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East Kent Families Database

The Bookshelf

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About Ancestry Solutions' Web Site

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This website is designed to supply you with the tools you may require now as well as in the future to successfully and easily trace your family lineage.  We endeavour to offer you the best information that we can to help you successfully research your family history.

As such, the information being delivered to you through this portal is complex in content and therefor, takes time to be developed properly.  Check our News page for information of the most recent updates to this site.  In the meantime, the site Table of Contents page has flagged as "Coming Soon" any sections of this site are not yet live to the internet but are in development.

Web Site Layout

Contact information, feedback,  search form and our News page are all directly accessible from the navigation bar running across the top of every page on this web site.  Also from that same navigation bar our Home page can be immediately accessed.

You will notice from our home page that the various sections of this web site have been categorized and arranged as a family pedigree or descendant chart.  The top row of the chart contains an icon for Ancestry Solutions, Research Services, Family Trails and Tutorials.  Hovering your mouse over each icon will trigger a hidden menu to appear from which you can click on specific items of interest.  Under the Ancestry Solutions icon you will find our corporate information such as our brochure, information about our company, my Curriculum Vitae, an index page to Company Happenings through which you can access our media notices, new publication releases and diary dates.  Also at this access point you will be able to view our Certificates of Appreciation acknowledging those who have inspired this site and contributed to its foundation and growth in many ways.  FAQs concerning our website can also be found here.  

Our genealogy and family history products and research services are to be found under the Research Services icon.  See the two additional sections, below, East Kent Families Database and The Bookshelf for additional information.  Family history research data of the Chamberlain, Young and Penny families all of whom are, in some manner, associated with Ancestry Solutions and it's owner, are to be found via the Family Trails icon.  The Tutorials icon leads one to access numerous tutorials concerning genealogy resources, as well as and how to use them, and methods used in a family history search.

The second row of the pedigree chart holds access icons to information and data that will assist you in planning and carrying our your research.  We have reference charts containing information concerning the census in Britain, Canada and the United States of America;  civil registration in Britain and Canada;  a guide to different types of records that one uses during a genealogy search;  a family relationship chart;  and more, all to be found by hovering your mouse over the Reference Charts icon.  These charts provide dates that are covered by specific records and what information you can expect to find in them.

Via the Research Planning icon one can access research planning aids for Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire, Warwickshire and Kent, England as well as a growing number of corrections to published genealogies, FAQs about genealogy and family history research, and website reviews where we review for you genealogy sites that requirement payment for access to data.  The corrections to published genealogies are a direct result of research conducted by this company for our research clients.  Some of the corrected genealogies currently appear on-line in Ancestry.com, Rootsweb and the Ancestral File segment of www.familysearch.org.  We will post a notice on our News page as our research efforts uncover more errors in published genealogies.  The various Research Planning Aids are set out in tabular format arranged alphabetically by the names of the parishes in the county.  Next to each parish is a series of columns designed to hold the dates of coverage for christenings and marriages on the I.G.I., the British Vital Record Index second edition, Boyd's Marriage Index and the dates and parishes of coverage found on the National Burial Index.  As each newly created Research Planning Aid is prepared and uploaded to this website, we will post a notice on our News page.  Not intended to be a truly critical analysis of various websites, our Website Reviews are focused on helping you navigate through various paid-for genealogy web sites and drawing your attention to aspects of a particular site of which you should be wary.

Lastly on the second row of our company family chart, under the Fun Puzzles icon you will find just that, several different sorts of puzzles all with a focus toward genealogy and family history research.  As time permits we will be adding more to the puzzle section.  I love puzzles, particularly logic puzzles and believe that these puzzles will help to keep your mind sharp and discerning and otherwise primed for solving those real life tough family history puzzles.

The lowest row of the home page chart is devoted to all of the fully free information that we have made available to you for your genealogy search. The information that can be accessed through the icons in this row of the pedigree will increase your knowledge of genealogy, in general; your knowledge of documents and access procedures; and, attempt to answer for you the typical questions relating to foreign languages and documents each person faces during a genealogy search.

The Calendars and Calculators icon will give you access to a soundex converter, a regnal year and roman numeral converters, and a calendar of Saints days and feast days.

The Dictionaries icon will lead you to a number of different purpose dictionaries.Some dictionaries have been added relating to specific areas of family history research such as the dictionaries for land, church and probate matters.  We also have on-line six foreign language dictionaries for Latin, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portugese.

The Directory icon will lead you to a genealogy address directory, where we have put on line for you over 800 addresses with links to the major archives, vital record offices, libraries and museums in Canada, the U.S.A., the British Isles and Europe.  Where known, email addresses and website URLs have been included with each listing.

The LDS Resources icon leads to that portion of this website that is devoted to helping the novice and more experienced researcher understand the systems of one of the largest private research libraries on-line today - the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A..  Included in this segment of this website are a quick reference chart of I.G.I. Batch Numbers and a table of the typical resources that will be found at many Family History Centres.  There are also 2 distinct FAQ sheets:  one related to questions about the I.G.I. and one related to questions about the Personal Ancestral File or PAF program produced by the Church.  Also here you will find an inventory list of the current holdings at the St. Catharines Family History Centre just in case you happen to be in the neighbourhood.

The Military icon and section of this web site are in their infancy.  We have on-line at this time a listing of every British Garrison station during 1813 and a resources list of abbreviations used by the Canadian military during WWI and found throughout the military records of that time.

Through the Miscellaneous icon one can access an online Bibliography or recommended reading list, a Glossary and extracts from antiquarian documents that have been found to be "up for sale" in dealer's catalogues and on various web sites throughout the world wide web.  We may not have the resources to secure the document but at least we can secure the family details contained in such documents.

East Kent Families Database

If you are researching ancestors in east Kent, England that you will definitely want to take a look at the index to the East Kent Families Database and at its' source list.  This is the first database in what will eventually evolve into a series of Families databases and published genealogies.  The East Kent Families Database and the planned projects for Ontario, Canada are very ambitious projects and will proceed at a slow pace.  As much as we would love to provide our databases as a free search, we are unable to do so.  In order for us to maintain the high level of integrity that was established at the outset of building our databases and in order for the work to continue, this aspect of our site can only exist if the work is supported through your subscription.  We do, however, have a free searchable index to surnames in the database.  We have also included a list of sources.  We have offered this portion of the database free to you so that you may be able to determine the likely existence of ancestral information as well as the level of reliability of the database information.

The Bookshelf

There are currently three Bookshelf pages.  The focus of these pages is on second-hand and antiquarian books and documents for which we have scoured second-hand book dealers, flea markets, yard and boot sales for perfectly useable but unwanted books and material of valuable genealogical and historical value.  Three examples of books currently on offer are:

• a hard-backed second edition of Johnston's Clan Histories concerning The Clan Campbell

• a paper-back first edition of Ronald Blythe's Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village

• a paper-back first edition of Waveney Valley Studies, Gleanings from Local History , and