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Can someone please explain how microfiche works. I have found some ancestors on it and in the little box that gives their names, there are three other names too. Are these people relations or just happen to be there? Would appreciate if someone could explain how it all works. Thanks. Kirsten

What were you looking at - Parish records or censuses? ~Tracy

A Microfiche is just a peice of plastic with information printed on it. To answer your question on who the other 3 people are you would have to tell us where you had the microfilm from and what information it recorded. If the microfiche contains a copy of parish records then the relative you found may be related to the others. Either as a brother, cousin, uncle, nephew etc or he could be unrelated.

Oh Kirsten, you've edited your message!!! Buttercuo (Tracy), dont know if this helps but it's Kirsten's original message before she edited it:- Can someone please explain how microfiche works. I've found an ancester , William Thirlwell, on it and at the side of his name are four others, one of which he is married to, Isable Ramza. Who are the other three? Would they be connected to my ancestors? Vickerson Thirlwell/Ann. Thirlwell, Willm. Peter Thirlwell/ m c Mar 1783 Ryton Thirlwell, Wm. Isable Ramza . m m 07 Jun 1747 Tanfield I am very confused about all this and would appreciate any clarification. Thank you. Kirsten

Ok, so it looks like Parish records. Is it marriage or deaths? or something else? As Lunar said, unless you provide details of what type of information you're looking at, we can't help you understand it. ~Tracy

Sorry! I typed it all out perfectly, then when I went to view it it made no sense at all, so I decided to edit it. Thought people would end up being just as confused as me! I was looking at parish records, at least I think so. Was just alot of records of marriages and christenings. I just want to know who the other people in the little box along with my ancestor were. ----------------------- Vickerson Thirlwell/Ann. Thirlwell, Willm........Peter Thirlwell/.....M. C. 1783 Ryton. Thirwell,Wm.............Isable Ramza.......H. M. 07 1747 June. Tanfield. Kirsten

Could you write out exactly what it said, so we could maybe make it out better?

Isable Ramza comes under Peter Thirlwell. So it's like Peter Thirlwell/Isabel Ramza. I don't know who Peter is or who Vickerson Thirlwell/Ann are. They just appear in that little box above the other too. Sorry if I've made it difficult for everyone. The first C is for christening and the M is for Marriage. William Thirlwell married Isabel Ramsay on the 7 June 1747, so I know that it is them.

It's not written like anything I've see before. There are only 2 sets of dates, but 3 sets of people? To me, it looks like Peter is the son of William, born c1783. Don't know if that's true though. Is the information from a Records Office, or somewhere else?

I took a photo of it, if I'm able to I could download and then show you. The info was from my local library, in a file listed under Durham. Everything was a bit jumbled and I'd never used microfiche before.

That might be an idea :) If you can, I'll PM you my addy.

Yeah, just downloaded it. Pm your addy to me and then I'll send it to you through email.

Have just Pm'd you, Buttercup. Kirsten

Adding my two pennorth, it looks like something taken from the IGI, as the LDS church records are the only ones I've seen who organise their info in that way. If that's the case, particularly since there are years, but not days, I would file this as untrustworthy info. It may relate to a single family, but it may prove a complete red herring, guessing at connections.

Ahh, it all makes sense now :) Vickerson relates to the entry above the line. The boxes have no significance, other than breaking up the page so it's easier to read. As they're all Thirwells, it's possible they are all related somewhere, but I don't think any of them are direct relations. I was almost right about Peter and William, though Wiliam is Peters son. Can't say I've ever seen a records like that before though lol

Oh I see now! Thank you so much. I've never used microfiche before so I couldn't tell you if it's unusual. Isabel is his wife...and Peter is his father. I never knew that...