Reading a Genealogy

The format of each record is:

ID. Name (Generation)
Born: Date of Birth, Location (if known)
Died: Date of Death, Location (if known)

Spouse: The other parent of the direct ancestor.

Child: This person's child who was a direct ancestor.

Parents:
Father ID and name: Click the link to go to the record for this person's father.
Mother ID and name: Click the link to go to the record for this person's mother.

Siblings: This person’s brothers and sisters, listed in “best known” birth order.

Other Notes:

Once a parent is listed as “Unknown”, no further entries are made for that parent’s ancestors, although I reserve the appropriate IDs in case I find them later.

A double question mark indicates an unknown name: ?? Jones or Sarah ??.

A single question mark indicates the information is not certain: England?; 1, Jan 1600?

Spellings of last names change frequently, even within a given family. The spelling listed herein is the spelling I found for the given individual, but, any of the others spellings of the last name COULD be correct.

Spellings of first names represent the most common spelling found for this individual. For example: Tunis Newkirk could be Tunis, Teunis, Tuenis, Thunis, Theunis, Thuenis, etc. Any of these spellings COULD be correct.

Finally, keep in mind that there is a LOT of bad data on the sites I have researched. I have found entries in family trees for children who were born before their parents were born; 80 year old women giving birth; people living 120+ years, etc. It is very annoying that so many people just replicate this bad data without question! Generally, once I find a tree that contains what I consider "garbage", I throw out ALL the data from that tree. I have found a few lines that I could trace back more than 12 generations, but the information seems so doubtful that it was not included.

I have done my best to filter out all the bad data and have made notes when I have made assumptions, but, some garbage data may have inadvertently slipped by me. If you see an obvious error or if something looks suspicious, PLEASE let me know: PaulPendleton@Comcast.net.