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pete.mason:

--- Quote from: grandarog on March 16, 2021, 10:11:01 AM ---Another rule I abide by when researching. Never Never trust someone elses Transcription always check the orriginal. It is amazing how many transcribers make typo errors or misread words. Also never believe anything from Americans Family trees on line .The number of Americans that have some of my ancestors recorded as being of US states such as Michegan,Delaware,Washinton,and Rhode Island that just happen to  have towns named Kent.

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Some of that is due to Ancestry autofilling information and it doesn't show until you revisit. Back to names, my paternal GM's maiden name was Sugar (living  in Somerset) When agriculture slumped mid C19 many of them moved to mining in Wales and started taking on an "h" becoming Shugar. I'm pretty sure that the original spelling would be pronounced Siugar in Welsh, some of them emigrated to Pennsylvania and for some reason added as "S" at the end to make it Sugars

grandarog:
Another rule I abide by when researching. Never Never trust someone elses Transcription always check the orriginal. It is amazing how many transcribers make typo errors or misread words. Also never believe anything from Americans Family trees on line .The number of Americans that have some of my ancestors recorded as being of US states such as Michegan,Delaware,Washinton,and Rhode Island that just happen to  have towns named Kent.

johnfilmer:
Rule number one regarding family history is that whatever you were told is usually wrong!


As we lived together, I spent ages chatting to my paternal Grandfather when I was in my early teens and he in his early eighties. According to what he had been told the family name of Clement had the s attached when his father, a baker, sold Clement’s bread.


Total BS. The s has come and gone, occasionally spelt Clemence on the same record as Clements, and I have got back to the 1600s.


It does rather complicate matters when struggling to read a scrawl written with a quill, but you do need a sense of humour when you realise that you have the wrong person after all. Cousins with the same name are the best.

Longpockets:
I worked with a guy whose name was Duffissey who had Irish roots. I asked him one day the origin of his name. One of his ancestors and some point was asked his surname for official records and he answered Duffy Sir but it was recorded as Duffissey.

Alastair:
Spent many years trawling parish records and the reason for the differences in spelling is, invariably, the cleric who wrote it down.
The person getting married, or whatever, may or may not have been able to write but told the cleric his/her name and the cleric wrote what he heard. So if the person had an accent this would have distorted the name written. Different clerics would spell names in different ways. It is possible that names were deliberately spelt differently to distinguish them from another family with the same name, but that's my own theory.
The difference in spelling is down to the cleric.
Alastair

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