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I'm sure he isn't an axe murderer, Sharon.  Joking aside, please don't be in too much of a rush with giving personal information.

Jayson

Hope not!  But there again I have already found a murderer in the family so is it possible to have two?!!!

Hi, just been doing a search on if people give out their home addresses to new contacts, and only came across this one!

A cousin of my granny has been in touch, with some great information.  he is from a second marriage and didn't know about his grandfather's first marriage (the line I'm from).  We've been emailing all weekend and he has sent photographs through and a scroll which is fab.  As we know, photographs are great, but it also turns out that our joint connection - his grandfather and my GG Grandfather was in a movie (very small part but he talks!) and he is going to get a copy taken and send it to me.  Of course this means me giving out my address and I'm unsure.   He is genuine (I'm sure!) but I'm unsure if I should give him my home or work address as it is early days still.  As previous comments have mentioned home addresses can be tracked down anyway. 

Am I just being too cautious?  He did send me an email from his work today so I know where he is and he is high up in the company - and yes I did google the company and his name and got matches just to be nosey!

Advise greatly appreciated!
Sharon

oohh very interesting!  I didn't know about the illigitimate son.  I've not got any further back than Thomas and Margaret (Wood), Margaret's parents, but hoping to go back to Register House later this month.  I'll take a note to look more into them.

Sharon

Someone recently got in touch with me to say I had the wrong information in my tree (I seemingly had their relatives that are not related to me).  As I couldn't prove it at the time - the information was collected when I first started the research and hadn't taken a note of the full details - I decided to copy my tree, take out those names and re-publish.  I still work off my original tree at home, until I can get to NRH to prove to myself that this person was correct. 

I felt that if she was right and I was wrong I didn't want to give out the wrong information, but I also didn't want to delete what I had in case I was the one that was correct!

Morning
because of this thread i started to write about my early days last night - then the PC crashed and it was all lost.  lucky i only got up to age 4

Oh no, how annoying!   I started mine last night too, got onto my third page and thought I've only done me, how long will this end up being when I start on the rest of the family?!

Sharon