Well...........I have been busy making the most of an annual subscription I took out with a Family History site where I can access information and indices without having to pay each time. It has given me much more freedom to check things out rather than to use up precious purchased units.
So I have been checking out the Census records for all Hookins and Hookings entries for 1841, 1951, 1871 and 1911. This involves finding them all, taking a print of the page, indexing them, identifying which families they belong to (sometimes checking other records and finding that they are Hoskins thanks to the writing of the Census enumerator!), recording on individual records and then trying to find out why some people are missing (maybe indexed by the Family History site under a completely different name like Kookins thanks to handwriting or mis-transcribing). So I am at various stages with each of those.
I have also recently been able to check all the Hookins/Hookings births from 1837-2006 with their GRO references - I had many of them but it needed completing. Then I'll move on to the marriages and deaths which are not so complete.
Different surnames crop up from time to time which I know I have come across before linked to a family tree member so to help myself locate them I have started to pull together an index of all those names - I'm about halfway through my 400 odd families now as I log maiden/other surnames. Quite a list - it's amazing how many different surnames the Hookins clan have become involved with over the years.
Access to the Family History site records also enables me to check some of the family records I have where they do not appear to be connected to any other family and working through these with the help of that website has identified that some had surnames which were definitely not Hookins so I have been able to note their records to that effect.
So new people are being found all the time - we are up to 1627 now - and I will soon be uploading up to date versions of all of the Trees which will include all the additional information I have discovered.
So although I've been quiet I have still been beavering away with the research.
