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, January 31, 2012

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.
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