Lesley Robertson wrote: > "singhals" <[email protected]> schreef: > > >I need brainstorming help ... > > > >I have one clue, and one only, to an ancestor's place of origin in > >Europe: he claimed he was naming his successive plantations for his > >home town. > > Where, in Europe? It's important as different wars (civil, national > and international) have not done a lot for record survival - your > first question has to be about which registers have survived. It Check. For the parishes in question there APPEARS to be a unbroken run of record books and entries in all cited parishes. > can be patchy - single books can go missing, or whole series. For > example, in one scottish town I search, the baptismal registers go > back to the early 1700s, the oldest marriage register is missing and > those records don't start until the 1840s. > > > Someone help me out -- If he didn't come from where he said he came > > from, and where everyone who met him said he was from, where's the > > first place I should look next? > > Depends on the country - the local genealogical or history offices > might be a good place. Actually, it wasn't. (g) But saying why will give details and get us further into the weeds. :( Cheryl singhals <[email protected]>