Ancestry/Genealogy

But right now ordering hard copies is not a priority in my research. And, as I said, my sister who spends half the year in England with her British husband may have ordered a copy. I suggested to her that she might save us money by doing that.

So far as I have been able to figure out, the GRO does not have a way to order multiple documents to be sent together. Their order process seems to be for one document at a time to be sent separately. Once I get started ordering documents those separate mailing costs will add up fast. If I can get my sister to order them sent to her husband's English address it will cost a lot less. Then she can either hand carry the documents to the US when she comes over or she can ship bundles of documents at once.

We've got at least one New England Morgan ancestor - I don't remember the details right now. I've just started working on that branch of the family so will come to her fairly soon.

I'm doing a "first pass" through all the branches to see what I can find online without ordering stuff or even leaving the house. I've spent money on memberships to some online places - Ancestry, Footnote (now Fold3), and The Genealogist (UK) - so I can access major databases. With those and free online sites like FamilySearch.org and GenWeb.org, I have found an amazing amount of material and extended some branches back quite a ways.

Once I finish all the branches with this pass, I will start ordering stuff from the LDS libraries, documents from places that do not have things online, and see how far that takes me.

I did think the two Mary Morgans who were daughters of David and Catherine could be sisters. I've seen that soooo many times, I can't count them! Heck, my German ancestors named all their sons and daughters with the same first name and different middle names - which got confusing with one piece of software that only listed first names!