Welcome
Welcome to James Caird’s Family Tree website. I hope you will find
something to interest you. You may wish to get in touch via the
e-mail address below if:
You think you might have something to contribute to my research;
You think I may be able to help with yours;
You think you may be related and just wish to get in touch.
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Contents of this page
This Website has 5 purposes:
To help me gather information about my Family Tree;
To allow me to share my Family Tree information with anyone
interested;
To re-establish contact with relatives my family has lost touch
with;
To make contact with relatives (however distant) I have not met
before;
To put Family Tree researchers in contact with one another where
their interests seem to coincide.
The Caird Family Tree concerns:
The family of my parents:
George Bradford Caird (1917 — 1984)
Viola Mary (Mollie) Newport (1922 — 2000)
Their ancestors;
The descendants of their ancestors.
The Family Tree contains over 900 names, far too many to list here. I
also have a lot of information that is too tentative to be included. In
some branches of the family, I have information stretching back into the
17th Century. I have quite a lot of information about the descendants
of my great grandparents although this is by no means complete. I am
particularly interested in hearing from people who are descended from my
great grandparents and their siblings or who think we may have common
ancestors in previous generations.
The Caird Family Tree is held on a computer programme called Legacy.
This is an extremely comprehensive, yet easy to use, management system
for genealogical information. A simplified version (which can be
upgraded) is available free from the Legacy Website (see Links below)
and I would recommend this if you are a beginner with genealogy
software.
These pages are set out with a separate page for each of the families of
my great great grandparents, most of whom were born around 1800. The
information on this Website is intended to grab your interest by giving
key names, dates and places particularly where my information is sketchy
or runs dry.
The site now contains a page about the Bradford family in north
Herefordshire in the 18th Century. It is this branch of the tree
which I have managed to trace back furthest.
You can navigate between the pages by following the highlighted links or
using the index opposite.
Information used to compile the Caird Family Tree has generally
comes
from the following sources:
My late parents and other close family members;
Information kindly provided by cousins of varying degrees, by e-mail
and post;
Personal research in various Record Offices and the Society of
Genealogists;
Internet sources, such as those mentioned in the Links section
below;
Visitors to this site, many of whom I have been able to provide with
information and have helped me. Thank you all.
I can provide family tree information in a number of forms:
Legacy files, for anyone running Legacy or compatible software;
GEDCOM files. GEDCOM is the accepted international standard for the
transfer of genealogical information. All good genealogy software can
read GEDCOM information;
Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format for anyone not using genealogy software
but with an e-mail address. The Adobe Acrobat Reader can be obtained
free from site listed under
Links below.
By special arrangement, by post.
The Caird Family Tree is not subject to statutory data protection.
Nevertheless, I adhere to the following policy to protect personal
privacy:
The Caird Family Tree contains no information that is not available
from publicly accessible sources;
No names of living persons appear on this Website;
Postal addresses and telephone numbers (where known) will not be
passed to third parties;
E-mail addresses will only be given to third parties with the
consent of the addressee.
Here are some links to genealogy websites that I have found useful:
The free family tree search engine run by the Mormon Church otherwise
known as the IGI. This is a useful index but does have inaccuracies and
omissions;
This site provides an online index to the quarterly indexes to registers
of births marriages and deaths for England and Wales at a cost of about
£0.10 per page (minimum £5.00). You don't get to see the records
themselves (these must be ordered at a cost of £7.00 if purchased
online). If you are trawling for dates it can be a time consuming
process;
This is now available. Searching the index is free but you have to pay
£0.75 each for images of pages of the enumeration books. These can be
saved and printed;
Census and births, marriages and deaths information. Name searches cost
£0.20 per page. Images of documents cost £1.00. Easily the best site
of its type. It is a pity the National Archives in England can't match
it;
A huge amount of information. Join the Society and visit their library
in London;
The good and improving Website for genealogical information for England,
Scotland and Ireland. It has register and census data, but you have to
pay for downloads and searches;
A site with very good detail, but sometimes difficult to identify
individuals with common names;
As described above;
Download the free reader for .pdf files;
The most useful general search engine.
You can contact me at
james@caird.org.uk
I shall be delighted to hear from you — we may even be cousins!
