« Reply #5 on: Monday 29 April 19 17:53 BST (UK) »
Ancestry can be a complete quagmire of repeatedly copied and unchecked sources. If I were you I'd start with the earliest family or person for which you can real evidence and records, research them as thoroughly as possible before trying to go back a generation.
Getting back to the 11th or 12th century is no use if it's fiction. Most of the lines I researched I have got back to the mid 1700s with some certainty using a combination of parish records and wills, some lines another generation further back.
It can be just as interesting and rewarding to build a picture of your ancestors using as many sources as possible, maps, old books, newspaper articles etc and really get a feel for them, as it is to get back to William the Conqueror etc.
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.
