I have recently tracked down some Italian LeFever records and so I have now added an Italian page to the site. The first data entry adds an additional 41 records to the dataset. I have come across another couple of famous LeFever’s and will be adding them in the next few days.
With the release of some new records on Family Search I have added an additional country to the database. The civil marriage registers for Natal province of South Africa have been transcribed and it is this data that I have added. This has added 12 families (24 individuals) to this dataset which is available here. Inputting the data from the transcriptions is always precarious at the best of times and the original images should always be checked. I reconstruct the trees of the Lefever families using Family Historian and this software threw an error on one of the entries. It showed a 3 year old woman marrying a 62 year old man. A check of the image showed that it was a mis-transcription and the woman was actually 30 at the time of her marriage. This shows the value of checking your sources and always looking at the relevant original record wherever possible.
I have added an additional 111 records to the Channel Islands data set. These are mainly births on Guernsey in the 1800’s. This data is from the recently released parish records on Family Search. Interesting facts from this data update Three males with the surname Thoumine married three females with the surname Le Fevre. I wonder if they are all related? More research required, I just wish on-line research on the Channel Islands was easier. For the first time in any of the Lefever research, any where in the world, that I have done I have come across records of twins being born. There are two sets of twins in this data update.
I have just done a fairly large data update to the GB data. There are now 2901 records displayed on this page. There are a few duplicates and my next task will be to track these down and combine the records. I also need to rationalise how I use Family Historian in conjunction with Excel as unfortunately I have managed to get them out of sync, so I have a large data cleansing exercise to undertake. I have also updated some of the technology that runs the website and changed the way that the data tables are displayed. This is currently only live on the GB data set. You can now search for an individual record and choose how many records are displayed on a page. You can still sort each of the columns either ascending or descending. I intend to apply this new table display to the other pages over the next few days.
As a result of my research yesterday I found an Adelaide Lefevre born in Barbados, West Indies. Thanks to Bob Cumberbatch and Family Search I have now found a baptism entry for her and her brother and a burial entry for her father, Samuel, all in Barbados in the 1830’s. As a result I have added a new Barbados page to the website. Go here to see the Barbados records.
I have been slowly working through the 1841 Census entries to ensure that I have all the Lefever’s recorded. Out of the records I have entered today a significant percentage of them have been incarcerated in one place or another. This includes one woman in Warwick jail and a man in a prison hulk in Portsmouth harbour. I found my first Lefevre born in the West Indies now to see if I can find out anything more about her.
I have done a small update today and added an additional twenty 1841 Census records to the GB data set. I thought that I had the majority of the 1841 census records in the database. I started to do a check by county using the census distribution chart that I include in this site and searching through both Ancestry and Find My Past I have found additional records that weren’t in the distribution chart. One of the worst examples was Sussex where there were only supposed to be 2 records, I have in fact found 12 people in Sussex on the 1841 census. As a result I will now treat the census distribution as a rough guide in future.
I have just been contacted by C-G Magnusson from Sweden and he is kindly supplying me with details of various Swedish Lefevre’s. Currently in March 2013 there are: Lefevbre – 12 people Lefevre – 36 people Lefever – 0 people I am currently entering the details he has sent into the database and they will be published on this site shortly. Thanks to C-G for these records.
I have now moved all the details of my Lefever and variants One-Name study on to its own domain. The website is now available at Le-Fever.org