ISBN 0-517-538458
I started reading this book in Sept 2006. It is an autobiography of a person who lived in Cornwall. I found it quite a difficult book to get into. However, what I did find enjoyable was all the mention of names in the family, their characteristics, where they lived and the life in the village.
Then in the second chapter I think, the author mentioned when his father was born, and I thought it would be interesting to look it up in a genealogy site on the net. So I used the site I go to when I start a search :
There I looked up the person by putting in his name, country being England and county being Cornwall. Up came information on him as I had done a global search. Since I do not have a subscription to this site I could only access the free information. So I went to the 1901 census. I looked at all the Richard Rowses there and saw one with a wife called Annie. From reading the book I thought this would be the right one, since the census details came from St Austell.
On viewing the details I could see that this was indeed the correct person, and showed two siblings of the author, but not the author himself.
More reading of the book gave me more information to check on in a similar way on this site. I now have found all the grandparents of the author and four of the great-grand-parents of the author.
Added to this I have information on the off-spring of some of the grand-parents.
Another interesting fact is that the charactistics of the family members are there in the book... their looks, their temperaments! Something you don't get from research!!
The tree is growing as I read the book! The people who are related to this tree are lucky in that they know these facts, these characteristics.
Memo to myself: when putting information in on relatives, ADD their characteristics and temperament if known!
Sites that might be helpful when researching trees:
The multi-map site will allow you to see if the places you have come up with in the census or Birth, Marriage, or death Index etc are viable. If they are at the opposite end of the country, then they might not be the record you are looking for!
I use AncestorHunt.com when I have got no leads from the Ancestry.com site.
The census page above is really useful. Once you have found the family you are looking for (eg. 1881 search for Richard Rowse) then go to the top right hand part of the page, click on HOUSEHOLD. You will see who lives in the house at this time. Then go to the top right hand part of the page and look at previous households (you can keep clicking and see many many households,) and do the same with NEXT household. This way you will get to see many of the names that are mentioned in this autobiography!
I hope the information on this page is helpful to you when you are researching YOUR family tree. More help might be gained from going to