[taddy]

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1272537]Taddy I belong to Ancestry, Find my Past and FamilySearch.
You might ask why, but it is to enable me to cross reference information and to check the sources and documentation.
There are people who will add information to their family trees without checking that it is correct.
I would not add an ancestor without their being some documented evidence to ensure they belong on my tree.
This hobby is brain bashing and very very addictive.

Marge, I totally agree, before I download anything to Hazels and my tree I always, Always, check it on official records, i.e. Census returns or immigration records etc, I have seen too many people that have put the birth of their ancestors as for example as 1600 and their death as maybe 1565, most of them and I am not being raciest against the Yankee Doddle Dandies, (well maybe a little bit), come from America where they can only trace the history of their country back to the "second War of Independence of 1812, where as we Brits have history that goes back over two thousand years.
I was never much good at maths at school, although Milton Suthers did his best too help me because he was, as you know our games master as well and I was one his favorites because I loved Sports but I also enjoyed history and the teacher who taught us, whose name escapes me; (please help), inspired a love of the past that I still have. Sorry to go on a bit but a few pints of Hobgoblin does make me natter a bit, you should listen to me when I am with my elderly mates in the Peel Park Pub on a Saturday Afternoon, Or maybe not.