Maternal Grandfather FOUND!

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Looking for information on Archer Millard (my newly-found maternal Grandfather)! Yippee. Thanks.
in Genealogy Help by Angela Southward G2G4 (4.3k points)
retagged by Keith Hathaway
Congratulations, Angela!!!  I know exactly how you feel - i just found my paternal grandfater a week ago and it has led to about 100 new family members and I was able to extend 2 more generations back.  This also included more relatives and more generations on my grandmother's side.  My feet have still not hit the ground from the exhilaration of it all!  I hope it's the same for you, too.
Thanks for the support Gaile. Very happy about finding my greats. I guess it's a long, long, looooong process to go through to make family connections. I just hope mine is not too long as I'm a senior and hope to get more information before my next ride on the circle of life. Wanting to pass it along to my 43 year old son who is just now getting interested in genealogy. Happily I'm able to dispel all sorts of fiction that my mother made up!!! But sad to lose the 'gypsy' history she invented! LOL.

Not having any memberships on genealogy web sites (nor the money to buy them) makes it much harder: very few free ones around, but Thank Heaven for WikiTree. Any tips?

Good luck to you, and thanks again.

Like you, I don't have any memberships on any of the pay sites. I find almost everything on Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org/search), which is a free site.  Sometimes it takes a lot of searches to locate the right records because of misspellings of names and errors in dates.  I have become very adept at using the filters they have there to make my searches narrower or wider, as needed.  It's definitely a learning curve to become more efficient at finding things.

About being a senior ...  I started here in response to a request from my middle grandson (he's 26 and has brothers who are 28 and 21) about giving him family information.  Despite that, please make sure to note that I happen to only be 21 (which I have been for many, many years) except when senior citizen discounts are being offered!!!

About family fictions - please take a look at my grandmother's profile (the one who I never knew had any brothers or sisters until a week ago, and didn't know her parents' names until then either).  I included the family stories in there and pointed out the contrasts between them and the truths I just learned.

 

Hi again Gaile.

What a coincidense - I'm only 21 too!

Thanks for your help and comments. Will keep WikiTree posted.

Angela

1 Answer

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Would he be one of these Archer Millard's from parts of England? 

Archer W Millard
Son
England and Wales Census, 1891
birth: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
residence: 1891 England
 
Archer Millard
Son
England and Wales Census, 1891
birth: Frome, Somersetshire
residence: 1891 England
 
Archer Miller
Son
England and Wales Census, 1891
birth: Liverpool, Lancashire
residence: 1891 England
 
Archer Miller
Son
England and Wales Census, 1891
birth: Nottingham
residence: 1891 England
 
Archer H Miller
Son
England and Wales Census, 1891
birth: Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
residence: 1891 England
by Frank Gill G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)

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