« Reply #91 on: Wednesday 14 October 15 10:29 BST (UK) »
Before I comment I will say I am like an earlier poster (paraphrased) ''I don't subscribe to the theory but I keep an open mind as to possibilities''
When I first saw the title to this I wondered if it was going to be about those name collectors who put someone in because '' it feels right''
Yet I really cant complain as I am not convinced on one possible link because '' it doesn't pass the smell test'' - something is telling me I need to be cautious in adding this name to my list.
Yet I can spot that it is good scientific reasoning behind this. Check check check and only enter the data you have. Not what you might have. Its the same as looking for something. By continuing to look you narrow your search parameters until you find what you want. So when someone says '' I stumbled upon the gravestone'' it could well be '' I looked everywhere and this was my last possibility.'' Yet no psychic link would have been made if it was found first.
''something told me to look here'' could well be the brain working away in the background connecting information and experiences until a thought forms.
Well wasn't that a bucket of cold water 
Not really
Agreed it's always best to check everything as thoroughly as possible especially when there's a gap in the early church bmd records. I probably won't be taking my Speight line any further back because of the awful church records that do still exist, all due to the vicars in the local Yorkshire churches who entered minimal details. An example of baptisms were "William s of William". No mention of occupation or of the child's mother. This isn't good enough when a father called William has seven sons in a span of say 25 years and each son names his first son William. This means that there's seven entries of seven cousins called William who each name a son in favour of its grandfather, the original William. There's a big query about whether all those seven Williams actually had a son, what if one or two only had girls and some of the baptisms were for "spare" or "replace" Williams? Additionally due to the original 25 year span where a cousin could be aged 20 or 45+, how can one be sure the new father is of the same generation?
As for your querying the cemetery experiences, etc. Scientists have gone some way to recognising the functions of some parts of the brain and actually acknowledge there's one part of the brain that could be related to a sixth sense but as yet haven't got conclusive proof. If that part of the brain holds centuries of inherited memory cells then that could explain being pulled towards a grave and it could even explain why somebody "sees" (a memory of?) a figure near a grave. Memory cells don't explain why some people appear to "see" into the future though.
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