WHICH LINE SHOULD I FOLLOW??????

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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 216 Send Message	Kay	Report	29 Apr 2004 13:20
	Hi All Had a chat with my dad (who this elusive line belongs to) and he said go with the Donkin birth line as well. I'm glad in a way as I'd come to yet another brick wall with the Bransby line in 1813! Thanks for your comments Kay
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 2,953 Send Message	Lisa J in California	Report	28 Apr 2004 15:45
	Perhaps follow the one you "feel the most for", then when you start getting stuck, switch to the other one for awhile. Or both at once.
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	28 Apr 2004 14:12
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	I'd say follow the birth parents line.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 216 Send Message	Kay	Report	28 Apr 2004 14:09
	I have come across what is probably a common problem in genealogy but a new one to me. I have just discovered that my 2xG grandfather Robert Bransby was 'adopted' by his grandparents and took their name. He was born DONKIN to his grandmothers son by her first marriage. She married a BRANSBY and by the time of the 1881 census he had taken their surname. His daughter Mary was my nana's mother so we have always known them as Bransby. My dilemma is whether I now follow the Bransby line or the Donkin one. Any ideas???? Kay