Genealogy

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Burton Joyce and "TimeLine" Genealogy - Guest contribution

Researching and establishing family roots requires perseverance, patience, super human “stick ability” for the task in hand together with an acceptance of the fact that everything you discover or read may NOT be what you see at first, at a second or even the third look. Most of the time genealogy is not an exact science and even specialist computer programmes do not always clarify a situation (as the saying goes “feed in peanuts and you will get out monkeys” meaning that the quality of the information put out by the computer is determined by the quality of the information fed in.

In researching our own family name over many years , my cousin Peter (the family technocrat), developed a unique computer programme to digest the many 10.000’s of pieces of information and collate them intelligently by integrating the many variables of dates of births/baptisms, marriage dates/locations, death dates/locations, burial locations, surname spellings variable etc., etc.. Even so, there are still many loose ends which in the final analysis may well have to depend upon the deductive intuition of the human reasoning of social habits and attitudes to aid a resolution.

My understanding of my family ancestry has been assisted immensely by using the “Timeline”. I cannot overstress its use as an aid for a clearer understanding of the complexity with family relationships. .

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