For Brian Foley...

[Barreldriver]

I think I'll stop for a while, I'm getting sore lol how ironic, just sitting and I feel like I ran a marathon. lol!

[Æmeric]

Some of my ancestors lived in very close proximity to raþbeorn's. Like within 5-10 miles. Though I don't recognize any of the names.

[Barreldriver]

Some of my ancestors lived in very close proximity to raþbeorn's. Like within 5-10 miles. Though I don't recognize any of the names.

Cool. Which ones to be exact?

[Gooding]

Very well done and thought out, rathbeorn..thank you so much for sharing!

[Barreldriver]

Very well done and thought out, rathbeorn..thank you so much for sharing!

There's more but it will take days to type them from the Gedcoms. Don't know if it's worth completing the whole spiel, it would take up so much space here and I don't know if I have the patience to type it all lol.

[Psychonaut]

Although I don't want to burst anyone's bubble and I certainly wouldn't want to give any credence to certain beliefs of one Brian Foley, do you use online sources for genealogy mostly, like Ancestry.com and rootsweb?

Thing is that although these are great guides to further research into family genealogy, they definitely need just that, more research. The waters get especially treacherous beyond 1800. Some people take a lot of "leaps of faith" in connecting the dots in the family tree.

Like any kind of history, your greatest reliance for calling anything accurate should be on primary documents. And for the most part you will not find those on the internet. It's sad but true. Doing real honest research will take a very long time.

This is definitely true. Ancestry is a wonderful starting point, but I can hardly count how many times I've found information on there that is horrendously wrong. There is never anything that takes the stead of official documents. I'm also very wary of information my family gives me. I've gotten loads of wrong "facts" from them too.

[Barreldriver]

This is definitely true. Ancestry is a wonderful starting point, but I can hardly count how many times I've found information on there that is horrendously wrong. There is never anything that takes the stead of official documents. I'm also very wary of information my family gives me. I've gotten loads of wrong "facts" from them too.

Yeah, I didn't like Ancestry.com they had my surname spelled wrong, they spelled it Rueder and got it confused with a German family from the same region as mine, it took a while to sort out the mess, the actual hard copy inherited documents helped Rootsweb though has been quite accurate for all my info so far, matches up with everything I've previously known. I'm impressed with Rootsweb, but not Ancestry.com

[Gooding]

Yeah, I didn't like Ancestry.com they had my surname spelled wrong, they spelled it Rueder and got it confused with a German family from the same region as mine, it took a while to sort out the mess, the actual hard copy inherited documents helped Rootsweb though has been quite accurate for all my info so far, matches up with everything I've previously known. I'm impressed with Rootsweb, but not Ancestry.com

Tell you the truth, I kind of work off the research of two other members of my family that have put in a fortune for documentation and put it up on the web.Allen Prunty had research done and is still researching the Bairds and McDonalds from my mother's paternal line and my other relative, Alex Pecot, does the Cornetts/Pecots from my mother's maternal line.My wife is working a little on ancestry.com and learning about the Doves and Goodings from my father's paternal line and the Coxens and Thornes from my father's maternal line.Rootsweb is awesome.