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I don't do any research any more, mainly because I'm now too old to go chasing around the country looking for 'straws'. And the expense, at least in my case, was 'awsome', to say the least. So just what's this about?
I can't say how many books I had to look in to find information on some particular Hollingsworth-Tillinghast-
Powell-Earle and on and on and I can say that a few were rifft with mis-information. But just because a book shows errors is no reason to dismiss it out of hand. Usually there are a few facts you can use. You just have to verify what you use. But I really do salute the many authors who endeavoured to pass down their own research no matter how inaccurate it might have been. Usually, saying a book has many errors is tantament to convincing you not to look at the book but this is wrong. Even the BIBLE is loaded with errors, I don't care what the preachers spout.
So what now? I have been told by a few that one book that I say ought to be looked at is entitled: 'THE BLOODLINE OF THE HOLY GRAIL'. I don't say look at it for its accracy;[it contains the author's view about Jesus's marriage to Mary Magdalin' which any devout Christian would be appaulled at}, but if you find your genealogy connects to anyone in the Bible you will find a more accurate gene line from Adam to Joseph and Jesus as the Charts refered to in Mathew and Luke are diffinitely amiss. The authur supplies some ancestors the Bible missed and if you have a Concordance you can check it out. Check any Book out, no matter what you hear. I've had an ancestor die in one state only to have him turn up in another.[Matter of fact; 2 of them]. Even Adjer Stewart's book is lousy with inaccuracy when he got to my line of Hollingsworths. And don't be discouraged. The info you want is out there, I assure you. And you can learn a lot about History too. Happy hunting.
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