Comments on: Making Certain I Have the Right Person, by Michael John Neill

by: Donna Holland

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:58:53 +0000

I have read your pages and i still can not figure out how to find the name of my gg-grandfather. i know my g-grandfather,know where he was born and the year.he is from Maryland,but there is not one clue as to who his father and mother was. so how do all of these people go back to the begining of time ? can they prove all the stuff that they write and say, i would say no they can not.i have found so much wrong information on Ancestry.com and its a shame and what you have to do to correct it is unreal.If there is a secreat to go back to find a ggg relative i sure would like to know how.trying to find a immagration is a joke. or birth certicates, death records. if your family was not promiment and did nothing but live have children and die you wont find much.I will tell you that Maryland is suppose to have good records but i don’t find this is so. I guess 1818 is not in there indexes.

by: Helen B. Dalton

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:19:56 +0000

I do not like to have to go to the Blog to get the rest of an article started in the Weekly Journal. Why isn’t the whole article in the Weekly Journal like it used to be?

by: Ruth Ann Shepherd

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:55:42 +0000

When and how can I get the rest of the story?

by: Cheryle Latour

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:27:49 +0000

Thank you for this article! But how do you get someone who is supposedly a professional genealogist to correct their mistake? I have found that too many people use this information as the truth instead as a guide without researching it. What I have found on my family is on the Faye Moran website. She she states that the parents of Thomas Cooper (1780-1823)were John and Elizabeth (Padgett) Cooper and his siblings were wrong. While they may have had a son named Thomas Cooper the one she uses is NOT their son. People on Ancestry.com in the family trees are using this as the truth without researching it. The parents of Thomas Cooper (1780-1823) who married his second wife Martha Winston Dabney were Thomas (died 1789 in Caroline Co., MD) and Taphenus, various spellings, (White) Cooper. This Cooper family moved to Caswell Co., NC in 1794 from Caroline Co., MD. and finally settled in Davidson Co., NC. They also are using Thomas Cooper Sr and Jr as the same person. Thomas Sr did not have the middle initial of D. His son Thomas Dabney Cooper did. In fact one of Thomas Dabney Cooper’s granddaughters is still living and is very upset about this. The will of Thomas Cooper Sr and the Memoirs of Thomas Cooper (Jr) proves all of this. Please be sure to check out other resources! I am very thankful to have a website like Ancestry.com that provides us with photos of original resources and/or tells us where to get them. THANK YOU ANCESTRY.COM!

by: Robert Baca

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:30:03 +0000

That is a very informative article. Doing my own genealogy can be complicated. Oftentimes I find many people with the same names living around the same time. Although your method doesn’t break down all the brick walls, it will help out a bit.

by: ****************

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:11:48 +0000

Per reference to age of Katherine at marriage as being very young - this, as you note, is not ‘unheard’ of: my own gr-grandmother married at age 13 and gave birth to the first of fourteen children within one year.

by: Elizabeth Irvine Skepper

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:43:13 +0000

Found the article very interesting, lucky to have a relatively unusual name - my problem is they all have the same names and come from the same part of Scotland, but I’ll keep going. Thank you for the helpful tips.

by: Juliana

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:02:27 +0000

Sorry about the broken links. I’m checking into it right now. It looks like the headlines rolled to the library, but not the articles themselves. Hopefully we’ll have it fixed shortly.

Juliana

by: JW Young

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:19:02 +0000

Very interesting and helpful article. Too bad Ancestor dot com wouldn’t allow the links to open pages. There must have been a charge and someone forgot to tell us.
JWY