Take a second look..you may be surprised !

[dowdstree]

Keep on looking and digging it is never ending who or what you may discover that you missed the previous times.

That's the fun and hard detective work involved with a family tree.

All those dead people were as much alive as we are at sometime.

Dorrie

[clairec666]

I'll always see my tree as a "work in progress" and whenever new records are released they shed light on some hidden corners.... Admittedly though there are some parts of my tree I don't look back over because I feel they're complete - a big mistake, of course, who knows what I could be missing?

[Roger The Hat]

I'm convinced that the big FH websites "drip feed" information into their databases to ensure customers keep renewing their subscriptions...............!
 
Roger The Cynical Hat.
 

[DavidG02]

While I think that is highly likely Roger I will also acknowledge the time taken to transcribe records.

I will always have another look , more when I am stuck on the current name. There will always be another record set to look into

[alveleyhistorian]

Some interesting observations..many thanks.
A handy tip for anyone looking at registers online...from my own experience many of the main subscription sites have special offers..a month for one pound etc..that's the time to really indulge..

[bykerlads]

Yes, always worth revisiting old research.
I totally missed the fact that my grtgrtgranmother had twins. I had thought that it was bad enough to give birth aged barely 16 and to lose the child at a few weeks through " want of milk" that it hadn't occurred to me that there could have been twins. The other baby also died but a few weeks later.
Poor little souls.
Grtgrtgran went however to raise 11 other children in very modest circumstances. Well done, gran!

[lizdb]

It is lovely when you see someones life turn around like that.

My gran as the youngest of a large family. We knew that when her mother and father married, her father was a widower with 3 small children. The lady he married was a widow aged 30.

When we researched her more closely we found that from her first marriage she actually had had 2 children. One died aged 3, and the other as a baby. She then lost her husband. As she turned 30, she could well have been thinking marriage and motherhood had passed her by.  She then married my great granddad, and "took on" his family, I am sure as she stepped into the role as mother to these children she must have missed her own children badly.
However, she went on to have 6 more children, my grandma being the youngest!

[bugbear]

Much as I normally detest and deplore the expression "living document" ... it is strangely appropriate for a family tree.

Agreed.

Best to take the scientific view - it's never "The Truth", it's always just your best approximation to "The Truth" given current evidence.
 
   BugBear