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Old 21-07-19, 17:29
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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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Old 21-07-19, 17:59
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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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Old 21-07-19, 18:28
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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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Old 23-07-19, 09:31
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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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Old 23-07-19, 11:16
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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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Old 01-08-19, 13:27
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If you aren't enjoying it stop.
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Old 06-08-19, 11:48
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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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