Norman And Marian Barton Family Tree

    Resources Used

    Some resources are paid via subscription or “pay per view”, some resources are free.

    • Find My Past: used to hold the reference version of the Family Tree and main source of genealogical data. Integrates with Billion Graves and British Newspaper Archive. Has no DNA capability [paid]
    • Ancestry: used for additional genealogical data, such as Tithe payments, also integrates with Find A Grave and Newspapers.com. Has more subscribers than Find My Past so is better for checking other trees and making connections. Has full DNA capability [paid]
    • Free BMD, Free CEN: only used once in a while to double check Find My Past when expected results do not appear, due to transcription errors for example [free]
    • Find A Grave: used to find graves, including photographs for some, though sometimes graves present in Wigan World are not present on Find A Grave, integrated into Ancestry [free]
    • Deceased Online: used to find graves, has burials not on Find A Grave or Wigan World, just transcripts not photographs [paid]
    • Billion Graves: similar to Find A Grave, but is integrated into Find My Past [paid]
    • British Newspaper Archive: good source for British newspapers though the transcriptions for older papers is poor, integrated with Find My Past [paid]
    • Newspapers.com: mainly US papers, integrates with Ancestry [paid]
    • General Register Office (GRO): UK Government site that provides Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates [paid]
    • Find A Will: UK Government site to search and download wills and grants of probate, though headline probate information usually on Find My Past already [paid]
    • Family Search: worldwide tree useful for picking up other people’s work, though data is often unreliable. It also has wills available which otherwise would have to be purchased from a government web site [free]
    • Family Historian: used to generate the family tree diagrams for this web site. Diagrams are created by generating a GEDCOM file from Find My Past and then loading that file into Family Historian which produces the diagrams. GEDCOM is the text format used by all Family Tree sites and applications to describe a family tree, see Wikipedia [paid]
    • Wigan World: great resource for all things Wigan related, including cemetery burial data, streets, photographs and discussions [free]
    • Wigan Building Preservation Trust: has various background items about Wigan [free]
    • Skelmersdale Heritage Society: heritage information for Skelmersdale area [free]
    • National Library Of Scotland Maps: superb resource for historical maps for anywhere in UK [free to browse, paid for hard copy or download]
    • The Genealogist: has Tithe Maps from c 1840 [paid]
    • Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk: great resource providing interesting background information about Lancashire churches plus transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials, including some that are not available on FindMyPast, no images of original documents though [free]
    • Barton Historical & Genealogical Society: US based “one name studies” site about Barton families, of limited use [paid]
    • Barton Database: Site linked to Barton Historical & Genealogical Society [paid]
    • Henry Harold Harrison Family: great family site about a tree with a common ancestor in Henry And Ellen Mawdsley [free]
    • Age Calculator: simple but very useful tool to calculate ages given two dates [free]
    • Inflation Calculator: Bank Of England tool to convert monetary value into current day equivalent, used to convert bequest values [free]
    • Microsoft Excel: all genealogical data stored in Spreadsheets with one worksheet per family [paid]