Are we doing too much ?

[elin]

Just make things as difficult for future generations as you can from now.
Get married and divorced a couple of times, change your name whenever you feel like it, lie about your age and move about a lot.   

Give 'em something to worry about.

Elin

[Wiggy]

 
 

 

[tkgafs]

Just make things as difficult for future generations as you can from now.
Get married and divorced a couple of times, change your name whenever you feel like it, lie about your age and move about a lot.   

Give 'em something to worry about.

Elin

and if your maiden name is smith marry someone called smith

and call all your daughters jessie no matter how many there are

[Rishile]

...and don't forget to change the spelling of your name on every document

...and why not disappear for a few years - preferably a census year.

[elin]

and if your maiden name is smith marry someone called smith

and call all your daughters jessie no matter how many there are

and your boys too, that will throw them off the scent.

[KGarrad]

Or make sure that your children have the same names as your brother's children (or a family with the same surname) - and peferably they all marry someone with the same forename! 

Ever come across multiple John/Ann couples in the same town!! 

[Rishile]

Oh yes KGarrad

And don't forget to have your children within a month or two of your brother's children with the same name and born in the same town.  If possible, do this three or four times with each of your brothers.

[Tearose]

Great replies - I agree with the others on here, this will be a never ending hobby really - and will continue and grow into all directions, lands and sea's.

 

[tkgafs]

...and don't forget to change the spelling of your name on every document

...and why not disappear for a few years - preferably a census year.

We have one woman who dutifully appears in every census but is always born in where she was when the previous census took place, we think she answered the question where are you from with where ever she was last time !!

She has absolutely no idea what her age is either its utterly inconsistant

We have also have a grandfather who when he was registering a death seems to have used the first name that came into his head as a parents name, curiously this has actually been helpful in making links we would not have made, but makes searching difficult