Steve Jackson

My journey into #genealogy was inspired by my late mother Betty and her unusual maiden surname (Mum is pictured here in 1961 with her parents, Fred and Louisa #Atcherley).

I started in 2007, when I found Mum's grandparents in the 1901 #census before pushing further back into the 1800s.

Intrigued by the various Atcherleys I found I started researching them all in an attempt to work out which ones were 'mine'. This led to a #OneNameStudy (or #SurnameStudy) - hence my handle 'AtcherleyONS'.

Jul 31, 2023 at 10:22amWeb
Show threadAnneTheWriterJul 31, 2023

@AtcherleyONS

I ended up with a similar #SurnameStudy for one of the names in my #FamilyTree: Freligh (Froelich/Freleigh/Fraleigh/etc).

I began with an existing compiled printed #genealogy, but I've found a lot more than what's there, over the years. I've even discovered an error in the printed genealogy.

https://diggingintoyourfamilytree.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/freligh-genealogy-including-addendum/

I also created a #timeline to organize all the various surname matches I found which were the same first name as my ancestors. (There were a lot of John, Henry, William, & George Frelighs in early 1800s America, apparently.)

I highly recommend making #timelines when researching genealogy. It was by doing so that I caught the error in the original document. It also explained WHY my ancestors made various life decisions (such as moving to different cities & changing jobs), when I put their life events right next to historical events.

https://diggingintoyourfamilytree.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/freligh-timeline_updated-2020.pdf

#Genealogist #Geneadons #FamilyResearch #FamilyTrees #Surnames #FamilyHistory #SurnameStudies

Freligh Genealogy (Including Addendum)

Many years ago, I chanced upon a Genealogy of the Freligh family [the first embedded PDF file below], written by Genealogist Theodore “Ted” Overbagh. Many years ago, I chanced upon a Ge…

Digging into Your Family Tree
Show threadSteve JacksonAug 1, 2023
@AnneTheWriter1 Many thanks, will take a look! There wasn't a published genealogy for the Atcherleys to guide (or confuse) me, but there were some pedigrees (notably by the Burkes) for one particular branch. And a gedcom supplied by a distant cousin who had been researching the Atcherleys for 20 years before I started. I decided to use that as a guide to refer to when I struggled with my own attempts to piece together the Atcherley tree(s) and have both corroborated/expanded it and corrected it!