Re: "Trained Researcher" - that means absolutely nothing.
Don't assume you are the one who has it wrong.
(Training is not the same as educating, by the way - perhaps she means she's "sat by Nellie" until she knows what Nellie knows - and an open, curious mind is important when seeking the past of most families, isn't it, rather than ploughing along one deep furrow in the same way as always).
People on here will check everything out. You have a bevy of experts at your command, a resource unequalled. Can she have the same? Being an "expert" on Chartism doesn't mean being an expert on each and every Chartist.