Genealogy Chat

I have just located a line of 'Tribes' up to my gr x12 grandfather (b. c.1520) on the Pedigree Resource File on familysearch.org........... Do I trust it, use it as a guide or disregard it? It has some definite dates, but no places. For this line I had only found gr x4 grandfather (b. c.1722). I so want to use it as a guide, but is it safe? Trudi

Personally, I would say - take it as a guide. Take note of all the info BUT look for proof at every stage. This find is obviously so exciting and it MAY all me correct, but check every detail so that you know what you are adding is correct. What a find !! Dea x

How exciting ! I would say not without checking.... :( Could you take the info given and check it against records yourself? Think of it as a tool rather than something to be accepted as gospel?

Hi I would tend to use it as a guide untill I had verification. But that's just me. It should be an excellent starting point which should make verification alot easier to do. Just my thoughts. Cheers Paul

As I am a complete cynic, I would say, dont bother copying it all, check out the generation before the one YOU have proved. If that is correct, then move back another generation and so on! I would personally very wary of any record which did not have PLACES on it. I have wasted many a long hour copying this stuff, only to realise later that its mostly guesswork. Having said that, I have got one of my lines back to 1480 - but that was all my own work! OC

OC You fraud! I thought you'd got back to your gt X megalots grandparents Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden census???!!!

Brilliant - thank you all for your comments. I am now hopeful but very cautious! Finding something like this does give you a rush of adrenalin! WOW and then again it could all be fiction. Good luck to everyone! Trudi

1480!!!!!!!! We all envy you, old crone. Im SOOO nosey I know, but who were they? How did they live?

Trudi When I first had access to the Internet, I found 'my' family on LDS pedigree files, right back to the year dot. I was so excited, I printed it all off, ream upon ream of it. It was weeks before it occurred to me to CHECK it. My 4 x GGM, had, according to this file, 44 children. 3 were born before she was and five after she died.. She married her own son when he was five, had three or four children in the same year, two of whom were born 2 days apart - she baptised one the same day in one Parish and then walked 12 miles the other way to baptise the other. It took me months to get to the bottom of it all - seven different men (all with the same name, though) and five different women. Some of the children never got born at all - well, not when and where this tree said, which was jolly interesting considering that one who was never born at all, went to America, married five times and had 14 children! Beware, my friends! OC

OC That must have been really frustrating for you, but thank you so much for sharing it. It's a real good lesson in not taking things at face value as well a typical genealogy anecdote! Regards and good wishes Trudi

Oh, Rebekah! You don't know how much I have longed for someone to utter those words! LOL. The Green family of Gawsworth obliged me greatly by living in the same Farmhouse for at least 350 years. They were big fishes in a little pond and everything is carefully documented in the Parish Register. All the Green men left me a Will to find, and some of the Green women did, too. The earliest reference I have to this family is a Tommas Grene of Molardes Farm who died in 1480. I suspect the family were there long before that too, but I havent found any earlier records. They have been wonderfully easy to trace and I am very fond of them - I spend hours thinking about them, what they did each day and what they looked like. The Farm still exists today, although it was gussied up in the 1800s, by the look of it. Sadly, the male line failed in the early 1900s and the females have all been lost in marriage. OC

One of my ggg grandfather's is on the IGI with a birth date which would make him 8 when he married for the first time. The submitter has obviously guessed his birth date from his third marriage. He has caused me a few headaches. His second and third wives were Virtue and Jemima Shearn both born Midsummer Norton 1800. He died aged 92 after having outlived three wives!! Having been christened Alexander after his greatgrandfather he appears on the census as Saunders. Remember a lot of records on the IGI were submitted from America by people who might not have had much local knowledge or known how common names were in the locality.

Lol. Youve done brilliantly Old Crone. Im amazed some of you don't do this professionally!