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Old 16-06-21, 02:16
Pinefamily Pinefamily is offline
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Default Barking up the wrong tree

Feeling the need to vent some frustration.
You would think that after 40 or so years of research (on and off), I would be more careful in checking every fact thoroughly. And learn not to fully trust the big two's indexing algorithms.
Using FMP's Devon resources, I was able to find a marriage for my ancestor John Harris of Hennock to Elizabeth Comynge (sic) in Bishopsteignton. So far so good. I worked out that Comynge was actually Comyns, and FMP clumped Comynge and variants separately to Comyns and variants. I made great headway with tracing the Comyns family, or so I thought.
Last night I accidentally left off the "e" from a Comynge search, and discovered that there were different results again. As a result, I discovered that the Elizabeth Comynge I had found a baptism for, was buried a year later. Back to the drawing board for me.
The lesson learned? Look through the images instead of relying on the indexing.
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