Getting things wrong

Its amazing how some researchers can misinterpret some information. Years ago a lovely elderly couple contacted me regarding family research. The wife had been at school with my dads sister who died aged 13 and she sent me a lovely school photo and weve kept in touch ever since. They have been stuck on the wifes family tree for a while so I offered to help. They are only on GR but the info they have got is so mixed up, I just couldnt believe it. Mainly because, as we all know there are lots of sons and daughters with the same name as parents etc.
As Ive not been doing any other trees at the moment, Ive been happy to help and have now sorted it all out for them. They havnt seen it all yet but Im sure they will be amazed. They do have lots of photos to add which is great.

I know Ive been stuck so many times, and you really have to dig and dig and hope you strike lucky.

So good luck all you Family researchers. Have fun too as I am

Sorry for rambling, but I just wanted to share this with you
07:51 Sat 07th Apr 2012
 
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Getting mixed up? All too easily done.
On the plus side, if you do find loads of the same names, you know you have the right tribe, if not the right family....
Well done on sorting the confusion!
Yes well done, the sign of as good genealogist is the ability to look at someone's tree and spot the errors, it's not easy when the research has already supposedly been done.
things like
I was stuck on a particular ancestor on my husband's side for years, it took the 1901 census release to solve it. On her daughter's birth certificate, the child's father , when asked the mothers maiden name, had given his own mother's maiden name, not his wife's! I bought the certificate in 1987 and spent over a decade trying to find a marriage for the parents! As it happened they only married 5 years after the child's birth anyway, which didn't help.

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