Okay, so I am at the homepage of familysearch.org. Basically the home of the AGI, although they do, as I said before, cover other records as well. If you're going to search on here, you will need to set up a free account by clicking that button at the top there. I'm just going to sign in. Okay, now I'm going to, oh, just before I do that, just let me explain. When you have an account, you can also enter your ancestors, your family tree, and when you're done, it's quite useful.

It comes up with various suggestions and possible ancestors and also images That's been contributed by other people with possibly your same ancestry as you. But of course, you must always double check these don't assume they are yours. You need to check those. Okay, so I'm going to look for an ancestor on my monk side, the Isle of Man side because they don't come up very much on ancestry apart from the IDI entry of course, but I just want to show you how to search family search and it's very simple. We'll come along to this menu here and just go straight down to records. Now if you just wanted to search the IDI alone and out and not have any other records come up, you could type the IDI into here and then click it on the on the menu, but we'll we'll just go straight to this search.

Engine and just see what comes up. Okay, now we're going to look for Henry Jean. And he was the father of Lizzie Jane, who you laughs or getting married in that photograph way back at the beginning of the course. And Henry Christian was one of the older people at the back of the photograph. So you can we can also, you can search for marriages and residents, of course, would probably bring up a census record. And death, not many of those, but we're looking for Well, actually a baptism.

And he was born in a place called Russian in the Isle of Man. And we know he was born about 1856. So I'm going to give us sort of two year either way. The nice thing about family search and some other websites as you can do put in a range rather what ancestry does, you have to type in a year and then say it's limited to 10 years either way, which is sometimes annoying. It's very useful sometimes to put in a range of your choice. So, for this because I want to, I know he was in Yarmouth man, I'm going to put in the Isle of Man for the country and leave it there.

Now what comes up is we've got four listings for Henry protein, christenings and then there's a Henry Christian burial and various others, but the closest matches tend to give you the information here. Now as you can see these first four, two of the can have same parents and the other two have another set of parents you will find that there are multiple entries for the same person on the IDI and that's because the entries will have been sent into the IDI by different people so they're often not full entries. So that's why that is. Now in this case, there are two separate Henry two genes and one with William and Catherine are as parents and the other one who parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Now luckily because I am, I've seen him on the census. I do know that his parents were William and Catherine. And I think that Thomas was his uncle, actually.

Um, so let's have a look and see what happens when we click on his name. There you see the index entry. Now, it just gives basic information christening date, the christening place, crushing, and the parents. And if it's always worth checking any other multiple entries, so there's anything extra on there use nothing on there. But if you look on the right here, this is quite useful here they've actually got a photo of the original document so we can actually go so this has been provided by the Mac's museum. So we can we don't have to apply to that we can actually see it which is really, really useful.

So if we come up here we can see them and as you can see, the original entry does have more information. We've got the abode of put air in. And the fact that William Christine was a fisherman can also it's quite useful that in the Manx records the mother's maiden name is given, which doesn't often happen in English records. So they are so sometimes the IDI the family search or will give you some extra information like that, which is very useful. So it certainly is if you can't find an original record on ancestry before applying, just come over to familysearch and just see what they've got. Because sometimes it can be surprising.

Okay, so that's the IDI and I mean, there are various other things you can search in the various family trees. But I tend just keep it to searching the records as I've just done. This other things are being contributed you can't always trust them. So I just tend to keep to the actual index entries. There you go. That's familysearch.org and see you in it.