New 3rd great grandfather

Found John Jackson, abt 1800.  Wonderful things the London Marriage Banns...

1911 Census

This is a somewhat belated post because the subscription to the 1911 data was a Christmas present to myself. What a fantastic dataset though. findmypast.co.uk (and whoever transcribed it for them and sorted the search engine) are to be commended. It has been so much easier to find people than all of the previous systems I have used for earlier data. I particularly like the ability to search for two people that you think are at the same address, it so speeds up the sifting through records for people with common names (is there any other sort?).

But the 'piece de resistance', nothing to do with the transcribers, was the CSO's decision to ask (a) how long married women had been married and (b) how many children they had had and how many were surviving. I appreciate that this was an additional cost to gather and really was a luxury, but how brilliant it is for we genealogists. Of course it is as flaky as any other data item on the form, as I have found; but it is a great pointer to whether you have researched hard enough all the children or made a mistake and included two families into one.

11266 people in my tree

Over 2000 different names are now in the tree with the top 25 listed below. I have had to go as far as #25 to include Soane, which must suggest the Soane's are less inclined or able to have children...

1 Law 171

2 Paine 165

3 Bamblett 133

4 Gower 119

5 Robinson 117

6 Shilling 114

7 Frye 107

8 Hall 100

9 Summerell 99

10 King 98

11 Batten 93

12 Coltelli 91

13 Bannister 85

14 Ridgers 84

15 Giorgi 84

16 Barnard 83

17 Knight 82

18 Apps 79

19 Watson 75

20 Garratt 72

21 Back 72

22 Davis 66

23 Baker 66

24 Soane 61

25 Ward 60

56 linked contacts

Today I worked out how many people I have encountered through Genes Reunited that are in my tree - at least 56 is the answer

7000 milestone

Thanks to a load of successful hints from ancestry.com, this milestone was passed today.

Rentons

Worked today on the Stockport Rentons thanks to Keith.

Giorgi

I pieced together more of this branch today some from Jane and Annmarie's material and some from UK BDM and census records, so I now have 74 individuals, pulling them up meteorically into ninth spot after languishing in 31st place last week.

So the top ten names are:
Law 165; Paine 155; Frye 107; Summerell 100; Hall 91; Ridgers 83; Coltelli 82; Batten 79; Giorgi 74; Apps 73.