Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

FarmI wrote:
> "Terryc" <newsthreespam-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

>>Lol, sometimes you have to research other things to crack the mystery.
My 
>>common problem 10 generations back is that it really need a whole
village 
>>to be do***ented to determine if that earlier chain is mine or not. Such

>>as were there two Thomas Bakers in the town or just the one and he 
>>remarried when the first wife died
> 
> Yes, I know what you mean, but it's nice to see that you are fastidious 
> about it. 

i don't know if I'm really that fastidious or just prepared to pitch it 
a little bit. One particular place in East Sus*** is turning up a whole 
lot of "cousins" on both sides of the gutter.

> I can't believe some of the unsup****ted crap people are happy to 
> put in their trees.

I always take the view that it is an evolving who dun-it affair. You 
enter what you have and note evidence that sup****ts it or contradicts it 
and just re-check it as time goes by. People get what they want from it 
I guess.


> At least you seem to have got a long way back,  After 20+ years I'm no 
> futher back than 6 generations on the furthest line.  Sigh!  I've just 
> joined Ancestry to try to sort out my mid 19th C Bucks. Ag Labs.  

Some areas are dead set easy and other; shudder.

> I've 
> virtually done nothing on them for maybe 10 years because I hoped the 
> internet would catch up given how far I am from good libraries.  It
seems it 
> finally has caught up.

Well, that has been my break. First, I had a web page summaries and 
interactive server that people could look at and I made a few contacts a 
decade a go, then you get a drought, then a flood and forever wonder if 
you've followed everything up.

Now, I skim a pile of Rootsweb name and regional lists, Lot of 
irrelevant chaff, but an occassional seed.

Family search.org has been helpful sometimes, but you have to watch the 
"contributions"

Funnily. lists on rootschat.com have been very useful for Sus***, but 
zilch for anything else. benn interesting as people have found the 
"parish lists" for stuff that ended up on Familysearch and that often 
gave three generations at church, very helpful.

These pay to search peoples trees places are a major pain and I avoid 
them entirely. Too many of them were great at matching my tree with "my 
tree" deerrr, really helpful. Or stuff like, every Collins in Great 
Britan. Yer, right.
..


> Aaah!  Bloody Somerset! One of my other brick walls has as it's last
name 
> one "John Smith".  Only I could be so lucky.

Err, there is always some one worse off and that was my wife; Davies in 
Wales, until out of the blue, someone said, Oh, that ties to mine. 
Stroke of luck.

> But what are you going to do about that brick wall?  Just general
research 
> on the family name, or stop with what you have? 

My priorities are to work on the shortest branch/limb/stub, with a view 
that maybe time will uncover more information on the brick walls.

One of my get-around-to-its is to list my brick walls with whatever 
information "we" have uncovered on a web page and hope that one of us in 
a bit of browsing, whatever, has a serendipitous moment, or whatever.

I sort of accept that some lines are just going to end because "records" 
were never made or they have disappeared. Since basically all my lines 
were all UK and early leavers, their BDM are not much help and early 
census can be very patchy, so unless they went to church and the records 
survived, the only hope of any clue might come from other old do***ents.

Interestingly, the somerset line is suppossed to have come from Ireland 
but I've never uncovered anything about how that is likely to have 
occurred or when it may have occurred. Been very interesting to relate 
ancestors movements to events in history, but on this one I have no clue.