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Spider Jerusalem

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8. To be fair, the errors were quickly corrected in the database after the corrections were submitted
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 10:37 AM
Dec 2013

(which I did for all of the erroneous information on my own lines that I've found so far); the fact that I found erroneous info for multiple colonial-era ancestors though makes me question the data overall; it looks like most of it is just sourced from other pedigrees or from the LDS database without any kind of source checking or verification. For instance: they show Daniel Boone as a descendant of Edward III of England through his mother; this has been disproved (see here); John Whitney, John Davenport, and John Prescott, Massachusetts colonists, as having royal descents (they don't, see here); Edward Dorsey (or Darcy), emigrant to Maryland, as a descendant of the Anglo-Norman gentry D'Arcy family (he's not; that's been conclusively disproven by DNA testing).

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