Researching Family History

To go back to the OP... you won't find everything that is online unless you look everywhere! Use any sites you can, free or pay.
And don't forget that there are local and national - and world! forums where you can ask any questions and they have helpful people who may be able to answer them!

I must have another shot with my father's side. I never knew his parents nor my mum's so had no grannies and granddads to grow up with. All dead before I was born but with help from a dear departed Manx cousin I have mum's tree going back to the mid 1600's. Cumbria and Norfolk had featured in hers. Cousin was fortunate enough to visit our relatives in New Zealand,Australia and here in Southend before a couple of them died. I know I have a cousin in New York as well. These far away cousins were the result of a second marriage of my maternal GF.
With dad's tree I've drawn a blank except for one or two snippets an uncle told me years ago about one ancestor being involved with Hadrians Wall, a jester for Henry VIII and a connection to Jerusalem. Just 3 pieces of a jigsaw.

Annie can you find any tailoring apprenticeship records for William?

No Elegran. nothing. I transcribed for Anglesey Registrars for five years, had acess to the archives too. This is how I am so sure William didn’t die there, I transcribed the births, deaths and marriages . I do know the family lived in a ‘poor house’, small cottages given to the church by land owners for poor but respectable ! families lived. Very close to them lived a tailor from a family of tailors. There is always a possibility that William had to serve an apprenticeship as part of the agreement allowing the family to live in a poor house. Anglesey is difficult , before the bridge they were cut off from the rest of Wales. I really want to find where William died . Thank you

katykrunch if you have found your grt grandmothers name, DOB and where she lived, then the census records are your next port of call, from there you might find her with her whole family also age and place of birth, from there you can work back, however I have hit a couple of brick walls where people seem to have disappeared, also my Grandfather has no fathers name on his birth certificate and when his mother remarried he took her new husbands surname, so I was looking for the incorrect surname.

I had to trawl through an awful lots of census returns and BMD results to find him, his birth certificate proved my findings, but they were only £7 or so to buy back in the day.

I have an Ancestry subscription and they have enormous amounts of information, but I started of with the free LDS sight and found records of my family, then I went back to Ancestry and found the census returns.

But I will never get my Grandfathers paternal side of the tree. That’s how it goes I’m afraid.

Thank you everyone, I shall take on board all your tips and ideas. I have been really lucky to have had a lovely lady actually find out a great deal for me and has given me a fabulous set of information that I can work from. I am so grateful to her for her kindness and time.

You can access Ancestry and Find my Past free of charge at your local library. A friend of mine has done a lot of research that way. Before you go, make a list of your parents and grandparents dates of birth, marriages and deaths, and where they lived, as far as you can, to get you started. Good luck. I find its quire addictive!