This family is on the Scotland Project's to-do list to straighten out, but that is a very long list. Both profiles need more work before they are merged. Hamilton-23545, for example, lists his first wife as Janet Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton. This is supported by four citations: the first being a privately printed family genealogy by John Birnie which gives no sources for anything. The other three citations (one from Sir James Dunbar Paul and two from John Anderson) both actually contradict this claim, asserting that his first wife was Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Patrick Hamilton. This needs more research and there is a good possibility some of these relationships need to be changed. When a merge is done, considerable time may need to be spent to correct errors in this line. It is possible that the member who noted on Hamilton-4469 that ".....On the matter of his marriages and descendants, the secondary sources are in irreconcilable conflict. There is confusion with his son John, and his grandson John, if he had one, and his nephew John, and maybe every other John Hamilton in Scotland" may have had a good point. It also may well be that we should go ahead with the merge and then worry about trying to integrate the two profiles.
Jen, Scotland Project co-leader
