Good idea will try it, no doubt I will come up against many a William seems to be a favourite with the Germons, as you say though it will be brute force. Thanks and regards . Veronica -------------------------------------------------- From: "mick" <bareman@tpg.com.au> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:28 PM To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [DEV] Moretnhampstead 1799-1830 > On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:09:42 -0000 > "Vernmp" <vernmp@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > >> Thank you for the Treleaven Diaries very enjoyable. You would think it >> easy to follow the line that belongs to your family tree as Morton is >> quite >> small (local to me growing up as I come from Plymouth). However no such >> luck as my interest is the GERMON family, John Harvey Germon being my >> Grandfather who moved to Plymouth and brought his family with him. All >> the >> boys became sailors in the Navy). My G.G. and GGGgrandfather were both >> called William and one I believe was a Tailor married to Mary Wotton. As >> the Germon tribe seems to be immense it I think I will have to visit the >> actual church records. Should anyone know any little nugget of knowledge >> that might help I would be grateful to follow it up. A healthy and >> Happy >> New Year to you all. Veronica Germon-Kells. >> > In my case I worked back from the known as far as I could (1770) then > using the 'Virtual Archive' of the Parish Records > http://www.moretonhampstead.org.uk/texts/official/records.ghtml I copied > the three registers into spreadsheets to get a picture of the How(e)s, > then chased what I could from IGI and any other source I could find. > > The result of this is a credible line from 1621 to 1720. this has left me > with a fifty year gap full of multiple people with the same few names and > nothing to separate them yet. > > This kind of "Brute Force" method is prone to error so you have to take > care to challenge every result > > mick > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message