What do you do?
- Flag it on your to-do list?
Keep researching?
Stop!?
But how do I record these potential links? If you like, I think of them as a "pool of parents".
Any ideas?
Graham
Yes, sometimes you can be fairly sure of who the grandparents are, without being sure of the intermediate generation. For example you might know your ancestor was called John Smith and you know his approximate date of birth, but there were two John Smiths of similar age in the same village. You might be able to establish, from baptism records, that they were cousins and so had the same 'Smith' grandparents. If your John Smith was married before statutory registration started (1837 in England and Wales) the parish record of his marriage won't tell you his father's name so you don't know which of the cousins he is. (Note that witnesses names might be useful, though). But you can reasonably assume you have the right grandparents.gsward wrote: Sometimes I find that I can actually look over the brick wall. What I mean is, that there are a number of contenders for parents and they are probably aunts and uncles if not the parent. The next step might identify possible grandparents and maybe I can continue backwards from there.