A plea to those who perpetuate bad limbs on their family trees

There are many in the genealogy world who copy erroneous information to their family trees, picking the rotten limbs off other trees and passing them on and on. This blog is created in a hope of helping to end some of this. It does no one any good to pass on misinformation and blatantly fraudulent branches on your tree. Put some effort into your work and produce a tree your family can be proud of, accurate and reliable.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Edward Bates-Weymouth Massachusetts

There are several guesses as to the parentage of Edward Bates, all being guesses but included in family histories as being certain. Edward was supposedly a manservant to Thomas Leverett. Thomas Leverett came from Boston Lincolnshire in 1630 so if he was is servant he would have arrived then, being about 25 years old. Being a son of James of Lydd is probably not legit as no such son is mentioned in his will and it is supposed that his son Edward had died in Lydd. If he did come with Leverett then he isn't the edward who married susannah putnam in Buckingham in 1632 and he couldn't have been here in 1633 with three children.
So clean up your tree until some connection is proven.
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