We probably all do it from time to time, and me more than many.
Get carried away and make a connection that, if I'd bothered to take the time to really think it through, I would have realised couldn't be right. This isn't another rant about other people's inaccuracies (please), all I'm asking is which has made you laugh the most?
Personally I quite enjoyed the exploits of my great great great grandfather in Antrim, [no relation to Bruce Forsyth] who was, according to one tree, apparently swimming the Atlantic with monotonous regularity to simultaneously father children on both sides of the pond - for about 20 years. Oh yes, and using two surnames as well. Not bad for a penniless Ag Lab! If only the Olympic selection committee had known..
Tonight, I'm following back the line of Margery Colclough, born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire in 1647. An awful lot of people will be descended from this lady, but as I'm one of them I thought I'd see if I could get any further back. Well, yes, her baptism gives her parent's names: Johanis and Mariae.
Fair enough, I thought, it was probably Church formal recording, and I'll try John and Mary. Looked at the parish records and wondered if they were already recorded on a tree by anyone else. Eureka, on a well known site whose trees are so beloved of Rootschatters, there they both are (allegedly), and John's entry reads:
John Colclough - birth, 1621 Staffordshire
Death - 1642, Staffordshire
Marriage - 1646, Staffordshire
Birth of Margery: 1647, Staffordshire.
That's some feat! Made me laugh anyway. So what are your favourites?
