Alright, Will, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. :)
On Jul 3, 11:18=A0pm, wjhonson <wjhon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> No that isn't my point at all.
> My point is to be exact and precise when you can, and loose when you
> need.
>
> You don't need to be loose here. =A0There are things which we do in fact
> know about these people. =A0It's not based upon what I wish some 16th
> century priest or scribe had done, but rather, they did do it. =A0You're
> just three generations away from the source, and you need to dig down
> *to* the source to see exactly what it does or doesn't state.
>
> You're asking how to go back further, and how to verify a line.
> This is how to do that.
> This is what we all do here, all day.
> It is the nature of medieval genealogy, that you have to source each
> event, cite it, quote it, recheck it, check it again, compare the
> sources, discuss the authors, the time period, the customs....
>
> That's simply the way you must do it, in this time period
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