Quote Originally Posted by creagdhubh View Post
Fantastic link, Colin!

Cheers,
!
Thank you, Colin. Best of luck, Nathan.

It seems that many times records were simply not kept among country folk. How many generations of people were born, lived, and died without much of a trace in the written record? A fire at the local parish could have destroyed centuries of local records. Spelling changes can be a real bother, and some people flat-out changed their names upon coming to the New World...often because they didn't want to be found by people in the Old World.