Genealogy

Some notes on the sources and methods used to compile and bring alive the lineage of a family

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This webpage is still to be written.

Three eras of genealogy

1550 to date

Parish records – relationship building – detail

1200 to 1550

Names first appear – uniqueness helps – build a story – can’t be sure – but probability

Before 1200

If you can link back to place, the story of the place is the likely story of deep ancestry

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