On the other hand, I have a book written by a man in 1887 covering the genealogy of more than 5000 people over a 200 year period. All the info was in his head and dictated to a local reporter. Doesn't sound very promising, does it? Howwever, I (and many other interested people!) have checked the facts against church regs, bmds, wills, census, newspapers and so on and the book is astonishingly accurate with only the most minor of details wrong - Mary for Margaret, for instance.
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