Some amazingly well researched trees

[Rick]

I've seen family trees (on LDS?) which include someone born BC123 etc! Either someone is having a laugh or they're one piece short of a census

Clincher

I couldn't resist playing in the worldconnect site and found 1227 entries for Adam and Eve on people's submitted databases!!!

Now.....I have absolutely no wish to offend any person of faith, but surely this must be faith, and not proven fact.  Surely it would be absolutely impossible to produce a tree proving this?

Rick

[EmPers]

I also just found some on the world connect site, where people were claiming descendancy from Elizabeth I, who didn't have any children. And claims of Illegitimacy don't really work, people would notice if the Queen was pregnant I think....

[nutkin]

These people give us family historians a bad rep. I have spent a lot of time and money to find out about my family.  I want to do them justice by trying to find out the real story of how I came to be. My ancestors were no one famous but I am on a journey to make their lives known to me and to future generations.  Even if they were a tailor or ag laborer or iron worker or cotton weaver or the best is vermin catcher.  Their lives are unique and they would be amazed that we care so much to know about them. 

The high you get from finding and conifrming the "right" person cannot be found over night but after years of hard work.  You can tell a person who is searching for their roots by the glazed over look in their eyes and the excitment they have when they open the mail and they have to tell everyone they know they found the "missing" link!
- Kristin

[Clincher]

Kristin: the spirit that shines out of your words has made my day. I hope it is not always a long slog for you and that some of the time you catch 'em straight away

[nutkin]

Clincher,

Thank you for your kind words. You made my day!  Sone are easier than others and I love them all!
- Kristin

[KathyM]

I have had a few people contacting me re. my Walpole family in Norfolk --- mainly from America - who assume that because they have are a Walpole they are a descendant of 'your first prime minister! ....  I have never been able to find a connection ......

[Hackstaple]

KathyM - the Walpoles of Prime Minister fame were quite a large family and, of course, from Norfolk. It should not be so hard to trace back any ancestry that applies to that period. It was after the Civil War so Parish Records should be available.
I wouldn't write off the possibility.
On the other hand there were lots of Walpoles who were not from Norfolk - Cambridgeshire being notable.
Hack

[ryan]

I have used the IGI, although not extensivly, to create what a like to call a 'first draft' of my family tree. However, the vast majority of my information has been 'proven' using documentation and certification as well as colaborated information from fellow researchers. I just hope that people will contact me and speak with me before they use my first draft which I display on the net   It has happend before.

[RJ_Paton]

An article in a recent US newspaper claimed that statistics have shown that the presidential candidate with the most connections to Royal families in Europe has won every election

They are prediciting Kerry to win this one claiming links to 42 different European Royal familes (including the prolific Charlemagne) compared to Bush's links.