Gary Kueber

Gary, re your comment on the page for Silas Hopkins UE (Hopkins-881). Here is my input: I am a descendant of Silas' brother Caleb Hopkins. I am in possession of my grandmother's extensive genealogical research, which included correspondence with several of Silas' descendants. In one of the letters, it states that the DAR records are "wrong" in saying that Silas died in Hope, N.J., and that he is in fact buried near Toronto, Canada. I don't have other proof of that, as yet, but supposedly it exists. I do agree with you, however, that it seems unlikely Silas was born in Wales...I feel that birth place is probably wrong info. However, everything other than his places of birth and death, including parentage, seem to match up with the facts I have. Thanks!

Gary: You proposed a bunch of matches and merges for some of my Moores and Wards. But the other versions are all orphaned imports from Ancestry that include no info and link only to a non-public tree. Wouldn't it be better just to eliminate those orphaned files somehow? I'm hesitant to merge with those kinds of files.

Hi Gary,

This one stayed in DeKalb, so if yours ended up in Macon - likely not the same person - but likely related somewhere.

He's a collateral line that is the husband of my first cousin 3 times removed and part of a very large very messy DeKalb convoluted disaster..that even the chance of DNA sorting things out is dicey..

My suggestion si that perahps we split them up, since there is doubt - put Johnetta with the new one and then add them as unmerged matches and then as we work through trees and can definitivley say one way or the other we do a final solution.. with notes on both profiles so others know off the start.

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Hi. Been doing some work on the Willoughbys and Griffiths of Boynton Hall. Will you look at Samuel Griffith? His mother is given as Margaret Willoughby, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby. The daughter of Sir Henry who married a Griffith was Elizabeth and had no children. There is no Margaret in the available sources. I'd like to remove her as Samuel's mother and make her whole. Otherwise detach Margaret from the given parents. which do you prefer?

Hi, Gary,

Thanks for looking at a merge for Amasa Piper. I believe we may be looking at 2 or 3 different Amasa Pipers. My ability to research 18th century ancestors is limited, but since I uploaded my tree I have come to believe Amasa Piper, b. 1777, spouse of Margery Reed. was the son of Abel Piper and Sibyl Sawyer, not Amasa Sr. The Amasa born in 1780 was likely the son of Amasa Sr. and Artemas. Looking at Ancestry trees, they are split between these two scenarios for Amasa b. 1777, the father of Sarah Sawyer Piper. I'm late to correct this on WikiTree, and will detach my Amasa from Amasa Sr. and his spouse, Artemas. There is a lot of uncertainty here. Checking gedmatch.com, we don't have shared DNA, but at this level of remoteness, absence is meaningless. Many thanks for the nudge!

I marked the ones with different surname spellings unmerged matches so we can research what the name should be. Otherwise someone might come along and merge them into the wrong surname! Thanks!

Thanks for the merge requests--it happens to me too. I think sometimes it's because of having two names in the first name field on one profile and only 1 on the other.

Mary Griffith married RIchard Simmons after William Willett's death.

William Willett's will was signed on 7/10/1772 and probated 8/27/1772, so he died between those dates, according to the book Mary Louise Donnelly wrote on the Willett family. My Mother is great-great-great granddaughter.