ancestry.com migraine....

[dowofbuchanan]

well with a history like that id have to say MacBraggart!

[flyrod6057]

well with a history like that id have to say MacBraggart!

HA!

[Burly Brute]

Ugh, I have since cancel my subscription and put things on hold--somewhat. It seems much of the time to be an overwhelming burden.

[PEEDYC]

Some years ago I started a family tree but got stuck as my great grandfathers marriage did not appear anywhere. I managed to trace it via his wife's side :- the reason, his name had been misspelled. I asked for a copy of the record only to find that it was "the bans" and not the wedding that was recorded. On a single page in the Parish Register there were around 16 names having the bans read. Only two had records of marriage written in underneath the bans record. I managed to get my tree back as far as 1790 but when my ancestor stated in a later census that he was Irish I stopped.

The problem is that many records are in Parish or Church records and depend on whoever is recording them being able to spell assuming that the people giving the information can spell too and that the information is still available. Many Irish records were destroyed over the years.

I set up a web site and through it found a cousin in Canada and one in the USA and picked up a few pen pals with the same name along the way.

I tried writing enclosing a copy of the relevant part of my tree to some people with the same name living close to where my ancestors were born and bred. None replied. One even worked with my sister in law and even when told it was a genuine request for information she still did not respond. I suppose you are either interested or not. My children aren't!

Nothing goes on my tree unless it has been verified.

I wish you good luck.