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It's becoming a stamp collection
I do enjoy family history, but I'm finding myself doing the tree the Ancestry way: ooh look, another ancestor: snap!
Not only is this ultimately deeply unsatisfying, but it's wrong. I'm contemplating a 1764 marriage in Lincolnshire for a couple whose apparent eldest child is born in Norfolk in 1773. Not impossible, but deeply improbable. What do you do when research starts to feel trivial?
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I usually know I have done enough when I am pleased that people have died before having too many children, so I don't have to add masses of them to my tree.
When this happens I open a bottle of wine!
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Ha! My Greens of Gawsworth were very easy to find and I found myself breathing a huge sigh of relief when I finally hit the wall in 1498 and could honestly tell myself it was ok to stop researching them! I became (whisper it) bored with them round about 1665 lol.
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Hmm. I think the further away in time they are the less "real" they seem. I am not too bothered at having to stop going further back. But there are some gaps in more close ancestors that I would like to fill.
It's odd though, how I feel an affinity for some more than others. I am fond of my great x 3 grandmother Kezia Seals/Saul/Sales as it took me years to find her baptism and once I'd managed that I could go back several further generations. I felt I'd got the basic facts for her, given her parents and siblings. I was also glad to find a female NOT called Ann, Elizabeth, Mary or Sarah!
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire |
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I was really hoping that DNA would help fill my gaps in the Irish lines I have got brickwalls but so far nothing has come up.
So many people do DNA tests but don't have trees so have no idea where they match with my trees.
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If you aren't enjoying it stop.
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I have gone back to my first love local history. I don'the mind that they are not my ancestors.
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