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another full day of research
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Well each day lately is full of research and then more research...
Which is fantastic, and these days I am lucky enough to have spare cash to enable this...
So at the moment, am I fully paid up member of 2 mains sites...
So both open on the desk top at the same time --- thoroughly enjoying myself.
Reading Wills from the 1600's and discovering family that lived and worked in a village - just near where I live now ....
Some of the Wills have SO MUCH information and give details of sons daugthers and daughters husbands -- ok some are darn near illegible and my eyes cross attempting to decipher. But others are a real pleasure to read.
So information gathered I add to my tree on another site and then look for odds of information on that site. Which at one time was my main information gathering site.
However 'not so much' now.
For instance last night
I was chasing my 10th g.g. William Phillips - born c 1558 - possibly Leicestershire. His will was fantastic... but not sure if it mentioned his wife - but it did only mention TWO sons - so I was able to find the deaths of the other boys and one daughter (maybe not so sure about that yet.)
Then I browsed the Trees to see if I could access any added info... and
WELL I suddenly found that MY gg had relations that were from TIMBUCTOO and beyond -
Yet again a case of trust your OWN research - It is such a shame, that an extremely ONCE worthy site - has sold ?! or prostituted itself to 'Name gatherers'
Because for me the love of this Researching is to genuinely find MY ancestors.. and leave it somewhere for my children --- The mess that is on the Site NOW leads everyone up 'back alleys' to Nowhere --
EXTREMELY SAD
whoops this was not meant to be a moan... but it is leading me to the story of the
Hare and the Tortoise... because, in my mind the biggest so called fastest has proven to be far from the most reliable.
ok.. shutting up