3.45 am blues

[suttontrust]

Just a rant because it's 3.45 am and I can't go to bed because I have a heavy cold and can't breathe if I lie down.  Hoping some genealogy will put me to sleep!  But a genuine rant against careless registrars.  I'm researching my friend's family history and we got totally stuck with one of her grandfathers.  On his son's birth certificate in 1915 he's Charles John Scott.  In 1937, on the same son's marriage certificate, he's Charles William Scott.  Okay, assume he's Charles.  I did find a Charles Scott of the right sort of age and pursued him back, but with no way of proving he was the right one.  Dead end.  But a month ago I posted something about "Charles" and his wife on the lovely Salford Heritage Service forum.  Nothing until this Friday, when the librarian there took pity on me and looked up the directories for the address I knew.  Lo and behold, he's John Charles Scott.  And armed with that I've been able to find him on the 1901 etc and trace him back to 1782.  Why were registrars so careless?

[RJ_Paton]

   Perhaps he (or she) had a heavy cold and wasn't getting much sleep either ...... my own personal rant is against family members who insist on pepetuating a myth because they don't want the truth to be revealed no matter how much evidence is stacked up to demolish that myth. 

[suttontrust]

Agreed.  There were lots of myths in the Scott / Snelgrove family I'm tracing, but fortunately my friend doesn't mind having them demolished.  She was certain her Snelgrove grandfather came from Ireland.  He didn't, but his grandmother did. 

[suey]

Downright liars are the bane of my life  - add to that a rellie who 'knows all' but wont' tell 

        

[bel_jon68]

Hi Falkyrn and Suey

I totally agree with you!!!!  I cannot convincingly trace a whole half of my family tree because one parent was adopted, knows they were adopted, but pretends they were not...they even talked about tracing my (adoptive) grandmother's tree as if it were my own!!!

Grrrrr...

Bel