Advance Notice on Research
It should be clear to all that we do not take the Ancient & Mythical Section of this database all that seriously. Similarly, although we do take most of the Continental Section seriously (but draw attention to the fact that some of it should really be within the Ancient & Mythical Section) that section is not a priority for us. Our main focus is on the British Section which we are trying to make as broad as possible so as to give a good target for people to find a link to. HOWEVER, we also aspire to make the whole database as reliable as possible. We know that many site visitors are very interested in the Ancient & Mythical and Continental Sections and enjoy finding ancestors there. Accordingly, we accept the need to make those sections as reliable as we can. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. Although there are also difficulties with the early generations in the British Section, the other sections often rely on sources which disagree with each other, sometimes dramatically so. Given that they include people who, if they lived at all, lived at times for which there are few if any remaining reliable records, that is not surprising. Given our limited resources, we have sometimes just prepared a page for the Ancient & Mythical and Continental Sections as well as we could in a short time and accepted that not everyone would agree with it. To improve on this, from time to time we shall focus on particular pages within those sections and go through them in some detail, improving or inserting the notes needed to highlight discrepancies, etc., in an attempt to bring them up to the same standards we set for the British Section. We would appreciate assistance with this.
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