The whole purpose of this video is to explain who Laban Morris's parents probably are and to correct the record of who they DEFINITELY AREN'T. They definitely aren't Thomas Morris and Rachel Platt of Burbage, Wiltshire, England. That is incorrect information that...
Too many researchers conclude Cason and Averilla Scott were husband and wife. I have lost count of the number of trees, forum posts and other media to make this claim. In fact, they were brother and sister. This misapprehension may have begun with a hurricane. The...
While Ancestry is notorious for spreading false information, you should also be wary of Find-a-Grave (link to her page). Remember, both sites depend on users, who are human, to create family trees/bios. Always, always, always check the facts against contemporary...
I'm really excited about this Family Tree Fact Check! I've been curious about who the parents of Turner Nelson were ever since I realized he wrote a letter from Indiana back home to Craven County in which he kindly mentioned my ancestor Laban Morris and expressed...
I don't descend from Thomas Respess Crawford, at least not that I'm aware of, however some of our AncestryDNA matches do and I was scratching my head at the woman who was recorded as his wife. A Mary Tuton of Beaufort County, SOUTH Carolina. I didn't even know any...
This new series will attempt to correct records, one family branch at a time, that have mushroomed across the online genealogical communities. Ok... I'm not going to claim that I don't have any mistakes in my enormous tree on Ancestry. I've been working...