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I would like to throw my two-cents into this discussion. Back in the 1980s I was corresponding with someone (whose name I will not use) who was "writing a book" about the Wolfe family. So much of the information she sent me had people with double names that just did not make sense to me based on the actually records I saw. Then I noticed that her "George Washington Wolfe" and "Thomas Jefferson Wolfe" and "Martin Van Buren Wolfe", etc. were all born prior to any of these presidents even became known. I told her repeatedly that nobody, for example, would have named their son "Martin Van Buren Wolfe" when the future president, Martin Van Buren, was only 22 years old. However, she insisted, and today I see plastered all over the Internet all these early Wolfes with these double names. First, double name were not common during this period and did not come into fashion until the mid-19th century. Second, I am very familiar with German naming conventions, and these Wolfe double names I see do not follow them. To be frank, I don't trust any of it.
Some serious Wolfe researcher (maybe you Danny) needs to not even look at Internet family trees and start over based strictly on what the original records say.
Sorry to sound like a crumudgeon, but we've created a monster with these Internet family trees. Anybody can post anything and "non-reseachers" will just copy it over and over until it becomes a fact!
Ron Miller
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