Add Probable Father As Connected or Unconnected?

Question

i am working on connecting Robert Stephens Beall to a father, who I believe is Samuel Page Beall.  I don't have an absolute connection yet, but all the circumstantial evidence leads there. Which is the best process:

• Enter Samuel as Robert's father, indicating the uncertainty until I can prove the connection; or
• Enter Samuel without the connection to Robert and just include a reference in both profiles indicating the probable connection?

Answer 1

My vote would be to add the known evidence and related citations in the biography and indicate the relationship as uncertain.

Comments

I generally agree with Peter unless you make a really strong case with good sources in which case you could place him in the father field with uncertain.

But start out by linking a g2g to his profile and use the g2g to make your case and let us see the evidence. I look forward to it as I LOVE evidence analysis.

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I see you've got the argument in the profile itself. That also works. Have you found him in the 1900 census? He should be with his parents yes?