On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:17:44 -0500, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote: >Want all Groleau in Delta County, MI? Either search for >Abe Groleau, Abby Groleau, .... >or search for all Groleaus in the whole country and narrow it down later. > >-- >Wes Groleau I try to make the best of every situation. Thus my advice would be to be happy that you are not a Sullivan or a Johnson or a Smith. Then again, I have not searched for what appears to be a French name in France. C'est la vie. I still consider Ancestry the best source. Linkpendium is an excellent source EXCEPT, many of the URLs require a subscription fee - or laboriius entry for a free week of research when you know you have to remember to unsubscribe to keep from being billed. And, after hours of research there, I have not been helped. Let me hasten to add that helping me specifically is not in the job description of the provider; it's his job to give us opportunities to find data that might help - and Linkpendium does a great job with that. Hugh

J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:17:44 -0500, Wes Groleau > <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote: > > >> Want all Groleau in Delta County, MI? Either search for >> Abe Groleau, Abby Groleau, .... >> or search for all Groleaus in the whole country and narrow it down later. >> >> -- >> Wes Groleau > > I try to make the best of every situation. Thus my advice would be to > be happy that you are not a Sullivan or a Johnson or a Smith. I had a Smith. There were just two of her name as children in the 1841 census in Honley, WRY. By the 1851 one of the families had moved. In Honley the problems start when you have to track down Boothroyds. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:34:52 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) wrote: >On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:17:44 -0500, Wes Groleau ><Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote: > > >>Want all Groleau in Delta County, MI? Either search for >>Abe Groleau, Abby Groleau, .... >>or search for all Groleaus in the whole country and narrow it down later. >> >>-- >>Wes Groleau > >I try to make the best of every situation. Thus my advice would be to >be happy that you are not a Sullivan or a Johnson or a Smith. > >Then again, I have not searched for what appears to be a French name >in France. C'est la vie. > >I still consider Ancestry the best source. Linkpendium is an excellent >source EXCEPT, many of the URLs require a subscription fee - or >laboriius entry for a free week of research when you know you have to >remember to unsubscribe to keep from being billed. And, after hours of >research there, I have not been helped. Let me hasten to add that >helping me specifically is not in the job description of the provider; >it's his job to give us opportunities to find data that might help - >and Linkpendium does a great job with that. > >Hugh Is everything in family search available on ancestry.com? I haven't tried family search in quite a while but only found one item that I had already found on ancestry. You mentioned looking for a French name in France. I have problems because I am looking for very common Irish names. Morris, O'Connor, Casey and Sullivan. Do you have any suggestions? I have counties for Morris and O'Connor but not any clue for Sullivan and Casey.

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:59:58 -0500, Brian <drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> wrote: >Is everything in family search available on ancestry.com? I haven't >tried family search in quite a while but only found one item that I >had already found on ancestry. I have not tried to compare. But in a listing of sources I find that I have used Ancestry frequently and Family Search rarely. I use both probably out of a desire for overkill. Ancestry is somewhat expensive. I find that tress are very repetitive on Ancestry and most are, to say the least, very suspicious. >You mentioned looking for a French name in France. I was replying to Mr. Groleau and presuming he was of French ancestry. It gave me a chance to use c'est la vie, vice cherchez la femme. 8-) >I have problems >because I am looking for very common Irish names. Morris, O'Connor, >Casey and Sullivan. >Do you have any suggestions? I have counties for Morris and O'Connor >but not any clue for Sullivan and Casey. I don't look at Irish counties, mostly because I am looking before 1800 when mythology and history books are about the only prime sources. Irish Pedigrees by John O'Hart is very good but has errors. Track King Milesius and the genealogy after O'Suilebhain in Ireland. It's almost impossible to help without some particulars. Sullivans were mostly in the Bantry Bay area and a LOT of "stuff" is available on them - but mostly names prior to my ability to link to current people. I had a cousin who shared a gg grand with me named Russell. She insisted she had found the grave of his father when she went to Ireland because the found the grave of a Russell Sullivan. I shudda stopped there. 8-) My DNA indicates that I am of Viking descent. I am familiar with scads of Sullivan genealogies, most of which are R1b1 vice R1a1 which I am. My research, as I have often reported, is copying every fact I can find on Sullivan in NC and VA to about 1835 and reviewing them in numerous scenarios to see if I can generate genealogies. I supplement that with a listing of all Sullivan census records that I have copied from Ancestry and Heritage Quest. In case you didn't know I have found Sullivan spelled 152 different ways so far, so don't let your research overlook the possibility of soundex searches or various spellings. When in the mood I can spend 12-15 hours a day doing research for a week or two. But I'm retired and at an age when sitting is often the most exercise I get. If your Sullivans were in VA before 1800 and in NC prior to 1835 I might be able to help you - or in AL after 1835 regardless of DNA tests. Hugh

On 02-05-2011 12:41, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: > I find that tress are very repetitive on Ancestry and most are, to say > the least, very suspicious. Indeed. In looking for info one day, I discovered that dozens of people are repeating that one of my ancestors is the daughter of a French couple, when in fact, there is ample evidence that she was a native American from the opposite side of the continent. Some of these people have copied stuff from me, apparently without noticing that I mention her Ktunaxa origins. And then copy someone else's contradictory unfounded wild guess on top of it. -- Wes Groleau ¡Qué quiero realmente hacer es comer un perrito caliente! 私が実際にしたいと思う何をホットドッグを食べることである! http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=463