Perhaps the most aggravating experience for an active genealogist is to come upon records that are just plain wrong. It may take a fair amount of work to straighten these things out, but it is very satisfying to do so. In the process of doing some research on my Todd line, I came across a …
Every now and then, I get tired of seeing the same old wrong data being passed around the net, so I thought I would take a moment and post about one or two that I see far too often, from the Grubb family. Since this is a direct line for me, I’ve spent a fair …
Finding mistakes in ‘published’ genealogies can be fun, especially if the resulting change results in a discovery of a new line. Such was my fortune recently while browsing through FamilySearch.org’s huge database of English parish records. I had been looking to better document some of my lines known to have come from England, including that …