Thomas Wiseman UNPROVEN!
Descendants of Isaac Wiseman, Sr.,
I wish to remind you what Robert (Bob) D. Wiseman, Historian of the Wiseman Family has said many times about Thomas Wiseman and Elizabeth Unknown, and others that are unproven.
If you have Thomas and Elizabeth in your database and have proof of what you are saying, please show us this proof. It is very important to all of us descendants. Aren't we all doing genealogy to "find" our ancestor's, not to make them up?
The following was written by Robert Wiseman, Please read.
Without documented proof it is difficult for me to accept that many of our family historians have accepted as fact, that Thomas Wiseman is the father of Isaac Wiseman, Sr. and that Thomas is the husband of one Elizabeth (Quadling) Wiseman and that they came to America from (Wales?) through Norwich, County Norfolk, England.So many have written this into their family history with not one inkling of proof!
As a "Compiler" of these reports by family genealogists, I record their findings, but with notation that, "there is no proof!" Then the next time I see my conclusions to these genealogists, they drop the notation and make it fact.(Do you suppose they would believe me if I told them we were from China?)
In my own family research, I always record unproven, or unknown statements with a question mark.[? = unproven; (?) = unknown].But then when I find the copied work placed by a fellow researcher in the LDS files, or elsewhere, the question marks are forgotten - - - removed!For example, it is unproven that the maiden name of Mary, wife of Isaac Wiseman, Sr., is Marshall?Marshall is hearsay, and has never been proven, or cited with documentation.It is also unproven that Abraham Wiseman, who married Susannah Heydt (Hite), is the brother of our Isaac Wiseman, Sr., or that he is the s/o Thomas Wiseman of Germantown. - - - R.D.W.
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