Edward Kempe/Kemp of Chelmsford Mass.

I've seen a number of trees making Edward Kemp of Chelmsford the Edward Kemp of Gissing who went to Barbados. That Edward went to Virginia as other Gissing Kempes did. In the many years that I have been researching families, I can't, off the top of my head, think of anyone who settled in Massachusetts from Barbados, except perhaps for pirates. Most of the Barbados colonists were, like the Virginia colonist royalist, both colonies were founded by persons loyal to Charles I. In any case, Edward of Gissing couldn't live in two places at once. I have found a record in the Norfolk/Suffolk area of England for an Edward Kempe who married an Ann Buchenham in Apr 1628, she being born in 1606 to Henry Buchenham. I don't find her mentioned in that source after that.
Now don't go putting that in your tree. There's no verification that this is the same person.

Wreaking havoc by guesswork

Don't guess. Sometimes luck may be on your side, or the preponderence of evidence leads you to the most likely prospect, but finding someone in a record who matches the date and just plugging them into your tree? NOT!! It may seem harmless but if you publish that guess on the net and it's a wrong guess it can proliferate and pollute family lines all over the web. People who are equally as lax in checking their facts will copy your work, believing that your information is accurate. Make a file and note your guess for verification later before you add it to your tree. Just a little effort saves alot of whoa and helps contribute to the professionalism of family research.

John Lovejoy of Andover Mass.

I've found several trees on the web that links this John with Rowland of London. But it would seem that Rowland's son married Sarah Fox and lived and died in London.
John has been linked with one of the Lovejoys of Caversham because his married sister and her husband were aboard the same ship, whose names link them to the Caversham Lovejoys.
I'm not sure where the link to Rowland originated but this rotten branch needs to be snapped.

Three brothers in a boat/Hueguenot fable of Briddell/Breddel/Bridles

We who pursue the Briddell/Bridell/Breddell/Bredell/Bridle line that appears in Virginia have all heard the legend of the three French brothers who rowed a small boat across the channel to England to escape oppression in France.
The name doesn't appear in any French sources in Google books. It does appear as not only an ancient place name in Cardigan, Pembroke, Wales but of a surname also. It only seems to appear in that area of the British Isles. There is also mention of arms for Bredell. The earliest mention of the name that I've found so far was in the 1400s. Sir William Knighton's grandfather dispossessed his father for marrying Mistress Bredell, sister to a surgeon Bredell of Tavistock, in the mid 1700s. Geoffrey Bridell, on July 28 1489, was, with others ordered to pay a recognizance of L40 to make sure that another man would keep the peace in Wich-Walbank. There was a Walter Bridell, goldsmith and John Bredell, parson of Calais.
Unlike the northern colonies who wouldn't allow malcontents, criminals, and freeloaders to stay on their shores, the southern colonies were royal colonies and dumping grounds for people the crown felt were trouble makers, rabble rousers, papists and noncomformists, that included Catholics and Quakers, as well as dispossessed members of royal and noble Irish lines and daughters of poor tradesmen purchased by members of the Virginia Company to be transported to Virginia as servants and potential wives to male dominated colony there. At one point, one of the members of the company threatened to hang persons in charge of rounding up these poor young women if they didn't meet their quota and allowed anymore of them run away. But that's another story.
I think we can bury the legend of the three Huegenot brothers.

Crocker/Croker of Plymouth/Barnstaple/Maine

Another family which as been mixed up and confused. Neither Hugh who married Agnes Bonville or Hugh, the son, who married Elizabeth Colleton, ever set foot upon New England's soil. They both died in England. Hugh the second was born in 1598 and wasn't the brother of his sons, that was another Hugh who died aboard ship off Portugal. It's easy enough to see how confusion can reign as two families of Crockers, no doubt related, emigrated to the same area of Massachusetts Bay, with the names of John, William, Thomas, and Francis occurring in both. Hugh and Elizabeth Colleton had sons Hugh, William, Francis, Thomas. Hugh was captain of one of his father's ships. William, Francis and Thomas, emigrated to New England during the civil war, around 1642, legend states, to protect them from Cromwell. William relocated to Maine. He died in 1662 when preparing to return to England to settle his father's estate as Hugh had died also. Francis then returned to make his claim. Thomas removed to Connecticut and was party to the letters of grants from Charles II.
The other family of Crockers remained in the Barnstaple area and I think one removed to New Jersey. The Hugh connected with that family died aboard ship on the way over.
What a tangle!

John Wynn of Wales, ancestor to Thomas Yale/Elizabeth Mostyn

John Wynn, not Lloyd, (who was John ap David ap Ellis) who took the name Yale from Ial in Wales. was married to Elizabeth Mostyn, not Pigott, according to Burkes and other English sources. Supposedly Thomas Mostyn was married to Elizabeth Pigott.

Update on Pierrepont

It appears that John Pierrepont (married Thankful Stow) was son of James and Margaret of London, who was son of William and Elizabeth, who was son of George and Winifred Thwaits and thus back to William and Anne/Joan Empson. James of New Haven called Sir Henry Pierrepont's son Robert a second cousin.

William Peck of New Haven

There's no information regarding the ancestry of William or of the surname of Elizabeth his wife. I've seen her name given as Holt, but that was the married name of his second wife. His father's names are given as William, Stephen or Edward of London. I guess someone picked up on Edward's will and because he named a son William, made the leap. But that William married a Greene and never left London. Of William and Stephen. Don't know where they came from. So far as is known at present, no parents of William have been identified. Whether he even came from London isn't known for sure. The records of the London area that are available on Google books lists William or Jeremiah in birth or marriage records. It's good to know that no one associates him with the Wakefield branch anymore. Until proven, that's a wash.

Immigrant William Edwards of Hartford, son Richard of London

I, so far haven't found, recently repeated that William was the son of Rev. Richard Edwards of Queen Elizabeth fame, whose wife worked on the royal wardrobe. That Richard died in 1572, obviously too early to be William's father. William's father was a minister, married to Ann Munter of St. Botolphs, Aldate, as proven by the will of her mother, Julian Munter. And it looks like Abigail Cole was her daughter, not her step daughter.

Thomas Flint, Salem Village/Ann, his wife

Thomas Flint's wife's maiden name has not been identified. John Southwick was her second husband, not her father. And, by the way, he was not known as Sir Thomas Flint either. Thomas Flint of Concord who married an Oakes was not the father of Thomas of Salem Village. He was far too young. He had young children when he made his will in 1651, before sailing to England.

The bulky Bulkeley lineage

This family isn't really clear. Not sure where the purported line came from, it it's another fabrication of Anjou. Peter Bulkeley, married to Nicola Bird, was not the son of his brother Robert's line as is demonstrated in books of New England lineages. They take the line to Robert and Jane Butler and add three generations that lived after Peter in the line of Robert, his brother, as his ancestors. What a mess!! Thank God for Google Books and the English lineage books available there.

Oh, Wodin is me!!

Why do people still link their trees to a mythical Norse God??? Answers, anyone??