Hi Mick I did something similar with my own family line in Merton. I found the line back but it did leave lots of loose ends. I have a Samuel Frayne left over who doesn't fit in anywhere and I also have references in other parishes to people being baptised or married in Merton and no record in Merton. All good fun! Jon -----Original Message----- From: devon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:devon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mick Sent: 03 January 2014 23:28 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