by SRD » Mon May 20, 2019 7:09 am
If you publish your tree online sometimes taking a guess throws up a contact who, if nothing else, can prove your guess was wrong, but ultimately, if you want your tree to be accurate, guessing isn't really acceptable.
All you can do is to continue researching both sets of family in the hope that something will turn up to tilt the balance one way or the other, otherwise it's just one of those brickwalls we all have somewhere in our trees. For me it's my mother's paternal line that vanishes in the Channel Islands, presumably their records were amongst those destroyed during WWII.
Currently investigating the Hillmans of Sussex.