From Robert Raymond

Laurence,

Thank you for your analysis. I am glad someone with analytical skills is watching this line. I’ve often wanted to investigate this line, but have not had the time. It could benefit from extensive old world research with the possibility of putting together an indirect proof of parentage.

Here are a few thoughts on the sources:

  • AGBI is an index to published sources. Rather than believe what Ancestry puts on the screen, we need to access the referenced source and see for ourselves what it has to say and what sources it cites. It appears to be https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/45751.
  • Millennium File and the Family Data Collections were collections of unsourced family group sheets acquired by Ancestry. Both are no better sources than what you find on any other unsourced family group sheet.
  • Membership of The Church of … is another compiled source. If I’m not mistaken, Ancestral File was one of her sources. If she doesn’t specify her source for this particular information, or if she specifies Ancestral File, then this information is no more definitive than anything else in Ancestral File.
  • Aunt Effie was apparently an accomplished genealogist, but like others in her generation, I don’t think she specified her sources. But she may be the only source we can find for some of this information. Someone needs to analyze what her probable sources might have been. Can we locate them ourselves? Was she an eyewitness? Did she have contact with an eyewitness? Etc., etc. Standard analyses need to be applied.

Someone needs to hunt down original sources of primary evidence for this information.

Laurence, I hope you will attach your analysis as a document and a source on all the referenced persons. Hopefully this will dissuade others from further messing up this line.

Thanks again for what you are doing,

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