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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« on: Monday 21 January 19 15:11 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: a chesters on Saturday 19 January 19 22:37 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Edward Scott on Saturday 19 January 19 19:19 GMT (UK)
Quote from: petrochemist on Saturday 19 January 19 19:16 GMT (UK)
Another my GGG GF married 3 times with a total of 15 kids (no wonder his wives didn't last!) Large families & multiple sequential marriages were not uncommon in those times.
I think he did quite well to last :)

Just think, three mothers in law :o :o :o

He escaped that. I don't know about his first mother in law, but the mother of his 2nd & 3rd wives died a couple of years before he married either of them

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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry tree rubbish
« on: Saturday 19 January 19 19:16 GMT (UK)  »
My Father in law would probably fail most sense checks.
He was born in India, of a father born in New Zealand.
Whilst in the army he moved around quite a bit so his children were born in England, France & Iraq.

None of this is from on-line research but direct information from the family.

Another my GGG GF married 3 times with a total of 15 kids (no wonder his wives didn't last!) Large families & multiple sequential marriages were not uncommon in those times.
As a surgeon, with a relatively rare surname is relatively easy to confirm it's the same person. Though there were multiple marriages between his family & his first wife's family over the years (He later married her sister something that only became legal shortly before).

There are certain lots of highly dubious 'sources' but merely not complying with modern norms does not make data wrong.

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The Common Room / Re: What Country is your research ?
« on: Tuesday 15 January 19 14:26 GMT (UK)  »
My father was Dutch, a grandmother Belgian & a great grand mother German. So mainland Europe features quite heavily!
Things get even more complicated however, my Father in law was born in India, and several of his relatives were/are resident in New Zealand.
Of course there are also branches of my tree that have emigrated to America, South Africa, Australia...
The only continents I don't know of are South America & Antarctica!

Despite the wide spread most of my successful research has been with relatives in England. Fortunately it's helped by both Mother & father having uncommon surnames ;)

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