The Confession And Self Flaggelation Thread .....

[panda40]

Yes I followed the wrong line, when the GRO allowed you to cross reference mothers maiden name before 1912 I went back through my tree and found I had the wrong great great grandparents. Having spent hours researching this line at the archives I had grown attached to these relatives and knew a lot about them. It was like a divorce taking them out of my tree and putting all my research away.
So I started looking into the right people, this has opened up a can of worms with more problems and lies as well as dead ends. I can’t take to this line of my tree at all and it’s so frustrating. I want my non relatives back
Regards
Panda

[radstockjeff]

I have had some blind alleys in researching for my friend Roger in Melbourne.
Our introduction was unusual from a chance meeting of my son, who was living there ,and   Roger.

Roger knew little of the background of his gggfather George who had emigrated from England in1855.
On one of our visits to our Oz family we met Roger  and visited Carlton Cemetery. There was the family memorial showing George and Sarah.

First blind alley was the mismatch of George and Sarah but we got out of that one quite easily.

When I got back on the right track I established a marriage between George and Eliza in Wisbech.
George and Eliza had emigrated , with two of her sisters Sarah and Emma.
I had identified two families (Watson),in the right area of North Norfolk, both of whom had Sarah and Emma and both the fathers had been of a similar age and both of whom were in the building trade and both of whom at the time of the emigration had died.

Again I took the wrong turning and it took the help of a RC in Canberra to dig me out of that hole.

But what of Eliza, George's wife. Well, she died after about 4 years in Melbourne and George then married her sister Sarah.