Lemmings!

[Gone]

LizzieW I found the second one by chance but it made more sense than the one where he was still with his wife. It really helped me out with several newspaper articles too that related to "Luke Hulme, Biddulph" and proved it was one of the others in the village, I think there were 4 "Luke Hulme's" in biddulph at the time. If I could go back and talk to a relative from my past, this would be the one   

[Gone]

Climbs I know what you mean about the 1911 census. My welsh family were keen on adding children long since gone 

[LizzieW]

Lots of people have found children that were born and died between censuses when the parents added them in error to the 1911 census.  The enumerators only crossed them out, not like today where they "redact" with thick black lines.

[coombs]

I was contacted on Ancestry by someone who has Lawes in their Suffolk ancestors, like I do. My one was Mary Lawes born in 1662 in Wingfield. This contact had a Ann Lawes born in 1724 to parents Thomas and Frances and she married in Wissett, 8 miles from Wingfield in 1748. On their trees they have no info yet on where they found her baptism. She died in 1787 aged 60. Rather than just add her willy nilly to my tree I shall like to prove a link to my Lawes. I did find a Thomas Lawes wed to Frances Bungay in 1719 in Denham near Wingfield. I am sure she is connected as most Lawes came from the Wingfield area. But rather than take their tree as gospel I shall try and find myself, as they have no source of info on her baptism as yet.

[jbml]

I think that some of these may be inadvertent lemmings, you know.

I tried, for a very short while, to build and maintain an online tree; but I didn't find it a particularly helpful tool so I gave it up. I'ts still there, apparently, because I keep getting e-mails saying that somebody has added something to it!

The bottom line is, I didn't understand the programme that was running it. Every so often it would say to me "here is a match", and I would go and look at that tree, and be given the choice of "yes, it's a match" or "no, it's not a match".

If i said "Yes, it's a match", did the programme automatically import all that other person's information (egregious errors in other parts of the tree and all) into my tree?? I don't know. But if it did, then my tree (which I no longer maintain) may look like a "lemming tree" in relation to other people's research errors. But if  so, it's not because I mindlessly copied their information; it's because I simply agreed with the computer that certain ancestors they were showing in their tree are the same as certain ancestors I am showing in mine (i.e. there is a "match").

Just a thought ...

[ThrelfallYorky]

What amuses me is that online trees never have matches to one whole side of a line I've been following and documenting for years. Am I all wrong? Or do they belong to a family totally uninterested in on-line genealogy?

[pinefamily]

They won't have matches if the little leaves don't tell them. 

[Ianjamsie]

I couldn't believe someone posted a picture of my great great grandparents on here.

I only started looking because my youngest daughter has an iris coloboma and a rare blood type.

Mentioned it to my auntie ended up finding out half my family are from Cornwall, a whole load of them are from the same tiny town my folks moved to when I was 5.

And one of my relatives got a death row pardon after murdering an aston villa player.

Telegraph did an article on that in 2014.

[Janelle]

wow Ianjamsie

there is another thread running at present - infamous and famous - sounds like you could post there as well, if you haven't already 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=739970.msg5862320#msg5862320

Hope your daughter's prognoses is good.

Salute,

Janelle