Questioning Mayflower connection FS sent me between John Buck and Edmund Alger
Questioning Mayflower Connection FS sent me. After boasting to other family members (oops) I noticed something didn't look right in the lineage that connected me to Francis Cooke. It showed Edmund Alger's father as John Buck when I could only find his father as Joseph Alger. Does this mean Francis Cooke is NOT my 13th great-grandfather? I am bummed!
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Thank you for your post about Mayflower relationship connections.
It looks like your ancestor is Edmond Alger LZZM-TV1. If that is correct, then some updates are needed on his person page in FamilySearch.
This will make your tree more accurate but will remove your relationship to John Buck and Francis Cooke will not be your 13th great-grandfather.
1. Edit Parent-child Relationship
a. Remove Edmond Alger LZZM-TV1 from incorrect parents John Buck and Mary Ames, wrong surname.
a. Remove “?” 4V82-S48
b. Reason: There are no Sources attached.
3. Merge duplicates by ID number
a. Edmund Alger LZT&WGJ merge with MKM6-5NC
b. Nathan Alger LCRC-DH4 with MKMF-8TK
For detailed instructions see the attached links.
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Thank you for posting in the Community about your concern that the connection from yourself to Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, LZ2F-MM7, may not be accurate. You can report your concern by using the steps below:
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Please, do not remove ? 4V82-SY8. Instead, determine who she is suppose to be. ? in records this far back almost always represent a sealing of child to parent in which the mother's name was unknown. Just deleting a ? will almost always result in a blue box on the ordinance page. These sealings most often show up in Family Tree as a father with one couple relationship missing the wife but having children and the same father have a wife with name ?.
Assuming this pattern holds here, ? is the mother of either Edumd Alger chr 19 Jul 1772 (sealed 27 Aug 1975 in Ogden) or Nathan Alger chr 19 jul 1772 (sealed 27 Aug 1975 in Ogden), or both. Both boys sealings that have that blue box listed against them. Both have IGI sources that list the christening with just their father's name. The first question that comes up is was there really, truly absolutely only one Edmund Alger in West Bridgewater that could possibly be having children in 1772?
Research needs to be done to determine who these brothers were, if the Edmund and ? they were sealed to are this Edmund Alger and his wife at the time or not, and the family relationships correctly maintained and merged.
It seems a bit late for the two boys to not be christened until 1772 if they were born in 1762 and 1768. But I am not familiar with the customs of that time or place. But I would find good evidence that they belong in the family, that there not some incorrect merges that need to be reversed, and get evidence that ties the birth sources and christening sources together before merging children just because their names are the same.
These Family Tree records have enough problems to not just make more changes without full analysis of how they got in the state they are in and clear evidence of what really needs to be done to correct them.
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