« on: Sunday 27 March 05 16:47 BST (UK) »
I thought I was corresponding with a new 'fourth' cousin who had two email addresses, then find out it is two different people with the same name, both researching the same person as me!! 
Duplication!
Family Research can be so frustrating
when our ancestors start duplicating!
Of our Phineas there is more than one,
one date is right, but which one is wrong?
They’re both married to a lady called Betty,
how inconsiderate..! And rather petty.
And now they have got us so confused
over the children that they produced;
all were born within a span of five years,
in the same place, it could drive you to tears.
And now, just to make matters worse
(apart from putting the problem in verse!)
I have two contacts, one is related
and the other could be, we’ve speculated!
They have the same name, both first and last,
a problem for future genealogists I forecast!
And now this researchers memory is flagging,
I think my brain is in need of defragging!
Jackie S Brooks
27 March 2005
Names: Brooks, Hall, Illingworth, Mallaby, Pybus, Selby, Winstanley
Research areas: UK: Kent, Sussex, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland
USA: Virginia, N. Carolina, Tennessee
