Parents of George A. Chrisman 1765 - 1850
Family Search lists George A. Chrisman's parents as Michael Christmann 1726 - 1780 & Elizabeth Seitz 1741 - 1784.
Ancestry's eight out of nine listed "contributors" note his parents were Jacob A. Chrismon 1706 - 1778 & Magdalena Heydt (Hite). The ninth lists Michael & Elizabeth.
George A. Chrismon's son, Charles Crismon 1807 - 1890, was very prominent in establishing the Mormon community in SLC, San Bernardino and Mesa, AZ.
I would appreciate if you would cross check your records to verify the correctness of George A. Chrisman's parents.
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I am F. Scott Hindes (hindes57@me.com) and the great great-grandson of George A. Chrisman 1765 - 1850
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Hello Scott,
We found George A Chrisman, LCCG-JRS, has parent listed as Michael Chrisman. He has one source dated 1791, called Transcription of the deed showing George Christman of Mecklenberg Co., NC was the son of Michael Christman, Sr. O Mecklenburg Co., NC. (You likely know this already.)
We also found John George Chrisman II, LH56-R5Z, who is the child of Jacob Andrew Chrisman Sr, and Magdalena Hite. Plus another set of parents. This George also has a son named Charles, but the dates seem to be off.
You may want to see if you can find something by searching for his name, under Search, Records.
We wonder if the Historical Society in North Carolina might be able to help you, if they have information that far back.
You might also want to contact the Family History Library, and schedule a 20 minute consultation, to see if they have suggestions.
Use the link below:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Virtual_Genealogy_Consultations
Good luck.
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Another note in addition to the ones posted. Here is an article that can be found in the Help Center that explains when you see Family search as the contributor. Family Search is not the actual contributor.
It is generally information brought over from another system (such as new.familysearch.org) - due to programming it shows as Family Search as the contributor because to show each individual name while converting to a new or newer system can be very complex
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Scott,
Here is some additional information that might help you find answers. If you go to the Latest Changes for George A. Chrisman, you will see that the parents you think are his were added to him on June 13, 2012 by FamilySearch, so someone else before 2012 also thought they are his parents. Caryl explained to you why it shows FamilySearch added the information.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/changelog/LCCG-JRS
And since they are not his parents on his page now, it means someone removed them. You could look through the rest of the changes coming forward and find who removed them, and then send them a message asking if they have some information that led them to believe they were not the parents. If they are his parents, and all of the birth dates are correct, his mother would have been 52 and there would have been many years between George A. and their last child showing now.
Going through the Latest Changes can often help us unravel problems like this. This article has some good information about that.
We also wanted to mention that the fact that 8 say the parents are Jacob A. Chrismon 1706 - 1778 & Magdalena Heydt (Hite) can seem like very compelling evidence, and if those trees are well-sourced it would be. But there is always a possibility that 7 people copied the wrong tree of one person and then all posted them as their tree. Other people’s trees are great for clues, but those clues should always be verified with actual historical record sources. Additional research, as suggested by others, would be the way to go, and then if you need to change his parents in the tree, you can do that.
We hope you are able to find at least one good source.
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