Hi MauriceLee
Welcome to Roots Chat. You will find a great deal of help within this web site and many people waiting to provide suggestions, solutions or critique your research. So enjoy.
I see you do not understand what I posted regading the intial quest for help in regards to Matthew and Phoebe.
So what dont you understand exactly?
The data I posted is from the transcribed PR's (Parish Records) for the church in Hook Norton. The PR's are available to purchase, on CD. from the Oxfordshire Family History Society and as of this month they are also viewable on Ancestry.
Census information is ok but often they can be inaccuarte, the data recorded relied upon both the literacy of the person providing the information - who most probably had limited reading and writing skills, calenders were scant, the church cycle was more used than calenders as today.
The census innumerators sometimes had limited skills as well.
Then we have to consider accent, colloquisims of dialect regions and also lost words for some places, trades and such like. So whilst the census information is crucial it can also miss lead - just a word of warning.
Dont worry abot transmitting census information most of us on here will be able to see that data. Sometimes it is useful to have the census record reference number but not esssential. Personally I can see the census for the people being discussed on this thread anyway.
The data may well not be accurate it may well conatin errors and it may well be be irrelevant buttttt the data is an extraction of what has been transcribed and it remains the researchers responsibility to decipher the offered information and accept, consider in the future or reject it.
Often when we as individulas come along and read posts they may not make sense or the posts may reveal previously unknown or incorrect information within family folklore, records, research or what ever - thats why this whole Family History can be so frustrating and yet such fun.
So do let me know what you cant understand and I wil offer an opinion but even that opinion may conflict or contradict - lets see?
NDRFT
P.S - I wont be looking on Facebook, I use this site for research help!