"Heald UK" website now back on-line
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"Heald UK" website now back on-line
The "Heald UK" website is now back on the net, at:
http://www.jpm1.freeserve.co.uk/heald_uk/
At the heart of the site is an attempt to track the Heald surname throughout the UK, via alphabetical birth and marriage indexes, and county-by-county family-by-family chronological event indexes, cross-referencing together data from various sources, including: the IGI; the LDS Ancestral File; the UK Censuses of 1851, 1881 and 1901; parish register transcriptions; the LDS British Vital Records CDs (2nd ed); the GRO indexes from FreeBMD; county register indexes from CheshireBMD, LancashireBMD and YorkshireBMD; and individual family trees.
A couple of caveats: firstly, hardly any work has been done on the pages since February, so there's now quite a lot more information not yet included available from the county register indexes and FreeBMD; also I may also have missed about 2% of the entries from the IGI, so this extraction is not quite completely comprehensive. You should also be aware that the standard of proof for consolidating the data from different sources together into each record is 'best current guess' -- not every consolidation or birth/marriage link that I made is necessarily to be trusted 100%. My assumptions may not be correct, so should be thoroughly checked, or at least treated with some caution.
Nevertheless, I hope that what is there may be at least of some use.
Those (like me) who are without broadband and atill using a dial-up modem; or who are likely to be interested in the pages for C19 Yorkshire and Lancashire (which are very big), may prefer to download the whole content of the site as a zip file from:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/j.heald/heald_uk.zip
The pages can then be unpacked to your own hard drive using eg winzip http://www.winzip.com , and browsed much more quickly.
I'm going to be pretty much away from the net now until January.
But the next update of the site (with luck) should be some time early in the New Year, so any and all contributions and suggestions would be very welcome!
All best regards and seasonal wishes,
James Heald
http://www.jpm1.freeserve.co.uk/heald_uk/
At the heart of the site is an attempt to track the Heald surname throughout the UK, via alphabetical birth and marriage indexes, and county-by-county family-by-family chronological event indexes, cross-referencing together data from various sources, including: the IGI; the LDS Ancestral File; the UK Censuses of 1851, 1881 and 1901; parish register transcriptions; the LDS British Vital Records CDs (2nd ed); the GRO indexes from FreeBMD; county register indexes from CheshireBMD, LancashireBMD and YorkshireBMD; and individual family trees.
A couple of caveats: firstly, hardly any work has been done on the pages since February, so there's now quite a lot more information not yet included available from the county register indexes and FreeBMD; also I may also have missed about 2% of the entries from the IGI, so this extraction is not quite completely comprehensive. You should also be aware that the standard of proof for consolidating the data from different sources together into each record is 'best current guess' -- not every consolidation or birth/marriage link that I made is necessarily to be trusted 100%. My assumptions may not be correct, so should be thoroughly checked, or at least treated with some caution.
Nevertheless, I hope that what is there may be at least of some use.
Those (like me) who are without broadband and atill using a dial-up modem; or who are likely to be interested in the pages for C19 Yorkshire and Lancashire (which are very big), may prefer to download the whole content of the site as a zip file from:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/j.heald/heald_uk.zip
The pages can then be unpacked to your own hard drive using eg winzip http://www.winzip.com , and browsed much more quickly.
I'm going to be pretty much away from the net now until January.
But the next update of the site (with luck) should be some time early in the New Year, so any and all contributions and suggestions would be very welcome!
All best regards and seasonal wishes,
James Heald