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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: siouxie366 on Tuesday 31 August 10 18:35 BST (UK)
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For all of you who are struggling to find "that" elusive ancestor - just don't give up! I've been searching for a very elusive ancestor for about five years, and today - just by chance - I happened across a family tree that had this very person listed.
How excited was I??? Quite a big gap has now been filled, and perhaps relatives might be happy to get in touch. There's lots of help out there, especially from this site, so keep digging!!
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Well done! Very happy for you that you struck gold ;D
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I re-iterate this message 'Do not give up'.
Several years ago I was persuing a family line and could not figure out where a certain chap called ...... Bright had gone. I searched and searched but to no avail. He came from Newcastle and then just disappeared. I thought he might have died but the BMD didn't help. As his Great Grandfather was from London I looked again at the London records for that time.
Guess what, I found him under the spelling Broyitt in a marriage in London.
Imagin the scenario. 'What is your name' 'Bright' (with a Geordie accent becomes 'Broyitt'). The Parish clerks were not always so clever as to interpret accents and many misspellings must have occurred when the person in question either married, had children, or died, away from their roots. Especially when the informants themselves, may not have been literate.
Just a thought to bear in mind.
Pennine