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Private User

9/8/2023 at 10:57 PM

A link to the Cory family genealogy that should work this time.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Some_Chronicles_of_the_Cory_Fa...

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 12:25 AM

Private User - that’s great, thank you.

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 12:39 AM

This is where the mixup comes from.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19163988/martha-cory

Martha, daughter of Benjamin Parkhurst of Westfield, NJ.

Inscription
HERE LIETH
ye Body of Martha
widow of John Cory
who died Sept. ye 24
1777. In ye 71 Year of
her age.
J.A.

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 12:55 AM

And you can “blame” Pvt. Benjamin Scudder, III (John Cory’s son in law) for the Martha Parkhurst identification of his mother in law:

He married Martha Parkhurst, ca 1728, in Westfield, Essex Co., NJ. Born ca 1707. Died, 24 Sept. 1777, in Westfield, Essex Co., NJ (Daughter of Benjamin Parkhurst of Westfield, NJ). In Benjamin Scudder's diary, page 38 (Proceedings, NJ Historical Society) written 1776: States that Benjamin Scudder's wife was the daughter of John Cory of Westfield, Essex Co., NJ and that her mother was Martha Parkhurst born in Newark, NJ. Martha's will was proved 5 March 1778, Liber 18, page 681. Executor: Son Abner Cory and son-in-law Benjamin Scudder. (Cory's of America Ancestors and Descendants" Second Edition, Vo. I, Pg 13; Compiled by Al Bertus Cory)

Private User

9/9/2023 at 3:20 AM

I wouldn't blame Pvt. Benjamin Scudder, III Erica Howton because that information came from the editor of the almanac in which he made marginal notations, not directly from his hand.

Let me know if this link doesn't work, the Family Search Books urls are tricky for some reason. Although strangely they work for me the first time or two before they 'crash'.

www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/450772

Private User

9/9/2023 at 3:25 AM

Benjamin Scudder and another Scudder were next door neighbors to the John Denman family in Westfield, btw. Their lands adjoined, as seen in their wills.

Private User

9/9/2023 at 3:57 AM

I see it now, from his transcribed family Bible. But, in that husbands sometimes don't even remember their mother-in-laws' maiden names, as apparent in so many death certificates where they were the informants for their deceased wives (Sarah being the first of three wives for Benjamin), I will now look for their original marriage records. I was deep into some early NJ marriage records awhile back before I became frustrated/distracted and set it aside temporarily.

www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/450772

Private User

9/9/2023 at 3:59 AM

www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/450772/90

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 4:04 AM

I added more notes to Martha Cory and can’t find any mention of Martha Parkhurst after her mention in her father’s will in 1721.

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 4:17 AM

http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/450772/90

her Mothers name Before She Maryed Sd John Cory was Martha Parkhurst....

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

9/9/2023 at 7:25 AM

Regarding Maria Catharina Siegfried (Levan), I am working blind. Really I am just here asking for help with what others know so that she can be the three people she is meant to be...I do not want to reinvent the wheel.... Please review.
I will revisit the branch next week. Am trying to work on several branches of a DNA matcher's tree and I do not share this line with him but see it is in need of repair and MP to prevent further confusion.
Thank you again

Private User

9/9/2023 at 2:35 PM

Ezekiel Walker

He's locked to two sets of parents.

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 2:59 PM

Undid merge.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=84503247970

I realize the dates / locations look the same, but relationships do not match. Ezekiel Walker Is a less developed profile and more likely to have picked up similar traits. In any event, more sourcing will resolve the question. Meanwhile, keep separate.

Erica Howton C

9/9/2023 at 4:00 PM

OK, re did merge. Ezekiel, son of Capt. Samuel Walker, Sr. is the only Ezekiel in this generation.

Private

9/9/2023 at 5:36 PM

It got too complicated to tag from an initial profile.
Based on this https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/King-4715 which is cited in some related profiles at Geni, it seems that these half sisters have gotten confused in Geni.

