When I started on my family tree, I knew very little, I did not even know my one set of grandparents. I had lost my mother and father, and thought that I would never know. I started with obtaining my father's birth certificate, and from that early start I had the names of my grandparents for the first time. It became a bug, I had to know more. I eagerly awaited the postman. I spent days at the library, and Family history centre. My days out consisted of visiting places my ancestors came from. I walked around grave yards looking at headstones. Then with no interest whatsoever in computers, I suddenly had to have one. Vast amounts of records needed filing, research on the Internet needed doing, communicating around the world with other family members, it was a bug. That was then, now of course things are quite different, All I aim to do now, is just connect every Garbett in the world.

GARBETT FAMILY, COAT OF ARMS

Family Motto
"Vivot ut Vivas in Aeternum"

Meaning Roughly
"To Live as You Live in Eternity"

PRESS to Contact Peter Garbett

Many thanks to all of you who have been sending in your family trees, I have been working to connect them together, and hope to achieve the goal of connecting all the Garbett's in the World together. This would not be possible without your kind help, and special thanks to Laura Burress, who has been working hard on the other side of the pond in the United States of America, to help connect our American cousins.
I now have links in the USA., Canada, Australia, some India, and South Africa. Keep them coming.

Areas for research for the family genealogists.
Always Start with Family members, get around your family, starting with the oldest members first. Visit your Grandparents, Aunty's, Uncles, Cousins, Great Uncles and aunties, Second cousins etc. You will be amazed what you will turn up.
Birth, Marriage and Death Records. After 1837 in the British Isles, Every Birth, Marriage and Death where recorded. If you look in your main library, or Family History Centre, they will carry an index of these, The index is known as the St Catherine's Index. The records are indexed in alphabetical order of Surnames, then First Names. They are set out into quarters, January to March being the first quarter and so on. In the UK. these cost six pounds fifty pence each from the local Registry office concerned. They do cost more from other sources.
Next you have IGI. records. These where compiled from local Church records, by the Mormon Church, [Church of Jesus Christ and Later Day Saints], they are carried on Microfiche at local libraries and Family History Centres, and on the Internet through "Familysearch.com" [the Mormon church's Web site], you can download up to 50 IGI records at a time for Free.
There are Many Internet sites dedicated to Genealogy, look at the links page for some good ones.
In the UK, a census has been done every 10 years, it started in 1801, but the earlier census records are of little use to the family historian, they only contain numbers not names. From 1841 better records existed, and they give names of all in the household, and the relationship to the head, ages and occupations. The 1881 census is most widely available, and is available on CD from the Mormon Church. Part of the 1851 census is also available on CD.
In 2002, the British records office will be releasing the 1901 census, as this is done every 100 years, this will be published on the internet. The cost is quite high, I believe it will be a minimum cost of six pounds. See more pages on researching in the UK, go to the main index.