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