Research
Why?
Who are your ancestors, what are your origins, where are your roots. Are you curious to know and understand your background. Family connections are what makes you who you are. Are you ready to unravel your family secrets? At time to connect family history research isn’t just about a list of your ancestors with names and dates, it’s about finding out and learning how your ancestors lived.
Who did they live with?
- How many in the family?
- How many siblings did your ancestor have?
- Did they marry?
- How many children?
- Were they looking after an elderly relative?
- Did they share the house with other families?
What did they do?
- Were they employed, employers, working at home?
- Were they unskilled or skilled workers?
- Was there a family business?
- Is the occupation a family tradition?
- Are they listed in a Trade Directory?
- Did they serve in the Armed Forces?
Where did they live?
- Were they city dwellers?
- Or village inhabitants?
- How big/small was their accommodation?
- Did they move around the country?
- Stay put for generations?
- Were they living in a house, the work house, an instituation?
When did they live?
- When were they born?
- Was the country at war?
- Who was the Monarch
- Who was the Prime Minister
- When did they die?
How did they live
- What were the surrounding social conditions?
- Could they read and write
- How many people in the household were earning?
- Are they relying on the parish for support?
This information on your ancestors is just waiting to be found.
Sources
There is a wealth of information available
- Family documentation/memorabilia
- Family stories
- Birth, Marriages and Death certificates
(from July 1837 to present day) - Parish records, many areas dating back to the 1600’s
- Census returns, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
- Trade directories, 1800’s to present day
- Electoral roles
- Newspapers, local and national
- Wills
- Probate records
- Poor accounts
- Institutional records
Where
time to connect will carry out research in all areas of England with specialist areas being Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. This is mainly due to the geographical location of the office and local experience of our senior researcher.