Saturday, October 26, 2024

There is nothing like reliving your work as you produce charts

I made a consistent error right through the descendants of Thomas 9, Robert 8, Augustine 7, Robert 6, John 5, Robert 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1 to the end. I am always consistent unfortunately. There is a John 7 in this line of succession with the children of Thomas 9 that should be Augustine 7 right through. I will I think republish the book with that correction. I was probably a little bit eye strained by then and simply did not notice it. Apologies to one and all. I did set my timeline and tried to keep to it and that was a mistake so will not repeat that with this book. There is plenty of time and my other books will just wait. I will do that right away and then alter the *.pdf that is up on the blog eventually. Given that the Thomas line is very large I should never have missed that but I am 79 now and mistakes get made. The nice thing about electronic is that you can correct them (using search and replace (although I did check each one before replacing - replaced 100)) especially if you notice them.  I actually have it right on page 118 where Thomas first occurs but I did Thomas differently as I was using someone else's work (the error is all mine though) also right on page 188 where Thomas is mentioned as an adult; the first reference page 118 he is as a child of Robert and Grace (Kent) Siderfin and then on page 188 he is an adult married first to Sibble and later Dorothy. 

I did have this sort of nagging notion that I should delay the publication until I did the Charting book as it is a good check back and forth throughout the book. But I didn't do it. I had thought I would have comments on the changes that I made to James Sanders' flow of people in his Pedigree Chart but so far  no comments. Several of my siblings have strong matches with the Farmer family descendant of Thomas as well as very strong matches with the descendants of Charlotte Rew Griffith but my ancestor Elizabeth Rew Pincombe was her twin so not surprising. One would expect fifth cousin but their matches were more in the area of third cousin. The Farmer matches are fifth cousin (strong actually a couple of them more like fourth). A number of Siderfin descendants have tested on all of the different companies. 

So continuing with my checking the charting book although at a conference today.

 



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