On 6/14/2016 2:20 AM, Andrew Lancaster via wrote: > Isn't what is being proposed somewhat similar to, or compatible with, > the Victoria County Histories? I believe that in a sense this is also an > active but slow project? Although this is better than most sources on this topic, it is still an example of too few people trying to do too much. I haven't examined that many VCH accounts in great detail, but those that I have checked carefully suggest caution. The one that I have checked most carefully is the account of the descent of the manor and advowson of Doverdale in Worcestershire, because of my descent from the Braces of Droitwich, who held the advowson and a moiety of the manor. The accounts given for the descent of the manor, the descent of the advowson, and the descent of the related manor of Sodington are not even consistent with each other, and show a carelessness with chronology that would not have been present with more detailed research. (I still haven't figured out how it all fits together, just that the account in VCH cannot be correct as it stands.) Despite the reasonably good overall quality of the VCH histories, they still strike me as having too few resources spread too thin. Stewart Baldwin