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Thanks to links from our main
tree into America,
Australia,
Canada
and New Zealand
we've now opened these up with their own set of people.
Some of these are a bit skimpy, so if you can find someone here who is an ancestor of
yours in foreign parts please let us know and eventually
we'll conquer the world!
For those
of you who have sent us updates, information, images and
corrections, many thanks. Please bear with us because we
will get around to it eventually... and please keep them
coming. We're continually dripping smaller updates
onto the site. These can be anything from clarifications
to photographs, so please visit us regularly. |
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Close Ancestry Shop
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We've
agonised long and hard about this for over a year.
The site's turned into a bit of a monster and
unfortunately so have the costs of keeping it going. So,
to try to cover some of these we've put together a few
goodies in our new
online shop that we hope will tempt you into adding
a few pounds into our coffers, ... and it's as easy as
we can make it.
We're not here to make money and anything left over
will be used to buy Birth, Death and Marriage
Certificates ... or anything else that adds value.
The site started as a free resource, and that's the
way it's going to stay. However, all contributions will
be very gratefully received.
For anyone who simply wants to send us a donation, we
have a "donation" item in the shop for this purpose.
Just add it to your shopping basket as if you're buying
something real and pay online as you would do for real
stuff... or if you have a PayPal account you can send us
a donation direct to
sales@closeancestry.com - just remember to make it a
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Many thanks to all who have helped us out so far.
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Grinton Parish Registers
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We've managed to find a document containing the Grinton
Parish registers from 1640 to 1807! This is a digital
copy of a book published by the Yorkshire Parish
Register Society in 1905. It contains the Grinton
Registers dating from 1640 up to 1807 for Baptisms,
Marriages and Burials. There are gaps, as the original
text explains, but this seems to be due to missing
registers.
Click here for more on the Grinton Parish Registers |
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Poet Close Books
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We have a couple of Poet Close's books available as .PDF
files in the
shop. Even though they are 140 years old they are in
brilliant condition inside (unfortunately the covers
have suffered). He wasn't short of words, so these are
fantastic value.
Click here for more on Poet Close's Books ... the
quality of image below is a meagre fraction of the full
high-res scans on offer. |
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The
Church of St Andrew, Grinton |
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See the east
window at the
Church of St Andrew, Grinton which is a
dedication to members of the Close family. Click the
image below to see it in all its glory. |
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Unattached Trees |
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We've
finally bitten the bullet and published a
few unattached trees. These are "unattached" from the
point-of-view of not linking into our main tree.
However, what they all have in common (ish) is that they
start in
Grinton. Given that Grinton is not exactly large,
and had a smallish finite set of Closes living there at
any one time, it's almost inevitable that the tops of
these trees are related to each other in some way
(brothers, cousins, uncles, etc) - we just haven't found
the link yet. If
anybody can provide a link for any of these back into our main tree,
or joining two together, we'd be
very interested. Please
drop us a line. |
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The Story So Far |
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This seems
to be pretty much where it all started ... or at least
as far we've got up to now! |
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The current
holders of the Prolific Breeders Award are: |
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... and one of his sons ... |
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... both of whom managed a
groin-trembling 13 children apiece! Good
effort chaps. |
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As far as
the site goes, we
currently have over:
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900
people, now spanning three continents, every one of which
is related either by blood or marriage to everybody
else. So if you find you're related to one of these, you
are also related to ALL of
them!!! |
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800 people in our unattached trees, apparently covering
the best part of Lancashire and Wales in the 1800's. If
you find a link back into our main tree, please
let us know. |
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1,500
images of certificates, family photos, census
records, indices, places and family crests |
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180,000
cross-references between people, places and
images |
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...
and so far we've found:
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Site Map |
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| LAST MAJOR UPDATE |
| 31st December 2008 |
| An extension to an
unattached tree into Canada. 83 New! |
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Click
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Questions about the site? You can find
out more
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