Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-09-06 Thread Paula Ryburn
...@tiscali.co.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, August 15, 2012 4:31:53 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Brian, I have resolved similar issues by finding the descendants of All 3 brothers. You may find a namesake of your 6x GGfather with the other families thus

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-09-06 Thread Paula Ryburn
Charani, You make me chuckle. Rest assured you are not the only person who uses Legacy in this fashion. ;) --Paula in Texas snip (Smelling salts at the ready for anyone getting an attack of the vapours at the way I use Legacy G) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-15 Thread Alan Pereira
August 2012 02:23 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship I find this thread very interesting and informative, thanks to Kb and Ian for their comments I am in a similar situation of my 6x Great Grandfather being the probable son of 1 of 3 brothers, I

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-15 Thread Ron Ferguson
options, and such a relationship can never be set in stone. Ron Ferguson, http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Alan Pereira Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:31 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Brian, I have resolved similar issues by finding

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Alan Pereira
@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship 3rd time lucky!! Alan, I can see where you are coming from, but I have not found the need to do extensive work on this, with respect to pretty well all my family, who are readily identifiable from the sources available. There is one exception

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Ron Ferguson
be an error. After all it cannot be wrong because everybody has the same details. Huh! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Alan Pereira Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:35 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Thanks Charani

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread brittongen
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:35:40 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Thanks Charani Ron I think I will just use the research notes when I need to clarify proof. Ron, I will adopt your probability approach when I have negative proofs as I agree entirely

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Ian GARDENER
. Ian GARDENER Australia www.gardener.org.au From: britton...@comcast.net [mailto:britton...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 4:37 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Alan, I also just document reasoning in research notes

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Jan Roberts
@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Alan, Your last sentence is one one that everyone should really note, and illustrates one of the dangers of taking trees from user sites on the web. In many cases it will be found that they can be traced back to a single tree from which one

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Woolvett
] Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 8:55 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Hi kb, Thanks for the tip on Bayesian probability. I must confess that the math is way beyond me these days (maybe alwaysJ) but the underlying broad principle is definitely

[LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-13 Thread Alan Pereira
I am starting a research task in the todo list in providing proof(s) of relationship, which can be through a multitude of sources, the most difficult being the negative proof. My initial throughts were to create a document as a backup source detailing these proofs. Then again, why not just use

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-13 Thread Charani
Alan Pereira wrote: I am starting a research task in the todo list in providing proof(s) of relationship, which can be through a multitude of sources, the most difficult being the negative proof. My initial throughts were to create a document as a backup source detailing these proofs. Then

Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-13 Thread Ron Ferguson
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship Alan, I sent this earlier, before Charani replied, actually I sent it from an email address not registered at Legacy so it bounced! Anyhow, I decided to send it as my reply is not quite the same. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk