Connectivity issues (General)

by peteressex , Saturday, March 16, 2013, 08:44 (4272 days ago) @ slowhands

Jefff and Slowhands, neither of you surprises me. Here in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty we are sometimes fortunate to obtain the services of a reliable pigeon.

It comes as a surprise to many not only that we have such nice scenery but also that Surrey is the most heavily wooded county in England in terms of percentage of area despite the population. This means lots and lots of trees to fall on oversubscribed power lines. Quite apart from frequent power outages, I subscribe to genesreunited, and when I try (with the owner's consent) to get onto a tree with more than a few hundred names, I wait long enough not only to make a cup of tea but also to bake the buns to go with it. I therefore sympathise with the frail of Westbury and foam with jealousy at the news of Hillingdon's facilities :-)

I wonder also, by the way, to what extent you find Ancestry reliable. I've come across quite a few instances where Mormon-owned data is questionable. From what meagre grasp I have of Latter Day Saints' theology, it seems they are big on genealogy because they interpret one verse of the Bible to mean they have a duty to discover and baptise people by proxy long after their death. This means once they've got a name they won't let it go. As a result, if their information is challenged, they may put a footnote on IGI or whatever, saying it "may" be unreliable, but they won't delete it. This seems to me to be a pity, as Mormon data is often the only on-line source for pre-1837 information if you can't get at a parish register. I've had a good talking-to by a fellow researcher in the Cotswolds for adopting unreliable info in such a way as to allege bigamy!