Babz, this topic was not started to score points off anyone... my reasoning for starting it was to put forward
for discussion what I considered to be a reasonable approach to people starting to research their family tree. I do admit that I read a certain child's (not that I realised he was a child at the time)
great guide and thought it wasn't very good (and yes, that is me putting it very mildly). So the way I see it is this topic should
not be merged with any other. However, the two topics started by the child definitely should be as they are about exactly the same thing and therefore would be considered spam!
As for me telling georgekidd to
butt out... maybe I should have done that in person (and next time I will!
)