Well... I'm not Scottish at all, after all...

**Kilted Rogue** · 7th August 11, 05:00 AM

Originally Posted by Inchessi

To help complicate matters, The Mormons keep detail ancestry documents. While there is no indication that any of my heritage was Mormon, my grandmother sought information in Salt Lake. I asked her about the religion, and none of the names she found were Mormon. They just keep notes, and were apparently very helpful.

I have done the bulk of my research at the mormon church. I am not an expert in there religion, but they take family history very serious. I need to take a trip to upstate NY, to get my facts in straight on my family

**gilmore** · 16th August 11, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Joshua

This thread... BACK FROM THE DEAD!

My mom unearthed a whole trove of information. I've now unearthed a definite link to the Bruce surname... but I've hit all new walls.

So if anyone could assist with info on a Mr. Benjamin P. Bruce, born approx 1852 in South Carolina, married to a Molly (or Polly) in or around 1870, I would be quite appreciative. I'm very apprehensive about following other people's family trees at this point, it's made too much additional legwork in the way of fixing other folk's screwups on Ancestry.com...

Yes, relying on the pedigrees at ancestry.com and the LDS information is often a waste of time. No quality control, GIGO. I am so glad that my family researched and documented its more recent ancestry before the internet was invented.