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Hobbit Problems
Dec. 9th, 2012 06:15 pmSo, for those of you who have used Ancestry.com... especially if you've found yourself in the enviable yet sticky situation of entering hard-copy family research into your tree... what the heck do you do when you reach the point where ancestors stop having surnames and start being "of Somewhere?"
Also, I either need to stop transcribing RIGHT now and upgrade my membership before I continue inputting Granny's research, or roll with the weirdness and figure out how to enter an 11th-century saint into my lineage... O_o
The worst part is that it only gets weirder. Her research into American ancestors (which go pre-colonial on several branches) is impeccable - she beat Ancestry.com at their own game decades before they were even IN the game - so there's definitely enough evidence to conclude yeah, I probably can claim extremely distant matrilineal descent from medieval Scottish royalty, but... well, I haven't read that far ahead, but apparently after a while pharaohs, Greek deities, and other largely mythological figures start making appearances. Also, it's a lineage to Adam, rather than a "keep researching until we run out of records," which I suspect will cause problems soon...
Also, I either need to stop transcribing RIGHT now and upgrade my membership before I continue inputting Granny's research, or roll with the weirdness and figure out how to enter an 11th-century saint into my lineage... O_o
The worst part is that it only gets weirder. Her research into American ancestors (which go pre-colonial on several branches) is impeccable - she beat Ancestry.com at their own game decades before they were even IN the game - so there's definitely enough evidence to conclude yeah, I probably can claim extremely distant matrilineal descent from medieval Scottish royalty, but... well, I haven't read that far ahead, but apparently after a while pharaohs, Greek deities, and other largely mythological figures start making appearances. Also, it's a lineage to Adam, rather than a "keep researching until we run out of records," which I suspect will cause problems soon...
