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Ancestry, really came through for me.
Ancestry.com / Ancestry.ca has never been my most favorite site as it costs money and I hate to spend my money but today I have changed my mind for another year.
Ancestry recently releases a new collection for England “The London parish records, 1538-1980”.
I was expecting to find nothing exciting but I found another sibling for my great great grandfather. Presumably the boy, Henry Richard, died before the next census but without this collection, I wouldn’t have known about him at all. I also found my great great grandfather’s christening. James Matthew Lay is not the most easy to find guys but I already had his birth certificate so I was surpised to find a Christening over a year after his birth. It seems his parents liked to save up the christenings and do two children together. It was lucky they grouped them as I only found his sister’s name in the index (so the index needs a bit more work)
The amazing thing is that I am still finding more information…