[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I wasn't meaning that Ossy Kid...I was meaning that you have to have the nous to realise the conditions on this show are not like the ones which ordinary searchers encounter.
And yes, you are right, sometimes you hit a wall because there are no further documents to follow.

I know you are good researcher(from the help you have given people on here)and I envy your skills, but I know that these have been patiently acquired over those 30 years.

Aye Margaret, like Ossy Kid I have been at this game a long long time, at first it was hard work, but then it became easier as the mind learnt new tricks, thinking straight ahead doesn't always work, you start to think sideways as well, and you have to have a large pile of salt handy. One of the great difficulties is interpreting badly written indexes, and what it should mean, but even after all these years, I still feel good when a puzzle is solved.
As for that who do you think you are, I think they do a lot of research into dozens of so-called stars, before they pick one to carry on with, and sometimes they've spent so much on the programme that they can't afford to drop it, so little fabrication, and who out there is gonna prove em wrong.
Donkeys years back, when Jack Broderick was deciphering the old parish records. I was creating indexes, we both came to the conclusion that if anyone claimed they could trace their family back to 1700 with absolute certanty, they were a damned good liar, the spelling in those days was enough to make you want to shoot yourself, and the number of John the son of John, whew let me out of here