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Struggling for the past two years..need help?

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Re: Struggling for the past two years..need help?

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 8:47AM GMT
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Hello, Are you struggling? I hope not. I wasn't going to respond because:
1) I only began my tree in Jan 2015.
2) I have nobody with the last name of Black, yet.
3) Did I say I was a green newbie?

But I am because I had a problem with a father and son with the same given name. I relied to heavily on other people's trees, and the ancestry hints are not always pertinent to whomever you are researching. The father in my situation had no marriage license or bond for what would turn out to be the correct wife but had a large number of other historical references, but I kept finding a marriage bond for another woman. This was it turns out a case of me going to far to fast. I went from another of his son's in the direct path and never bothered to see what other children he had, which helped figure out this mystery sooner. One of those 'other' children was a son with the same name, the marriage bond belonged to him. All of a sudden dates, locations, etc all fell into place. Which by the way reminds me that when researching one ancestor if you look carefully you might just find something for another one.

I hope you are doing well in your research, maybe my post might help someone else from making my mistakes.

Regards,

Michael Cantley
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Kellie Black 10 Jun 2012 4:02PM GMT 
daciodan 10 Jun 2012 4:50PM GMT 
ednascott2 9 Mar 2015 5:44PM GMT 
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