Lemmings!

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Threlfall Gorky the worst lemmings of all ate the ones who just collect thousands of names and don't even have a real connection to the people they add. I've had a big part of my tree added to another by someone who wasn't even related to me. That's the reason I took mine off line. 

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Josey, next time I get one, I'll give the pundits a call lol :-)
My first attempt at reading them is a magnifying glass, the final go, when steam's coming out my ears  Is to go over the writing very lightly with a fine pencil to try and get into the style, that works sometimes 

[pinefamily]

Sometimes looking at the whole page can help you too, H-G. By looking at other entries, you can start to see the style, and the letters become legible (sometimes  ).

[pinefamily]

The online trees are a useful tool though, errors and all. Sometimes when I'm stuck, I will browse online trees, Ancestry and otherwise, to see if anyone has my missing ancestor. Even if only to rule out something, I sometimes find an avenue to explore that I hadn't thought of. Just the other day, stuck on a collateral ancestor, I typed his name into the Public Trees on Ancestry. Lo and behold, he appears on several trees as going to New Zealand! A couple of trees had him as a direct ancestor, so using them as a guide, I looked at records for myself, and it is indeed my missing man. So I have more relations across the Tasman apparently.
So the online trees, as bad as some are, can still be a tool in our research.

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Pinefamily yes indeed! I've looked through a few trees in the past, no-one seems to be tracing the ones I really want though.
I haven't started on NZ yet but I heard I had rellitives there somewhere, sheep farmers. I'm a way off looking for them. I did trace a very distant family member that moved to Australia though, mid 1850's. She and her husband started a dynasty  I contacted the person who'd put a tree on all the way back to this couple but he was only interested in the male line.

[Janelle]

But are you sure you got it wrong, and not everyone else? 

RE : John Greenslade of Exford, and my solo lemming adventure ...

Oh no, pinefamily  I truly got it wrong.

I was out in my generations and parishes too. When I ventured into the Stoate / Sidifin / Greenslade / Wheddon world of Selworthy I found another Greenslade researcher who descends from William b 1716 brother of my John b 1714.

I salute this generous person who shared transcriptions he had made of leases and wills. I was able to understand how John's son Thomas got leases in Cutcombe and Exford because of the marriage settlement he and his folks signed, or put their mark to.


And of course I went shopping at Somerset Heritage Centre for my own copies of these beautiful and fascinating documents.

[Janelle]

The online trees are a useful tool though, errors and all. Sometimes when I'm stuck, I will browse online trees, Ancestry and otherwise, to see if anyone has my missing ancestor. .... <snip> .... A couple of trees had him as a direct ancestor, so using them as a guide, I looked at records for myself, and it is indeed my missing man. .... <snip> .... So the online trees, as bad as some are, can still be a tool in our research.

  I have found a tree with my 5 x great uncle Simon Warren, and stating he was married to Eliza Hawkins. Scary as that would be his sister. I politely pointed this out, got a thankyou and promise to fix that, with the interesting news that Simon b 1814 descends from John Henry b 1856 (that is the son is father of his father ) and so I enquired again and was told that there is grandpa J H as well, didn't ya know 

I thought this furphy can't be in the tree, just in the conversation, but alas, and unless he and his wife are time travellers, hmm

[LizzieW]

And my relative was in 2 places in 1871, but he'd left his wife and children, she for whatever reason, put him on the census when he was actually in a different county, probably hiding from her  she was a bit of a wildcat.

My 2 x g.grandmother was on the 1861 census twice.  Once in Boston as head of household and dressmaker with her 3 children, and then with her husband in Staffordshire and their 3 children. She is shown as a visitor dressmaker.  I have no idea how that happened.  Either she filled in the Boston census and then left to join her husband in Staffordshire, where he then filled in the Staffordshire census, or like your ancestor, my 2 x g.grandfather just filled in his family even though they lived apart. 

[coombs]

I have one who managed to cut himself in half in 1861 and was in two villages. Thomas Musgrave, born Croft, Yorkshire, aged 66 living with his wife in Evenwood Barony in Durham, and visiting a married child Henry in Coundon. Coundon and Evenwood are 8 or 9 miles apart.

Not as bad as 1911 when householders filled in themselves and put children who had left home and had lines cross through them as they were not with their mum anymore.