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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Finley 1 on Wednesday 28 November 18 12:54 GMT (UK)
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I started this game a long time before many records became available... and used to plod around to find info.
I have just discovered that a record I have is WRONG
it seems in my PAF days I actually added the wrong husband to my Eliz... Clarke ---
I then carried the GED foward for all these years.. without double checking.. Until now when sorting her relation Ann - or Eliza Ann and making sure they were not one and the same..
OH dear me..
Now I have to go through all my EARLY work to double check.. and then again..
:o :o :o ::) ::) ::) ::) :-X :-X
xin
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Xin, I was wondering about starting a thread asking other rootschat people which contributor they would most like to meet. I'm not going to bother. You would win far and away. I always love your comments.
Martin
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OH Mart -- :) you have brought a smile to a miserable day :)
thank you xxx
cos I am nice really --- even when I loose it - I then hate myself for doing so..
I am now warm xxx even tho its cold and wet outside
xin
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Now I have to go through all my EARLY work to double check.. and then again..
Just the perfect way to spend some dark dismal days, I would have thought. ;)
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Perhaps we should all swap...? Perhaps we should start a new website, eGrey?
Martin
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Well
think I sorted her..
But would you believe the possibility is that she married a
John Brown........ phew...
still will work on it.
xin
E -Silver if you dont mind or did you mean grey areas not grey hairers... oh dear you see what you have started... going now.. work to do on DNA side now I have a little more understanding with the help of the sweetest person on here xx
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My cousin did the same thing. She has been researching for decades and announced to the entire family that our ancestor (her grandmother, I think?) was Ellen Gill but was born as Jane Ann. It wasn't until I started researching and asked if there was paper evidence of the name change or if it was word of mouth that we realised that there was indeed a birth for an Ellen but since this was long before internet she'd missed it (and Jane Ann was the only one she could find). Sadly there are a lot of cousins who still have the wrong information in their tree. At least it got figured out eventually! It does make me wonder how much information on my tree is actually unintentionally wrong though. If everyone on this site had a sudden epiphany and knew their ancestry with 100% accuracy, I wonder how many of our trees would be all wrong, not least because of NPEs!
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Well that was the saddest turn up...
After all these years of having my sweet Elizabeth 2nd great aunt alive and well till 1903...
Truth is the poor woman was only married for two years 1858 and died in 1860 I presume during childbirth.
I know this is correct and how on earth I took on the other family stupidly no idea.
This shows her recently widowed husband in the 1861 living with the rest of the family at Hydes...
sad sad sad
xin :-\
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Ayashi your comments about NPE are oh so true. I really can't understand why people bother researching prior to Victorian times because even if 1% of births are NPE, it makes a mockery of the rest of it.
Martin
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I did something similar and spent twenty years researching the wrong line. The only problem is I now know the names of my rightful ancestors but they are proving to be a big problem with false information and confusing information given on certificates etc. I much preferred the wrong family they were easier to trace.
Regards
Panda
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Ayashi your comments about NPE are oh so true. I really can't understand why people bother researching prior to Victorian times because even if 1% of births are NPE, it makes a mockery of the rest of it.
Martin
Of course, if your father or grandfather isn't actually blood related to you, oh what a mockery that makes right off the bat.
In any case, one has to trust the paperwork and trace the paperwork and that's the true challenge. Even if the father isn't blood related, he'd still have been the Dad so if nothing else he's the one who influenced the family tree even if he didn't actively contribute to the gene pool.
I use the DNA results to back up the paperwork but even that's not 100%... if the lady had a liaison with the father's brother, father, cousin, etc, the DNA would still come back related. I've got an illegitimacy in my family where one of four brothers is suspected to be the father but I have multiple matches to his father's side and none yet to his mother's side, although when I asked tree owners they all told me they'd not taken a test, so who knows there.
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This is the problem with doing family history, one mistake and you have the wrong family.
I started by going to the Local History and Archives departments and had 4 note books, (1 for each family.) But luckily several years ago my program went do and I had to go through my tree and I found several errors. One I had I thought they had died in infancy but they were married in another parish and they spelt the surname wrong. A lot of trees online have the original data and people are still following that.
With the advancement of online research it is getting easier to find these errors and I am still finding mistake and yesterday a regular rootschat contributor pointed out a mistake in my tree.
John
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Zin.can totally empathise
My mother spent 10 years researching her gmother Charlotte ROBERTS who'd left her therewith a foster family and goneback tio live with her parents in Birkenhead
mum
visited streets and graves where her ROBERTS ancestors had lived in WALES
Roots chat conversation led me to discover ours was a different Charlotte ROBERTS who lived nearby had similar profession
I spent a sleepless night thinking how to break it to my mum
But in the end the new Charlotte was more sympathetic younger and her mother had died when she was a teenager and she didn't go back to live with her parents
But took the birth father to court
And we have a DNA match wirh the grand son of her."repectable" marriage
Zin I have turned my family stories into performance comedy stories
I could definitely do a comedy sketch about people whose grandparents aren't who they think they are"
Silver linings as they say
I wish you luck with your new branch hope it doesn't take to long to "re.knit"