Re: The "GENEALOGY" of ERROR-Follow-up
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The "GENEALOGY" of ERROR
9/14/00
9-14-00
In the same book in which the former articlewas included, was a second article, with less speculation.Two items are significant enough to comment upon:
Second Article--Fulton Co, KY
Three of Georg's grandsons and their families left Berks County, Pennsylvania, and settled in central Kentucky. The brothers were Jacob, George and Henry Polsgrove. [NOTE:As I pointed out in the previous article, three small boys did not go pioneering into Kentucky in the 1790's.The true story is very different and fully documented elsewhere.The problem is that it appears to newcomers that these boys were men when the migration took place, when, in fact, two had not even been born yet in 1784.Secondly, that they came from Berks Co., PA, may or may not have been true.All I know of their father, Jacob-2, is that he never lived anywhere except in Montgomery Co.But this statement was based on the NOTION that George-2 was their father.Thus preventing researchers from looking anywhere else except in Berks Co., for their records.But such records didn't exist there for Jacob and George.]
Henry died in 1842, at the age of 58, leaving a wife, 14 children, .....
[NOTE:Another statement from the Kentucky side of the river where Harrison lived which by the numbers excludes him from being a son of Henry.Henry had 14 children, listed elsewhere on this forum and documented. No-one argues about these 14.Harrison would be a 15th, and his descendants as well as the Kentucky cousins do not include him as a son of Henry.]
My sole objective is to get the Kentucky Polsgrove family to focus on Jacob-2 as our pioneer ancestor, to research whatever remaining documentation as may be available on him and his children, and give up the ill-conceived effort to try to replace him with his brother George-2.
Continued efforts to hybridize our ancestors with the wrong persons will fail anyway now that George-2's descendants are involved, but the more fiction anyone puts out there the more you cripple Jacob's descendants' efforts to join history and genealogy societies which, believe this, scrutinize your data much more closely than you think.
John Bristol
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