Huguenot and other research distractions

[3sillydogs]

Trying to connect names can make your head spin. 

My ancestors use of the same two christian names in various permutations, given willy nilly to sons, nephews, uncles never in a straight line.  Is that the mother's maiden name in there or is it just there? The male names that actually turn out to have been given to daughters.

Thank goodness for the weekly newspaper that kindly wraps all the glossy adds in blank newspaper, which I use in an (sometimes futile) attempt to join the dots
 

[pinefamily]

Thanks, Jan. That makes sense once you explain it.

3SD, butcher's paper works for me.  I used to use the kids' leftover pads and books when they were at school, but that source is long gone unfortunately.

[ThrelfallYorky]

I agree about the Huguenots in Canterbury.
Recently I've been trying to do some research not on any of my own lines, but for the maternal and paternal lines of a woman who became a second wife to an ancestor of mine, so a relative, but mostly different lines.
I found a Huguenot connection for her, and that led back from London to Canterbury, and was surprised, like you, how many interlinked families there seemed to be in the community.... and I kept getting distracted along every sideline...
-But then I find I often get sidelined by "just" looking at the next page... and the next one ....

[pinefamily]

I think my worst distraction was seeing something the minister wrote about a couple in a marriage register. I can't remember the wording but he wasn't very flattering, so I thought I should look at the couple. Apparently had all their children before marrying, and while both of their current partners were still alive.

[3sillydogs]

An interesting scandalous "event" for someone's tree

 

[pharmaT]

I came across a death in Glasgow in 1900 cause Bubonic plague.  Not my rellie but I read a lot about it was fascinating.

[3sillydogs]

I always tell people that I have learnt so much more about my own country's and others history and how people lived since I started doing family research, much more than I ever learnt in a school history class.

[pharmaT]

I always tell people that I have learnt so much more about my own country's and others history and how people lived since I started doing family research, much more than I ever learnt in a school history class.

Absolutely has worn off on my daughter too.  Teachers regularly tell her "you're not supposed to know that"

[3sillydogs]

And much more interesting than a history class.....