http://blog.ancestraldata.com en-us 05 November 2023 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2023-11-05-Bennett.html I have long suggested that conflation is the original sin of genealogy. The amalgamation of two or three individuals into one can be enormously difficult to untangle, and it can send generations of fa...; 17 July 2023 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2023-07-17-Bennett.html Robert Bennett was a successful 16th-century tanner in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, and the immediate forebear of a consequential Jamestown family. His youngest son was Edward, a wealthy London me...; 20 January 2023 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2023-01-20-donkeytail.html A genealogy club I was associated with several years ago needed a home for about a thousand volumes of good genealogical material, including many of the standard and often famous genealogical volumes....; 15 August 2021 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2021-08-15-Curry.html Strictly speaking, this brief article would not go into the Bogus Genealogies blog. It certainly doesn't fit the genetic genealogy blog, although well-placed Y-DNA testing might resolve the p...; 22 October 2019 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2019-10-22-maryann.html Describing, weighing, and interpreting data constitutes the majority of a historian's work. Unfortunately, that data is often tweaked to forward an agenda. The cliches are familiar: &quot...; 20 August 2019 http://blog.ancestraldata.com/viewer.pl?2019-08-20-Cooley.html Lura Coolley Hamil died of a heart attack in Lincoln, Illinois at the beginning of January 1933. She'd spent the previous several months looking for a publisher for her book, A Story of Pione...;