Have you researched Lancashires from before about 1750?
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Have you researched Lancashires from before about 1750?
 andreweninge
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Posted: 25 May 2008 12:59PM GMT |
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Hello Lancashire Researchers!
I am looking for any genealogists who've researched Lancasters or Lancashires (the two surnames were once equivalent) successfully going back to times before about 1750.
What I would like to call for are written descriptions of this work, with some mention of the evidence, the conclusions, the possibilities, and what further research might be undertaken. These can be short or long.
My aim is to work with others to add to the collection of such stories which I have myself been building up on my Lancaster webpage: http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancaster%20Index.html
I'd be helping people publish on to the internet, for the greater good of all Lancaster genealogy.
Why do I think that this sort of work is so critical?
Because before 1750 or so is where most of us get stuck even when we do know all the available resources fairly well.
Consider what this idea is NOT...
1. Forums like this one, are excellent places for swapping ideas about how to trace a family in the 1800s for example, and there are many resources on the internet. So genealogists from many families are working away well on this all the time. If you are stuck in the late 1700s or after that time, post a clear question on this message board!
...But eventually most of us, including me personally, get stuck in the 1700s, because this is a time when English speaking populations were already growing and moving very fast, but good records had NOT yet become reliable all around the English speaking world.
We want to be able to jump back to the earlier times when populations were small and stayed in the same parishes for a long time, but it is very difficult.
...and it is precisely at that point that we begin to search around to see what earlier families we MIGHT be related to, and who has written about them.
2. While I have nothing against some of the family trees posted around the internet, many of them are copied from each other for the early parts of their trees, and the guesses in them are often no longer known to be guesses. Indeed, even many pre-internet publications suffer from the same problem.
(All family tree work needs guessing. I am not against guessing when people say that they are guessing, or that their source was guessing.)
The hypothetical genealogist I described above, who has worked hard to get back to the 1700s and now looks around the internet for good material to work with, unfortunately spends a lot of time on false leads because of this.
What I am looking for are people who can explain the sources of proof for the family trees of Lancasters this far back.
Is there anybody out there interested in participating in this effort?
My normal e-mail address is andrew.lancaster@skynet.be
Best Regards
Andrew Lancaster
I am looking for any genealogists who've researched Lancasters or Lancashires (the two surnames were once equivalent) successfully going back to times before about 1750.
What I would like to call for are written descriptions of this work, with some mention of the evidence, the conclusions, the possibilities, and what further research might be undertaken. These can be short or long.
My aim is to work with others to add to the collection of such stories which I have myself been building up on my Lancaster webpage: http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancaster%20Index.html
I'd be helping people publish on to the internet, for the greater good of all Lancaster genealogy.
Why do I think that this sort of work is so critical?
Because before 1750 or so is where most of us get stuck even when we do know all the available resources fairly well.
Consider what this idea is NOT...
1. Forums like this one, are excellent places for swapping ideas about how to trace a family in the 1800s for example, and there are many resources on the internet. So genealogists from many families are working away well on this all the time. If you are stuck in the late 1700s or after that time, post a clear question on this message board!
...But eventually most of us, including me personally, get stuck in the 1700s, because this is a time when English speaking populations were already growing and moving very fast, but good records had NOT yet become reliable all around the English speaking world.
We want to be able to jump back to the earlier times when populations were small and stayed in the same parishes for a long time, but it is very difficult.
...and it is precisely at that point that we begin to search around to see what earlier families we MIGHT be related to, and who has written about them.
2. While I have nothing against some of the family trees posted around the internet, many of them are copied from each other for the early parts of their trees, and the guesses in them are often no longer known to be guesses. Indeed, even many pre-internet publications suffer from the same problem.
(All family tree work needs guessing. I am not against guessing when people say that they are guessing, or that their source was guessing.)
The hypothetical genealogist I described above, who has worked hard to get back to the 1700s and now looks around the internet for good material to work with, unfortunately spends a lot of time on false leads because of this.
What I am looking for are people who can explain the sources of proof for the family trees of Lancasters this far back.
Is there anybody out there interested in participating in this effort?
My normal e-mail address is andrew.lancaster@skynet.be
Best Regards
Andrew Lancaster