Re: Bickerstaffe Quakers -- Lookup for Ashton
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Re: Bickerstaffe Quakers -- Lookup for Ashton
Sharon Davis 3/22/09
You're very wise to NOT accept things just told you, as true.....that's just not good enough for a real researcher.My genealogical guru once gave me the best advice I've ever gotten, genealogically speaking, and I pass it along to the gen. classes I occasionally teach - "Believe NOTHING you don't have the proof for, in your OWN HAND".That's advice all researchers should 'live by'!I think every researcher has at least one bunch of information floating around the web, on a family member, and no matter HOW many folks you ask about documentation, none has any.....it's like data takes on a life of it's own on the internet and it is impossible to track down anyone who has one bit of documentation.
In my own family, I was given a list of names, dates, events that had belonged to a family member who was planning to join the DAR....it was frustrating for me to see WHAT but have no idea of WHERE....and, while the majority of her data I was able to prove correct, there WERE several provable errors, so I couldn't simply accept ANYTHING she noted...where there were 2 errors, couldn't there be 3?So, the stuff on Isaac might not have been correct while much other of her data was.....
Good luck with your Joseph.