Different names, same marriage date for same spouse.

Question

The profile for Nicholas Janssen De Witt 1594-1659 shows a spouse Tiata Tjarks Bremer married 1620.  In my research, the spouse of Nicholas is Taaltje Claessen 1595-1635 married in 1620.  My information came from the "History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren Who Came From Holland To The New Netherlands in 1631 and His Descendants"  Harriett C. Waite Van Buren Peckham published one edition in 1913 New York.  There are several pages from this book which I have copied and could place on the profile or where ever they can be viewed.

My tree shows the line starting with my great grandmother Elizabeth "De Witt" Burhans Rogers.  It follows Burhans, Schoonmaker, and De Witt.  As is in the book "Burhans Genealogy by Samuel Burhans 1894, these names cross each other many times.  This shows to me that there is "one" world wide tree.

For now, can someone tell me if I can edit a profile that is in the Project Collateral-Prospect category?

Comments

Just for reference:

• The first profile you refer to is http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Witt-107 -- that's the man born in 1594.
• Your great grandmother (born in 1852) has the profile http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burhans-91

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And the book you cite is available for free online at https://archive.org/stream/historycornelis00peckgoog (no need to upload pages here). However, I don't see any reference in that book to these ancestors born in the 1590s. Did you mean to refer to some other book?

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It looks like a profile for Taaltje Claessen was merged into http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bremer-186 (Taatje Bremer) some time ago. At that time, Steven Mix explained in a comment that "Claessen is not a valid patronymic birth name for her, because that is instead how she would have sometimes been known as wife of her husband's name. Claes is diminutive for Nicholas."

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Ellen,  Thanks for the clarification.  Is the spelling of her name Taaltje Bremer or Tiata Tjarks Bremer?  I found two books on "Open Library", "Burhans Genealogy" and "History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren Who Came From Holland To The New Netherlands in 1631 And His Descendants".  Also, I have her dates as B.1596/1595 D.1647/1635.  And a father, Tiarck Bremer.  Which is the best info?