There are always plenty of webinars to sign up to watch related to various areas of interest to genealogists. So many in fact, that it has been a long time since I watched any of the sessions available on Legacy Family Tree Webinars, a site to which I subscribe. I'm not sure what triggered my memory of the site, perhaps an email or some other mention, but I signed in and checked out what was on offer. That's when I saw a set of webinars called "England Counties Research Series". My ancestors came from many of the counties in England so that series looked promising.
I started with the session on Norfolk as I knew my 2 x great grandmother, Sarah Minister, had come from there. I took notes as I watched the webinar so I'm hoping that I'll be able to delve back further into my Norfolk family roots. Not that I've done anything much about that yet. It also made me realize that I hadn't filled in the information on Sarah's siblings, nor had I found the death of her father or mother. There's lots to be done on this family line.
Remembering that I wanted to branch out my family tree, I started adding Sarah's siblings. It appears that Sarah was the youngest, born in 1814. She had two sisters, Mary Ann born 1807, Eliza born 1818, and one brother, William born 1813. Interestingly, Mary Ann appears to have moved to London. Sarah also moved there. Both sisters also married in the big city. I wonder if their families got together and reminisced about life in Norfolk comparing it with life in the colossus that was the main city of England.
So I've made a start finding the descendants of this family and the surnames the women and children now went by. I'll see how much further my research takes me into their future before I start seeing how far back I can get into my Norfolk roots.
Sources:
Legacy Family Tree Webinars “England Counties Research Series” https://familytreewebinars.com
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