The Huish Clan, can anybody help me.

[gilmore]

Hence digging out as much as I can. I would greatly love to know simply where it all began. As far as conflicting angles go, I think when your dealing with information that is based on another's facts, you need to eat the meat and spit out the bones. ...

That's very true. I have a cousin who says that he never accepts anything as a fact until he can hold the original document in his hands---and even then there are sometimes misrepresentations.

The further back we go, the more we rely on secondary and tertiary sources, unfortunately, and the more time we spend digging through information that isn't as accurate as we would like.

The only way to be sure is to go back one generation at a time, starting with one's parents, checking the info that you have against sources that are as close to the original as you can get. It is a slow, labor-intensive process, but it is more reliable.

On the bright side, genealogical resources are much more easily available than they were a few years ago. No more hours spent in musty courthouses.

A word of warning: trying to take short cuts doesn't work very well. For example, there may be a well-researched line going from, say, 100 to 300 years ago, but the nearer end of the line's connection to what you have established may not be solid. If you start off researching the more distant beginning of that line, spend a couple of years, and work out where it came from, only to then discover that they are not your people at all, it can be very disappointing.

It's like building a house with a solid foundation, and then building each story sturdily on top of the lower one, so that it doesn't all come crashing down around you.