FAQ
Q: I have a Kingshott in my family. Will you be able to link them in to the wider Kingshott family tree?
A: The Kingshott family is very widespread, and my research is certainly not infallible. However, I am almost certain to be able to link your particular Kingshotts' into the family. Rarely, there may be occasions when I cannot do so. (See Brickwalls) I have several different branches of the family, who I KNOW are linked, but I just cannot prove it. I cannot simply guess at where they fit in, and if I have not proven a link I will not show it. The Australian descendants of John Kingshott fall into this category and I work tirelessly to try to find evidence to link them in. However, there is a 98 % chance that I will be able to link your Kingshott in without any problem at all.
A: It is certainly true that I could include a lot of information on sources and documents that I have viewed to enable me to compile the information that I have placed on this site. You need to remember that this site is NOT my full research but a summary of it presented, I hope, in a way that others would find interesting, or at the very least readable. If I included all of my notes on every individual the flow of any report or written piece would be lost. It is very doubtful that you would be able to decipher what I was writing in those notes anyway. If you want more information on a particular person, or persons, please just contact me and I will forward it to you on a one-to-one basis.
A: Probably, yes! I know this is likely to be very boring for most people and my immediate family are certainly sick to death of genealogy. However, I have enough contact with fellow genealogists, and curious Kingshotts' from around the world, to think that this site may prove interesting to them. The bottom line is that I enjoy the patient detective work needed to fit together all the pieces of the great genealogical jig-saw that is my extended family. It is never going to set the world on fire, but what can I say? It keeps me off the streets!
Please feel free to pass on any of these e-mail addresses to any individual involved in researching the Kingshott family, or anyone linked to that family.
A: YES! I research all Kingshotts' of whatever surname derivation. I go back as far as I can, then research their siblings. I then research ALL DESCENDANTS of ANY Kingshott, of whatever surname! You can see, therefore, that my research is very wide-ranging. This is why I am interested in hearing from you even if you only have one Kingshott in your tree.
My current project is an attempt to link in all of the current living Kingshott family members, with the ancestral families. I know more about the family 200 years ago, than I do now, and it would be nice to link everyone in.
In addition to family lines associated with the Kingshott family, I do the same thing with my maternal lines. I go back as far as I can on direct lines, then look at siblings of everyone, and descendants.
Q: What Family History software do you use?
A: I use Family Tree Maker 2012 software which allows me to keep all of the information that I gather in one place. I find it an excellent program, and have used Family Tree Maker for over ten years. The newer versions, from 2008 onwards, took some getting used to as they were so different from previous versions but I persevered and would not now be without this software. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I would also add that they are not paying me to say this. Chance would be a fine thing!