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Errors in record for Lyman Hall, signer of Declaration of Independence

Emily Anderer
Emily Anderer ✭
November 13, 2022 in Family Tree

The read-only record for Lyman Hall (KLBC-XSK), who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, has incorrect information about his descendants.

According to the links below (Find a Grave, and a biography of the Signers), Lyman Hall had only one son, John Hall (KHXY-KFS), who died without children. However, there are several other children listed on Lyman Hall's record in FamilySearch - Isaac Hall, a "Miss" and "Mr" Hall, and James Hall. These relationship links should be removed, since according to these sources, Lyman had only one son.


https://www.dsdi1776.com/signer/lyman-hall/


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61033244/john-hall


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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 13, 2022

    You are correct that Lyman Hall, the signer of the Declaration of Independence has no living descendants, and the reading of any reputable biography on him can reveal that. However, Find A Grave is never, never, never to be considered a reputable source. It is a public and crowd sourced database, built and maintained by members of the public, just as FamilySearch is. If you note, the Find a Grave memorial has several inconsistencies itself. It only shows 1 wife, when he had 2. It shows no children when in fact Lyman had, as you say, one son, who died without issue. There are plenty of reputable web sites out there and they are the reasons to update this read-only record to show one son, born of his second wife.

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  • Emily Anderer
    Emily Anderer ✭
    November 14, 2022 edited November 14, 2022

    Fair enough that Find A Grave is crowd-sourced. Here is a report from an 1885 biography stating that Lyman Hall's "only son died childless, soon after his father."

    https://archive.org/details/biographicalske06dextgoog

    Given these details, I would like to request that a moderator forward this information to have Lyman Hall's read-only record corrected, as described here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-are-read-only-records-in-family-tree

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