Do you ever want to divorce your ancestors and find an easier lot to research?

[MacGrigor]

Regularly

[Sinann]

Rather than divorce them I'd like to move them to a parish that has records earlier that 1849.

[Rosinish]

No!!!

I sometimes wish the correct info. was attached to deaths such as maiden names which I have a few with informants being G/sons, Inmate (I think she was actually a sis-in-law), a Nephew (who I can't fit with any of the siblings families), I think he may be a g g/son?, a few who 'acquire' middle names post baptisms/marriages & one of the surnames isn't all that common!

I would have liked a few more middle names, real ones not 'acquired' as I have many families with doubles among siblings such as 2 sisters named Catherine, 2 brothers named John etc.

My g/mother was Maggy-Jane, exactly that on her birth & took an age to find....who would think to put a hyphen in a search  She had 2 sisterS named Margaret born 2 yrs apart, both married in different towns but too many with same name & a surname with variants, not knowing whether they used Margaret or Maggie I have kind of lost them in 1911 (Scotland) as the place of birth isn't indexed only the place where the census was taken 

It is though a great feeling when eventually cracked whether by myself or with help when I can't stand anymore headaches 

Annie

[barryd]

NO !

But I would move to Salt Lake City.

[pharmaT]

No, not divorce them.  I do get frustrated and want to give them a shake, for example when they are really inconsiderate and die 2 weeks before civil reg is introduced in Scotland.  BUT this hobby wouldn't be as addictive and satisfying if it all came too easy.

[coombs]

No but I wish I could find out the birthplaces of 3 of my ancestors who were alive and well in the 1841 census in London, Oxford and Essex respectively but God claimed them within 2 and a half years of the 1851 census. And the 3 ancestors all ticked "No" under "Whether born in county of residence". And one of them was James Smith of all names.

On the other hand I managed to recently solve the mystery over Elizabeth Harbord who wed Dennis Helsdon in Norwich in 1752. I finally found who her actual parents were.

[Bearnan]

No, but I do wish Mary Walsh and her parents had given us a clue as to where in Ireland the family came from. I wish I'd asked questions before it was too late, I have doubts that my grandmother Smith knew that her grandmother was Irish born.

[LizzieL]

Rather than divorce them I'd like to move them to a parish that has records earlier that 1849.

Me too, I have lines in Berkshire, Hampshire and Sussex - very little on line as original records. In some ways I am fortunate with researching less common surnames, but the downside is that rare surnames have far more spelling variations than Smith, Brown and Day.
OH has Essex, Herts and Suffolk - took out subs to FindMyPast, Ancestry and SEAX and got several generations back in a few days.

[Vance Mead]

I would be grateful if some of them had had the foresight to give their children names like Marmaduke or Scholastica. Instead they're all Thomas, Richard, Margaret and Anne.