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Monday, September 25, 2017

Wrong head

One of the great themes of technology is that computers are easy, it's printers and networks that cause the problems. So it is that the Gorse Fox has finished the day puzzling over blank pages squirting out of the printer. He has tried cleaning the nozzles on the print heads, the printer completed the task and declared them to be fine. The Gorse Fox thought he would try a deep clean cycle. He switched off the printer then powered it back on. An error message popped up to say the wrong print head was installed. Que? It's been printing just fine for the last few days, but has now decided it's unhappy. The Gorse Fox has decided to leave it until tomorrow.

In the day's research he found one researcher had waded in on a family that Gorse Fox was seeking. Gorse Fox had identified 4 children, the first being born in 1860, the last in 1876. The other researcher had identified two further children - Reuben who was seemingly born 18 years before the first on Gorse Fox's list and a sister born way after the last one Gorse Fox had found. In fact, there was a span of 50 child-bearing years if you believe this other source. It took the Gorse Fox about 2 seconds to realise this was wrong (indeed, stupid) and about 30 seconds to identify the actual parents of these two outliers. They weren't part of the family... and it, again, demonstrates why you should NEVER assume that the public trees on Ancestry are valid - unless they are supported with proper citations.

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