Dear Peter, I thought Medieval Lands was correct so I thought I would only have to mention the primary sources now I realize I should have mentioned the website. About Medieval Lands I use it because it is one of the few internet genealogy websites with good citations to primary and secondary sources. About the discussions yes I had already seen them and I do know that a website of the dimension of Medieval Lands is too much work for an individual like Charles Cawley who is not an expert on the field.

On 13-Sep-17 7:05 PM, Paulo Canedo wrote: > Dear Peter, I thought Medieval Lands was correct so I thought I would only have to mention the primary sources now I realize I should have mentioned the website. About Medieval Lands I use it because it is one of the few internet genealogy websites with good citations to primary and secondary sources. About the discussions yes I had already seen them and I do know that a website of the dimension of Medieval Lands is too much work for an individual like Charles Cawley who is not an expert on the field. Ho hum. Medieval Lands most emphatically does NOT have "good citations to primary and secondary sources". It has citations that are unexamined, found by over-hasty and often ill-directed skimming, and very frequently misapplied. I'm afraid it is a kind of beginner's arrogance for you to say this, since the statement proves that you cannot know enough to make the assessment in the first place. The website is riddled with nonsense. It is the work of an unprepared ignoramus, devoid of skills and knowledge for this work, who fancies himself as a scholar. It is an imposture on people who don't know enough to see through it, just as it would be for someone like me to prance about on the stage at Covent Garden pretending to be a dancer for audiences who had never seen ballet done properly. Medieval genealogy is not rocket science, but it takes more than the will to be admired in order to do it usefully and present the results to the public. Even a tiny fraction of the scope of Medieval Lands is beyond the capacity of its compiler, because he simply does not have a clue how to go about what he is doing. Someone who can't read Latin and French cannot reasonably expect to make sense of lineages such as the counts of Ponthieu, or ANY other family of the same era anywhere else. Supposing that Medieval Lands can be safely relied on for any detail that has not been specifically debunked is, frankly, beyond foolish. Peter Stewart