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By Roz, on December 13th, 2006% As a History graduate (only a Desmond though: I have no pretensions to rival Starkey) I was taught to differentiate between types or classes of evidence and quality thereof. When dealing with conflicting stories or facts it is helpful to understand the order of reliance or amount of trust you can or should place upon each item.
Primary evidence is, to me, irrefutable proof of an event, its nature, and hopefully timing. Although modern digital cameras and wizardry with graphics can produce “fake” reality by messing with pixels, in general it can be replied upon that “the camera never lies”. . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #2: A Census is not Primary evidence.
By Roz, on November 15th, 2006% I’ve been trying to determine if Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson had any siblings aside from the Jessie Henderson we already knew about.
Daisy’s father was John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, and her mother was…ok, we still haven’t determined that for sure, but anyway, the point of this post is about the specificity (lovely word) of searches on internet search engines, for example Google.
When looking for a person, say, John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, you may be tempted to search for “John Crosbie Aitken Henderson” (note the speechmarks). In this case, the only site returned would be this one. If on the . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #1: Internet search parameters
By Roz, on November 4th, 2006% Although John and I have successfully traced many branches of my family tree to the 1700s we are still at a loss to confirm many of the most basic details about the lives of two of my Great Grandmothers. The first is my Paternal Grandfather’s mother, one Ada Kathleen Watters. The other is my Paternal Grandmother’s mother, the elusive Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson.
If it weren’t for the fact that, in both cases, I have their marriage certificates to prove it, I would doubt their very existence.
Firstly, we have Ada Kathleen Watters. She was referred to as “Kathleen” by . . . → Read More: What is it about my Great Grandmothers?
By Roz, on October 29th, 2006% In Friday’s post we received the marriage certificate for Colin Inglis and Daisy Henderson (my father’s mother’s parents).
As we had already thought, they were married in Croydon in 1907 – but the certificate has given us confirmation of Daisy’s full name (we still can’t find her birth registry entry) and has also given us the names of both Colin and Daisy’s fathers.
Determined to find Daisy, my first task today has been to continue the search for her birth details.
The marriage certificate shows Daisy’s father’s name as John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, merchant. I therefore began . . . → Read More: Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)
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