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.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
John Browne, Plymouth Colony and Dorothy Who?
Here we go again. There are trees out there who have John Browne being born all over England, but his place of birth hasn't been established with any certainty. The John Browne of Kent was returned to England so it wasn't he. In a research article Http://newsgroups. derkeilert.com his father is thought to be Phillip, elder brother of Reverend Robert Browne. There is a chance he is John Browne of Louth, Lincolnshire. He may have been bapt. Alford, possible home of Philip's wife. So again, people are spreading supposition, and most likely, erroneous supposition as fact in their family trees. There's no evidence of Dorothy being a Beauchamp, though the family was acquainted with Beauchamps. But do you really think that he and his mythical father Thomas both were married to a Dorothy Beauchamp? And the William that someone else names as his father has no basis in fact either. This John was definitely associated with the Wray and Vane families and John Robinson of Leydon, as was John in Plymouth. Read the article in this newsgroup, it's in pdf format and well written and researched. Let me repeat well written and researched. Need I say it again? http://newsgroups.derkeilert.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2006-02/msg00017.html
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