@Verbeia I find the FamilySearch Family Tree unpleasant to use on technical grounds (never mind all the philosophical ones) so I haven't used it. If you want to look at some of the historical development of FSFT, I recommend the blog 'The Ancestry Insider' ancestryinsider.org My primary objection is that there are not any good provisions built into the system for evidence management.

Ben Sayer produced an online elegant tool for evidence management called Lineascope -- go to lineascope.com to see it in action -- but most developers of software who are mind-locked into the GEDCOM model don't seem to understand why this kind of tool is necessary.

ACProctor has also written about the problems with collarboration at his blog: parallax-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2013/09/…

Imagine a collaborative project in which we could all present our 'proof' arguments and sign our own work, and if people disagreed, the two hypothesis co co-exist and users could follow different paths.

@Verbeia I should have said, I also (like bgwiehle) recommend reading the Ancestry Insider.

Re: my question today about Prospect House: in 1856Eliza Bastard's daughter Eliza (born 1830 ), the daughter of Richard Bastard, married William Bastard of Coleton, Brixham, the son of William Bastard. Just shoot me now.

@JanMurphy who knew this was even a surname?

@Verbeia It goes back to the Domesday book (1086) -- at least seven centuries in Devon.

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