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Subject: Re: Query: English Registers - "private" baptisms
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 07:05:29 +0000 (UTC)
References: <a5jc3e$r4o$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>
In article <a5jc3e$r4o$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>,
(Steven Gibbs) wrote:
> Plus, of course, just knowing the siblings' names may give other clues;
> surnames used as first names, for example. Gaps in the dates may
> suggest
> that your ancestors lived elsewhere for a while. You need all the help
> you
> can get, especially pre-1837.
Yes, indeed.
But this is not sibling genealogy for its own sake, is it? This is the use
of siblings (and even other relatives or associated persons) to pursue the
direct line when it gets "stuck". We have all BTDTGT (even if not the
certificate!). Research of siblings in this sort of situation needs to be
subject to the same rigour as those on the direct line.
I have a great many siblings recorded. But most of them are "gratuitous",
not hunted down. It seems to me, that if you actually go hunting for
siblings as an end in itself, this activity must come out of the
direct-line budget.
Anyway, this is off thread. It is somewhat removed from private baptisms.
Ron S
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