Researcher Beware - Sometimes the AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Wrong
I receive very few NEW AncestryDNA thruLines these days - occasionally one a week. But I check each one out. I now have about 430 of them.
1) I received a new one last week, with the common ancestors of my so-called Potential Ancestors 5th great-grandparents Johannes Rowe and Catherine Loescher. The Rau/Rowe and Loescher families of New York were Palatines from Germany and the families are in the Henry Z. Jones
My genealogical research has found no evidence that they are the parents of my 4th great-grandfather, Philip Rowe (1752-1817) of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, but many online family trees at Ancestry.com and other sites show Philip Jacob Row as the son of Johannes and Catherine (Loescher) Rowe (or Row or Rau or Rauh) of Dutchess County, New York.
1) I have defined these best practices for my RootsMagic genealogy database: Add persons, relationships and facts to my database based on records, not assertions in other family trees Investigate record Hints and record Matches from record providers to use, if pertinent, to add content to the tree Search for records for my Tree persons in record repositories and in online record providers and use if pertinent Use other family trees and other research (e.g., books, periodicals, manuscripts, indexes, etc.) as clues for further research and add if pertinent Support Facts/assertions for my Tree persons with
Evidence Explained quality source citations (I tend to use Free form source citations rather than EE-style source templates so that the source citation transfers well in a GEDCOM export).
Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 10 December 2020).
This obituary provides the name, age, implied death date and place, a burial place, and the names of three married sisters. It does not provide a birth date, an occupation, work history, community activities, a spouse or children names.
Theron James Seaver (1887-1945) was born 12 April 1887 in Franklin county, New York, the son of William Eugene and Ella Sophia (Webb) Seaver. He had four sisters - Erma G. (Seaver) Cashman (11878-1926); Lola B. (Seaver) Reiger (1880-1958); Huldah J. (Seaver) Johnson (1894-1979); and Henrietta Ida (Seaver) Gibbs (1897-1983).
Theron Seaver married (1) Florence E. Baer (1889-????) in Waterbury in 1907, and (2) Mae A. ? (1896-????) before 1920. There are no known children by either marriage. A 1907 marriage announcement in the Waterbury newspaper in Waterbury, Conn. is the only record that provides Florence s name. The 1920 census is the only one that mentions M