Should this profile be part of the PGM project?

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George is mentioned inThe abridged compendium of American genealogy; first families of America; a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States, v.5. (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001963849) as being a puritan (and he did migrate to america). It appears that he was part of this group, and there is well documented information about him (and his family).

Being new to the project (please be gentle), I want to make sure that this is correct. I am not the profile manager, and perhaps it could be directed to the profile manager (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howland-1489) to add George Shove (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shove-72#_ref-2) to the project?

How would I best go about things in consideration to this profile (and potential project submission)?

WikiTree profile: George Shove
in Genealogy Help by C Anonymous G2G6 Mach 1 (11.9k points)

2 Answers

+6 votes
the Individual has too have settled in New England from 1616-1640 in New England. so no he says 1655 in New England. Stil a cool profile.
by Living Smith G2G6 Mach 6 (60.0k points)
George Shove's profile clearly states he emigrated in 1638.
It didn't have the details of emigration  at the time the original question was submitted. It probably now needs a review
+8 votes
The PGM project uses a (fairly arbitrary) cutoff date for immigration of before 1640.  Since your George Shove immigrated in 1655, we would not put him in the project.  There are some circumstances where the PGM project will cover profiles outside of this time period, but this is generally to provide Project Protection to people with known errors which impact on the PGM project (e.g. incorrect parents, wives or children).
by Joe Cochoit G2G6 Pilot (256k points)
1640 is not really such an arbitrary date as it might appear at first.  There is a webinar on YouTube about researching 17th-C New England Ancestors, where an expert on New England genealogical research explains the way historic events in England led fo Puritans first fleeing to New England because of severe persecution from the official state church (the Anglican church headed by Archbishop Laud and ultimately by the King), and then taking up arms and actually overthrowing (and executing) the KIng and forming a whole new government, headed by a Puritan, Cromwell, as Lord Protector.

The persecution reached its zenith during the 1630s and the armed revolt started about 1640.

Mr. Dearborn displayed a graph showing the number of people who came to New England during each year of the 1600s, from which it was easy to see how fast immigration took off in 1633 when the worst of the perseuction started, and then, how it suddenly plummeted to a mere trickle in 1640.  You could really visualize how the people who had been coming to New England suddenly decided to stay and fight things out at home.  So,1640 really does mark the end of the historic event which has come to be described as the Puritan Great Migration.

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