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To: EDINVA
There are “genealogists” who can show any paying client to be descended from whomever they want. If I wanted to be a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, voila, *some* genealogist would draw that line. This particular genealogist’s bona fides bear a look.


My father paid several Scottish (and state approved) genealogists in the 70’s to do family research from the original records.

After the internet (and the LDS church) put copies of the original documents on-line you can see a lot of “wishful thinking” in the reports he received.

48 posted on 05/01/2012 9:46:02 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: az_gila

If I were serious about genealogy I wouldn’t count on anything online or at LDS. Just in the USA mid-Atlantic states alone, some lines are hard to establish as the Union forces had no problem burning down courthouses that contained vital records. But we’re supposed to believe that we can trace back 500 years to some royalty? I prefer to say I come from a long line of Irish peasants.


51 posted on 05/01/2012 11:16:39 AM PDT by EDINVA
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