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Have any of you heard of this? This is cool! It's a census (incomplete apparently) from 1085.http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/There's a lot of good links on thesite too.
I have heard of the doomsday vault 😉 and yes, I have heard of the Domesday Book….I thought we had a thread on it somewhere around here but I guess I'm mistaken. Thanks for the link….looks like a cool site to explore.
I”ve seen the Domesday book! when it was on tour at the Tower of London. I tried to sneak a digital pic of it but only caught the corner of a page.
I actually own a print version of the Domesday book. I did not know it was online. Thanks for posting this gem. It is an invaluable glimpse of life in medieval England.
There is a huge effort by some people in the genealogy world to try and trace their ancestors to the Domesday Book. I know I can't.
I think my mother, who is English, can trace her family back to 9th century Peterborough, England. If I remember right I am descended from minor nobility through her. I am also descended from Irish Nobility on my Dad's mother's side. I guess that makes me noble, though the folks I work with would probably disagree and I have no Patents of nobility.
If mine was accurate, I went as far back as the 1600's for one branch of my dad's side. I can do the English roots, but I can't beyond my g-g grandmother for the Irish side.
I would like to trace my German roots. My great-great-grandfather on my fathers side emigrated from Saxony in the 1860's, but I don't know the name of the town he came from. I do know the original spelling of my last name, which was anglicized during WWI. I am not a genealogist though so I really have no idea where to start looking and I refuse to pay some service several hundred dollars with no certainty of any answers. I know my grandmothers side came to America in the 1770's because my aunt did the research to join the DAR about ten years ago.I think I said in another thread that my wife can trace her family for something like 900 years in the village where her parents still live. I wish I could trace my family back that far. It would be fascinating to feel the personal touch of my ancestors when I am doing historical research. Putting myself in the shoes of the past is why I love history to begin with.
I got hooked on genealogy just before my daughter was born. Though I personally didn't find the information, I discovered a cousin that had traced some of my ancestors back to the early 1700s here in the US. I also have a branch that I can trace back to Norway in the early 1800s. I may have found a branch of my wife's family back to the early 1300 in Switzerland. If anyone is interested in genealogy, there are several programs out there you can pick up for about $30 that can probably do a lot more than the beginner really needs, but it is worth it. Like good historians, you know that hearsay is one thing but documentation is proof. Most of my information I get through the census's and SSAN death lists.Let me know if anyone wants more information on how to get started or is stuck with someone.
