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CRIPES_A_MIGHTY

CRIPES_A_MIGHTY Report 16 May 2009 17:48

having trouble getting the tree software to except dates before 1000.

It will not accept the dates before this time.


gfather born 0891

father born 0933

son born 0958

Continually telling the the child has to be younger than his father.

HE IS!!!!...but it will not accpet it and so will not save.

Any ideas?

Researching:
Wilson, Johnson/Johnston, Wicks, May, Tuck, Gunter, Hodges

MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 16 May 2009 19:08

How have you got that far back!!!?

Researching:
Pool/Poole?Overs/Hovers/Hovard?Bucket/Bouquet? Thank goodness i havent got a Smiff!........yet

CRIPES_A_MIGHTY

CRIPES_A_MIGHTY Report 16 May 2009 20:31

I have been fortuante to have family links to noble families on both sides.
And being these families are of noble birth etc.. then information about the family lines have already been very well documented.
This allows you to go back some considerable time.

Also there are links between both sides of my family dating back some considerable time. This opens up lots more avenues to explore.

The chances are you to are also related to these nobles...because the further you go back...the more likely you are to share certain ancestors with the majority of the worlds population.

If you go back say 23 generations......you will have some 2million + grandparents...let alone aunts and uncles etc.
And for every subsequente generation..this will double!.

So in essence....somewhere along the line...we are all related!....its just a case of when & where you link to other folks.

I only have 6500 folks in my tree.....so thats just the tip of the iceburg.

Researching:
Wilson, Johnson/Johnston, Wicks, May, Tuck, Gunter, Hodges

Libby22

Libby22 Report 17 May 2009 01:46

Boogie,

Please may I ask, how have you proved the links?

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 17 May 2009 11:07

My wife also has connections to a family with noble origins, the Earls of Stafford and Buckinghamshire are her distant relatives.

As Boogie says, once you have a connection to the 'noble' line then the likilihood is that the pedigree is well documented throughout the ages.

One of her ancestors served with Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France and he in turn was descended from one of William the Conqueror's followers who arrived in 1066. Before that, the family has been traced back to around 770 in Scandinavia.

There is little point in trying to corroborate all of this as it has already been well published over the years by others. What is of more interest it trying to trace your link back to the established noble line, using mainly the parish registers. Proving that you have the correct one is another matter, as with all research.