I sympathize.

My journey through Irish family history research has been going for nigh on 20 years, & there are so many dead ends .

I did find that tweaking various threads and tracking down family members across the world has revealed bits and bobs of info I didn't have (a family bible with a list of BMD in New Zealand; ancient photos & letters in NZ, OZ, Canada; and a great uncle's WWI medals in Canada, as well as oral history from the cousin we found in Canada), and filled in some gaps.

The more I search, the more pieces of the puzzle I find, it's the fitting the pieces together that is extraordinarily difficult! And a cousin who is as enthusiastic as I am, but who makes unsubstantiated leaps and bounds rather than doing methodical research doesn't help!!

The LDS family search programme was helpful to start with, but I quickly found too many errors/wrongly linked families to continue to use it.

Thank you so much.

But it isn't in latin and the plural of the english word is censuses.

Indeed it is. Just messing about with SB in the spirit of tracing word ancestry.

Generous and kind offer, BEVS

Editha: the Latin "stuff" is a fairly long running, ongoing joke... .

Oh.