Agree, Maureen. I keep a private tree, where I save possible connections. If and when I find enough information to satisfy my very picky requirements, it is easy, then, to pull those people into my main family tree. Some of the adverts make it seem so quick and easy, but that is just not how it really happens. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maureen Chalmers Sent: Wednesday, 17 July, 2013 6:46 PM To: ray15 Cc: [email protected]; Dennis Wright Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] James Wright Good advice Ray. Patience is definitely a virtue in family history research. I have been researching my family for 26 years with many years of little or no progress, but every so often you get a great lead and uncover new information. I can see on research sites that people are not checking detail and adding people to family trees with little or no supporting factual sources. Keep good notes and potential family member details and check back regularly to see if these still fit. But don't add to your tree until you have couple of sources confirming family relationship. Best wishes Maureen Sent from my iPad On 17 Jul 2013, at 22:30, "ray15" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dennis. > I guess that we all have different standards of proof which we find acceptable. > > For me, with just the name connection and the nearby geographical closeness, I would certainly NOT make any statement of certainty about such a family connection. > > However, I would use it as the starting-point of a working hypothesis that they MIGHT be such relations. > Then from that starting point I would follow every clue that I could to TRY to find further information to help prove or disprove that hypothesis. > > In my own Ulster family lines, I have not proceeded very far backwards in time, because I will NOT make such assumptions, but instead I just wait -- frequently for many years -- until I can find other information which might assist. > > For example, with my County Tyrone and County Donegal MOORHEAD families, for decades I had a lot of people here in Oz with that surname as only hypothetical relations; but it was only last year when a previously unknown researcher in Canada published transcriptions of MOORHEAD family letters which were in his family's possession, that all of the pieces fell in place, and finally PROVED my hypothesis. > > But I still have a further hypothesis to be proved -- and perhaps I never will do so -- that my James MOORHEAD who married Margaret MOORHEAD of Raphoe in Donegal, married a kinswoman. > > Taking this back to your family, my suggestion would be that by following up ALL THREE BROTHERS, you might amass enough OTHER information to help prove or disprove your working hypothesis that that those who married at Arboe were their parents. For example perhaps marriage and death certificates for each brother might provide other evidence; along with obituaries in local newspapers if they emigrated outside Ireland (where mostly it seems that only 'notables' had their BDM information recorded in local newspapers); and of course to see how EACH of their families might have fitted within the Irish naming patterns. > > Hopefully others will chip in with further ideas for you in trying to obtain those other proofs or disproofs. > > Good luck. > Ray in Oz > > > > On 18/07/2013, at 12:41 AM, "Dennis Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been trying to Identify my Great-Grandfather James Wright's parents. > Recently, I looked up his (and his two brothers) birth announcements, > that show there father was also named James Wright and they were born in Brigh. > I then "clicked" onto the GS Film Number and searched for any Wright > in the file. There was one James Wright associated with this file. > It was a Marriage dated 31 Dec 1831 in nearby Arboe. Is it safe to > say this is My Great-Great Grandparents? > > Dennis > ------------- > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------- Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message