - at a saving of near enough £60, it would seem that will be the cost in future years!!

Do you have a website too Mary?

It won't be there much longer http://luntfamilyhistory.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

And bear in mind it's for my own and family's pleasure rather than informative like Blue's

Hi
Really enjoyed reading your site Mary. I grew up just behind Deysbrook Lane. Thought i would mention the link to Tony Swarbricks site does not work. I googled him and could not get on it that way either.
Wish more people would put links on as i find them fascinating to read and it helps to see what everyone has done.
Lin

Wow that's a great webpage Mary, really interesting!! I've only read one page so far about the Lunt's and Coward's of Ulverston. That is some will and inventory you have there!!

If you know where any of them are buried in Ulverston or elsewhere in this area I'll be happy to go and take some photo's for you as I live quite near there. I noticed some graves at Cartmel Priory have people from Ulverston buried there, I was there last weekend taking photo's which started this whole thread off!!

lin wrote:Hi
Thought i would mention the link to Tony Swarbricks site does not work. I googled him and could not get on it that way either.

Sadly I am aware of that, he gave me so much help but then vanished off the face of our group. I just haven't updated the website for quite a long time.

BarbaraW wrote:I've only read one page so far about the Lunt's and Coward's of Ulverston.

The Luke Lunt who married Isabella Coward proved not to be my line - read about My Big Mistake and you will see why, so although I'm interested in many Liverpool Lunts, to actually branch out into the Cowards of Ulverston is probably taking things a bit too far now I have proved the mistake, but thanks for the offer.

Aww what a shame just when I was powering up my camera battery.

As I know there was a removal order for the family either from or to Urmston (can't remember which now) I'm suspecting there wouldn't have been money for a headstone for them. You might come across one for Samuel Coward the hairdresser, as he had enough left to leave a Will (under £300 in 1878) I think he might have one but don't go especially to search for it.

These are my family history websites:-

http://albach.webs.com

http://hollandfamilyhistory.weebly.com

http://mylchreest.weebly.com

http://liverpool1767.webs.com


Blue

Can I ask why the four different sites Blue? obviously to separate separate families, but you could have done that all on one website, is it because of space constraints?

I wanted to try to keep it as simple as possible focusing more on record images than text. I like to separate family lines or generations and give them each a page. I didn't want to have too many pages. I could have made it more complicated but it might have confused some of my contacts. There's parts of my tree that I wanted online to centralise information, share with others and to make contact with other researchers. There's other parts of my tree that don't flow as well as histories so I haven't covered them online. The fourth one "1767" is more for others to use although there is a mention on it of my Brookfield family.


Blue

Very interesting. I am personally interested in the RC site as I've only quite recently found the Quicks were Catholic but I'm not back that far yet so I have bookmarked it and hope to return to it.

I'll be interested to see the progression of the sites.

This day in 1853 (163 years ago) my German great, great grandmother aged 5 years arrived in England the family travelled by ship from the port of Rotterdam to Grimsby.


Blue

Now Joyce, (Liverpool Group Secretary, Society President and fount of all knowledge so far as most of us are concerned) often talks about how she's looked into immigrants coming from various points in Europe to land on those shores, then possibly over the next few years made their way to Liverpool with the intention of continuing their journey to America. Many of them stayed here.