Going off on a tangent - do you?

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:06 pm

emanday wrote:whisper: now WHERE'S that printout of the family who lived next to 3rd cousin twice removed Jessie?

Have you looked under the pile of ironing Mary?

(or am I the only one

)

Pinkshoes

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:33 pm

And I thought it was only me

We're all the same.

I have currently 4 lookups to do on SP and am fervently searching for another 1 to justify 30 more credits

Sad or what

Jean

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:50 pm

Hi Everyone

I think that the tangents angle works for us all - time and time again when I have faced brick walls I have looked sideways into tangents and have found info - that when cross referenced - make sense and can help chip away at the wall. The trick is to share that methodology with us all at TS.

Best Regards

Ted

Post by **emanday** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:06 pm

pinkshoes wrote:
emanday wrote:whisper: now WHERE'S that printout of the family who lived next to 3rd cousin twice removed Jessie?
Have you looked under the pile of ironing Mary? (or am I the only one )Pinkshoes

In this house, the ironing is UNDER the family tree

Have to admit, though, a couple of my tangents HAVE uncovered the solutions to a mystery.

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:06 am

Ah Tangents those lovely areas where you wonder why you are looking.

The other week I had to stop myself from looking up some long deid punters on SP, purely because they had absolutely no relation to my lot of long losts.

How I got myself to the point of nearly purchasing the image I still have no idea

The name must have cropped up somehow.

But I still cant fathom how or why I was doing the search in the first place. Maybe I need help, and not the family history type

And no it wasnt looking to help someone else either.

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:11 am

emanday wrote:Maddeningly, this particular mad tangent has turned out to be easier than ma ain folk.

I think that's why we are way down a road before we know it because the "tangents" always seem easier or in my case more interesting than the brick walls. The "tangents" seem to live in areas that have loads of info online whereas my brick wall info has drowned at sea !!!!

davran · Post by **davran** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:36 pm

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the "tangents" always seem easier or in my case more interesting than the brick walls. The "tangents" seem to live in areas that have loads of info online whereas my brick wall info has drowned at sea !!!!

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Yes, yes, yes!! I'm off on one at the moment. One of this lot married my gtgrandfather's brother. Interesting lot - her father's first wife dies, he marries again, then dies himself after producing a lovely brood. Widow remarries and all the girls go to live with other people, while mother takes the boys to live with new husband! Shall I go on...? AND the previous generation appear on the IGI (parish record data, not ancestral file) - not FAIR, is it?

But, it is fun...

Post by **emanday** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:08 pm

Yes, but...

WHY are our tangents usually so much more interesting than our direct rellies?

And WHY are they so much easier to trace?

S'not fair

but I'm still having great fun

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:13 pm

hi Mary

WHY are our tangents usually so much more interesting than our direct rellies?

Ah, but your tangents ARE someone else's direct rellies! There is a moral in there somewhere, I think... but I'm not sure I can work it out!

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **emanday** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:34 pm

Never was a truer word spoken, Lesley.

I recently found a very distant relative, Nth cousin hunners of times removed, because he'd gone off on a tangent. One of his GGGG etc... Grandparents offspring had descendants, one of whom married my Grandfather's sister

It's certainly a smaller world than we credit