Abigail McClung (Dickson) - Maiden Name

Thanks, Erica. Also, according to Ancestry, the sister Judith connected is connected to the wrong family here.

Judith “Juda” Shawver

Judith is on my half-sister's paternal lines and Ancestry trees have her parents as a Joseph Carpenter with his wife Leah, not Abigail. Which that matches the About section comment that Abigail only had one chlild - this Abigail McClung.

Judith (Carpenter) Shawver
1764–1860

BIRTH ABT. 1764 • Augusta, Virginia, Colonial America

DEATH 1860 • Virginia, USA

Father: Joseph Carpenter (1720–1792)
Mother: Leah Carpenter (1720–1792)

Well the same Joseph here has wives Leah and Abigail, so it appears to be the same Joseph unless someone has mixed up two same-name guys and given them both wives.

That's why I prefer a descendant or curator make any necessary connections, because I'm an inlaw thru my half-sister on her Shawver lines, and a distant cousin sharing the Peake ancestry on my lines. But I'd only recently worked a little on the Shawver connections, which is what brought me to these other folks I'd never heard of before and don't know anything other than what is in any of the profile notes or Ancestry info.

So the connections I'm really working with are how these folks are connected to the Shawver line through Judith (Carpenter) Shawver. But that's when I noticed that Abigail is probably her half-sister, not her full sister...based on the profile notes.

I meant corrections, not connections

But see, you things like you mentioned about the Carpenter Cousins, and I'd never heard of these folks.

Thanks so much for that link!

I fix the things I know on my direct lines, but as you know...when tracing connections to inlaws and distant cousins we run into lines we know nothing about and we need their managers to document and/or fix any errors. Like you, the rest of us researching our lines don't have time to fix unknown lines not in our direct ancestry either. I'd never get my own research done if I had to do all that. Might as well sign up to be a Geni curator if I was going to tackle all that, and I'm winding down on research at this stage of my life. So I open discussions hoping the people who posted the profiles and those who manage them, etc. will jump in and assist. My discussions are usually, unless on my own direct lines, an effort to bring an issue to their awareness, as many times they haven't realized there is a problem.

Thanks, Erica. :).

And, it was only because of the good notes in that profile about Abigail only having one child and Ancestry showing Leah and the mother of Judith that I was able to see what probably needed correcting. It always helps if there's something of substance in the profiles.