Genealogy is a subjective hobby and there will be a number of errors and omissions in this database, I am finding them and amending information all the time. Much of this comes to light as I continue to read parish records but a significant amount is found by visitors to this web site. Please report any errors using the suggest link by the individual.
I use the present day names for locations if available or known, English counties are however the pre-1970 traditional counties and I make extensive use of Chapman codes for compatibility with other programs.
Almost everything researched is included within the database. The FTM database is used as a vehicle for storing both my own and my wife's genealogy.
It is also used to store all linked individuals researched for the Bolstridge One Name Study , approximately 90% of all Bolstridges found.
In both cases I have generally included the spouses parents and their marriage if found. For the Bolstridge Study I have attempted to include the first generation of offspring for female marriages. There are exceptions to that rule mainly where a further family link is suspected or confirmed, these are included even if they result in a dead end.
Other exceptions are the result of research for other family members or interesting links, these include the Bouchier, Duffield, Hewins and Mossop and Stretton families.
Navigation is intuitive and should need no explanation. Major sections of the database can be accessed uniquely from the tool bar. Most of these sections are linked internally via the database.
The notes section that follows each persons parentage contains additional information in chronological order, there may or not be hyperlinks within these pages, these should open a new browser window.
Where substantial biographical information creates a large page there will be a link under the Notes heading to a supplementary page. This will generally open in a new window use your browsers close button to return to the individual's page. These large pages will eventually form the basis of TNG's "history" pages. A recent gedcom problem resulted in the loss of much formatting for the census notes. These are gradually being corrected, please report any you find.
I have now standardised census data to be included in the individual notes pages, some as yet do not follow this rule please report any you find. Census data is transcribed per family and is included in the father's notes. If the father becomes deceased subsequent data is transferred to his surviving spouse unless she remarries when it transfers to her new spouse. It is always policy to check the wife who survives her husband for additional information and/or details of re-marriage.
Each relationship generates a family section which contains details of partner / spouse if known. Children are listed in order of birth . If names of children show "living" this means they are either still alive or I have no death information, the cut off age is 110 after that they are assumed dead.
If a child's name is preceded by a > sign this means their pages contain Family information i.e. children and / or spouses. Many females have a family section without a spouse / partner, this normally indicates an illegitimate birth.
FTM's poor gedcom compliance results in Repositories showing up as a "Source Note". I have successfully managed to extract the Call Number tag but the location, FTM implementation of a repository tag is proving more difficult.
I have recently started using FTM's source quality field to provide a web or download link which shows up in the source notes. Not all of these are currently active. Some PDF files will require a password to open, you will be notified of this before attempting a download.
Much of this database was entered before the instigation of AKA's (also Known As) by FTM. To aid indexing I decided early on to standardise surnames. The surnames standardised and their common variants are listed below.
Barfield - Barefield, Berfield, Burfield
Bolstridge - Boulstridge, Bostridge (arrived as a separate name circa 1820), Bolestridge, Bouldstridge.
Duffield - Duffel, Duffill, Duffle, Doffill
Greensill - Grensill, Greencell, Grinsell, Gruncell
Tonks - Tonkes (the IGI standardises this as Tonkiss for some unknown reason), Tunk(e)s (used almost exclusively in Warwickshire prior to 1800), Tounkes and Tounckes.
Treadwell - Tredwell, Thredwell, Tredle
N.B. there are exceptions to these rules but they will be apparent from the source information.
Month / Year, e.g. MAR 1842, these are usually found in birth and death entries and are estimates from burial dates and baptismal dates.
Day/Month/Year, e.g. 9 APR 1842, these are found in Birth, Marriage Burial information where the full date is known usually from civil registration information.
Month range / Year, e.g. JAN - MAR 1842, these will be un-requested civil registration certificates found in the GRO indices, (St Catherine's). NB I have recently found that TNG can't resolve a living flag for these, as a quick fix these are rendered to Year only.
Year Only, Calculated from census and age at marriage / death information.
Assumptions, All prefixed ABT, females 21 at marriage, males 25 at marriage, fathers noted in marriage certificate 30 + age of child and marriage 2 years before the birth of first child. I endeavour to estimate any dates not found as I find this helpful in finding duplicate individuals in the database.