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Where's The Evidence?, by Roy Bradford, published June 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 6, article, pp.250-252) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508977] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:I've been researching my family history, on and off, for a number of years now and like to think I'm reasonably experienced in finding the necessary information to construct a tree. However I'm ashamed to admit that I believed to be true some information published on other people's trees, who were researching the same name, even when I couldn't find the evidence to support it.
The family name Ito researching is BRADFORD, and I got back as far as 1612 with the marriage at Clayton of Richard BRADFORD and Elizabeth HOARE. Then there was a problem as I couldn't find Richard's baptism or death, so after some time, in desperation, I turned to other people's BRADFORD family trees for a solution. I had a variety of answers to choose from, ranging from Pyecombe, Preston and Clayton for his baptism to Clayton and Pyecombe for his burial. Nevertheless, all agreed that he was the child of Richard BRADFORD and Elizabeth GOLDSTON of Preston and was born circa 1588.
This was a very positive answer and a very reasonable supposition, particularly as Clayton and Preston are in close proximity to each other and contain a number of BRADFORD entries in their parish registers. I did later ask some of the people with BRADFORD trees to tell me where the evidence for Richard's baptism/burial could be found but didn't get a straightforward answer, apart from one person, who told so e that they had copied it from someone else's tree, just as I had.
The answers that I got, or lack of them, bothered me, so recently I made a determined effort to find the baptism of Richard.
The family name Ito researching is BRADFORD, and I got back as far as 1612 with the marriage at Clayton of Richard BRADFORD and Elizabeth HOARE. Then there was a problem as I couldn't find Richard's baptism or death, so after some time, in desperation, I turned to other people's BRADFORD family trees for a solution. I had a variety of answers to choose from, ranging from Pyecombe, Preston and Clayton for his baptism to Clayton and Pyecombe for his burial. Nevertheless, all agreed that he was the child of Richard BRADFORD and Elizabeth GOLDSTON of Preston and was born circa 1588.
This was a very positive answer and a very reasonable supposition, particularly as Clayton and Preston are in close proximity to each other and contain a number of BRADFORD entries in their parish registers. I did later ask some of the people with BRADFORD trees to tell me where the evidence for Richard's baptism/burial could be found but didn't get a straightforward answer, apart from one person, who told so e that they had copied it from someone else's tree, just as I had.
The answers that I got, or lack of them, bothered me, so recently I made a determined effort to find the baptism of Richard.