SHERMAN TAYLOR MARRIAGES

"John Taylor: A Scottish Merchant of Glasgow and New York, 1752-1833. A family narrative for his descendants." written by great-granddaughter Emily Johnson de Forest (daughter of Frances Colles Johnston and John Taylor Johnston (1820-1893)) ... is included in the Sources section.

thanks. it was very common for siblings to marry other family siblings. And many times instead of siblings they were cousins. The towns were very small and there weren't many people to choose from.

In the urban areas/small towns of New England, you see it more that maybe a brother and a sister marry a sister and a brother. or 2 brothers, or 2 sisters. In the more isolated regions of Virginia and North Carolina, you see more sibling pairs. and as you get into the 1780s to 1830s period and westward expansion. You typically see 3 and more siblings. It is rarer not to see sibling pairs in a family group. People were having like 9 to 14 kids at that time and living on farms in relatively isolated pioneer communities.

Also, you see that also in Quaker communities and in Mennonite communities in PA, VA, and NC, since you had to marry from within the community.

That's why it quickly becomes very confusing as to who is related to whom and common for mix-ups to happen.

also, what exactly do you need help on?

This is why whenever I am moving through the horizontal tree view and I see spouses of siblings with the same last name who don't have parents.. I look to see if they are on the family group of one of them already. Often the other pair is there but without the parent of the spouse to link them as duplicates.

Otherwise, I search to see who they married and follow them back, since it is more often a sibling of their sibling's spouse or a cousin.

Erica Howton I do have the book and Family Trees by each child in the source, but I'll continue to add information. Wanted to make sure it made sense to others before I went on.

Erica Howton I'll include that today

I just found Caroline Crook Taylor (Sherman), the wife of son Scott Taylor and have out through the edits - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156523643/caroline-crook

Aaron Furtado Baldwin, UE9006698 Wow that's a great About Comments for John Taylor, Esq.

I suggest this to save you a bunch of time and to help each individual profile tell their own story.

Just list the children on the mother and father's profiles. And leave any other information about that specific person in their About comments. You could provide the link to the children's geni profile if you want, but it isn't needed, since there is a link at the top to them. Typically, you would only need to add links, say, if you are referring to someone beyond those at the top, like you did so well with Roger Sherman, where it would be hard to go to them directly otherwise.

And then take all the info you include on the kids that you put in the father's About comments and paste it into their profiles -- since it is about them after all.

For example with daughter Jennet, you include all this interesting stuff about her on her father's profile, yet only have a link to Find a Grave on hers. Someone arriving at her profile, say, by coming from her husband's family, would not know to go to her father to find the info about her.

Also, I think the way you have the Find A Grave link at her profile is much better than taking the time to write the Find A Grave Memorial Number over the link. I don't know of anyone who is going to be at the Find A Grave site and then need to type in a memorial number to find them. Once they go to the link, they are already at the memorial and don't need the number. Plus, if the number ever changes due to a duplicate merge at FAG the link will follow to the new memorial number if that changes.

Have fun, Remember that most people don't want to read. For anything that you are retyping from some Document that you uploaded to the source file, you should just say "Refer to the document in the Source Tab". Less but more focused info in the About comment will help someone read it, AND most importantly, in the future if another profile is merged, it will also merge the About comments, and if yours part is concise and short, it will be easy to delete all the other that gets pasted in (unless it brings something new to the comments). You won't have to go through and edit in detail, you can quickly see if there is anything new, and if not, just copy the entire new info and hit delete. Quick and easy.

Also, it's minor but I find it important. I notice in all the "Confirmed Matches" attached to the profile (of father John Taylor, Esq.) is that some have the wife's name as Mildred instead of Margaret. If you can figure out why it is that, you can add that to her profile name. Maybe it is a middle name. But if you can't figure out why very easily, then add a note when first writing her name something like ...

wife Margaret Scott [sometimes found as Mildred for some unknown reason in MyHeritage profiles]

I personally would remove the "smart matches" that are wrong. But if you leave them, maybe let people know as they look at them that Mildred might not be her name, like

[sometimes found as Mildred for some unknown reason in the Smart Matches above]

Great work.