John Matthews Biography Needs Fixing

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This is a pre-1700 Certification. I posted a comment in early June, and Dani Desio also commented in Sept. 2017 about the wrong children listed in the biography. Starting with entry No. 3 about John, the information contains all of the children of Daniel Matthews-130.
WikiTree profile: John Matthews
in Genealogy Help by Diane Hildebrandt G2G6 Pilot (109k points)

Howdy Diane!  I'd really like to encourage you to take the Pre-1700 Certification quiz, so you can be free to tackle these, whenever you want.  It's really easy.  I can summarize it as - add good sources, and do good work, always ready to collaborate!

First, read the Help page, then go through the quiz page and click EVERY answer, so you know why each is right or wrong.  Then leave each one on the right answer, click the button at the bottom, and you're done, certified!  Here's the links:

Ok Rob, I took the quiz :)

Super!  yes

Now you can change them the way you want!  I know that my methods and styles are not for everyone, so feel free to re-style anything I have done!  I'm much more of a data collector than a bio writer.

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I have done just a bit of research into this profile. Looking in the change log I see that the current biography with the list of children was added in August 2017.  This information was copied directly from page 1673 of the cited source -- a formatting mistake makes the list appear incorrectly.  What looked like the 5th child of John was actually the fiths child of his son, Daniel.  I have cleaned up the formatting and moved some info to the son Daniel and the grandson, Silas.
by Jim Angelo G2G6 Mach 6 (62.5k points)
edited by Jim Angelo
Thanks so much Jim for stepping up to correct this profile. I admit it was driving me nuts (more crazy than usual lol) to see it with misinformation that I couldn't correct.

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