Background

Why TRIBE?

I had been researching my own genealogy for some years and then I met my wife, who has the surname TRIBE, so I started to add information about her family to my research. Our marriage and then the birth of our first child intensified my research as I was now studying the origins of our child (See TheCarterTribe Genealogy). And then with the TRIBE family I hit a brick wall with Hannah TRIBE in Wisborough Green in Sussex in the 18th century. I noticed that there were only a reasonably small number of TRIBES in the UK in each of the Victorian Censuses and so I decided to try and record all of them in an effort to breach my own Brick Wall.

Where to start?

There are so many sources of information now available for genealogical study it is a little bit difficult knowing where to start from. I decided to start with the 1851 Census. This is the first British census that gives details such as relationships and birthplace. There are 653 tribes listed in the 1851 census and from these I have tried to derive lineages based on the birth place of heads of families, unmarried adult females and stray adult males.

Organising the information gained from the large number of sources available is also difficult.

There are also lots of different ways of presenting and managing genealogical data. I use family pages, timelines, trees, individual pages and stories for my own family genealogy. I am still working out the best way to present the data I have collected for this One-Name study.