This Hannah (b. 1638 daughter of James Cutler and his 1st Wife Anna (Unknown). is supposed to have married John Coller/Collier which is this profile
Hannah Collier
but in the locked tree, she is married to John Winter, who married her half sister, Hannah King, the daughter of James Culter's 2nd wife, Mary who was widow of Thomas King.
Hannah Winter

The Hannah who married John Winter is this Geni profile
Hannah Winter

THANKS

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

9/11/2023 at 8:27 AM

I added to the DNA Integration Discussion but it appears unattended
(cross posted there: https://www.geni.com/discussions/157595?msg=1653942 )

Please see https://www.geni.com/discussions/269826?msg=1653939 regarding need assistance to correct Y DNA propagation to different lines of unrelated COMPTON including patriot and gentleman line.

John Compton, of Tazewell County
John Compton, of Charles County
Y DNA project with evidence these are currently in need of correction and Geni Pro user is asking for help with making her line correct
TY

Linda Zimmerman C

9/11/2023 at 5:47 PM

Private I know this probably is not going to help much, but!
I have been working on Parker's in Arkansas and in hunting for folks in the census, and I remember seeing Kings, Parkers Cutler and Collier. they were not who I was looking for but it was today.

https://www.geni.com/list/descendants/6000000012900468021#8

Jefffey Gorton

9/11/2023 at 6:56 PM

I am contacting you about this profile: William Hills, of Hartford I'm looking at his pedigree with a lot of suspicion. His father is listed as Thomas-Hills/6000000004237748827 (relationship unconfirmed), and his grand-father is listed as NN. From there he has extensive ancestry that extends back 16 generations or so to King Henry I and earlier. I have a hard time believing an un-named ancestor can be traced back more than 16 generations.
Is this information reliable?

Private User

9/11/2023 at 8:04 PM

Erica Howton

Please take a look at these merges. The last name on one of them doesn't exactly match and he now has 3 sets of parents. I don't know if they're just not very good trees, or if they need to be unmerged.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=84519425480

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=84519427340

Karl David Wright PRO

9/12/2023 at 1:52 PM

The Archibald Douglas tree has gotten bunged up. I have fixed part of it but the following profile has two sets of parents and I am unable to disconnect the wrong parents (Archibald and his wife):

Col. Archibald Douglas

He should have just William and Agnes Fawside.

Erica Howton C

9/12/2023 at 2:31 PM

Karl David Wright - boogers, looks like a bug. I can’t remove the wrong relationship either. I’ll try undo merges.

Erica Howton C

9/12/2023 at 2:40 PM

Karl David Wright - I can’t remove any relationship at the moment, can you? Asking geni.

Erica Howton C

9/12/2023 at 2:52 PM

Karl David Wright - undoing merge resolved Col. Archibald Douglas

Karl David Wright PRO

9/12/2023 at 3:22 PM

Erica Howton, thank you!

Private User

9/13/2023 at 9:11 AM

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=84529000780

This merge caused a relationship problem and he now has 3 set of parents.

Karl David Wright PRO

9/13/2023 at 11:55 AM

Trying to set marriage date and place for Richard Croucher to Dec 20, 1718, Richmond VA, but even though the profile isn't mastered, the marriage date field is locked.

Jim Wile C

9/13/2023 at 1:17 PM

Karl David Wright I don't know why it wouldn't edit for you. It is changed.

Karl David Wright PRO

9/13/2023 at 1:19 PM

Thanks!

Erica Howton C

9/13/2023 at 1:53 PM

Hi Jefffey Gorton - cleaned up around William Hills, of Hartford thank you for calling attention.

It seems William was from the Upminster area in Essex, England (east England). I don’t think it is confirmed that he was the son of Thomas Hills, of Upminster & Jane Hills but it is not illogical or unsupported: “Donald L Jacobus in Hale, House and Related Families, suggests that William Hills who died at Hartford, was perhaps the Wlliam Hills baptized at Upminster 27 Dec 1608. …”. Is there more recent research affirming or denying?

However, is unlikely that this Thomas was the son of William Hill, of Poundisford & Lucy Hill in Somerset (south west England).

They did have a son Thomas. “xiii. THOMAS, b. about 1568; lived in Chard, where he d. in 1629 probably unmarried.”

So, I’ve locked relationships all around.

We did need “unknown placeholder” profiles before we had relationship locking but as you saw with the NN’s acquiring parents, that can be a strategy that backfires when data conflicts are not resolved. Which is what happened there.

Jefffey Gorton

9/13/2023 at 3:09 PM

Thanks again for all you do.

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