Brig. General Francis Nash - Other children?

Hi Cynthia
Brig Gen Francis Nash was my 5th Great Uncle.

If you email me at dvblin@hotmail.com, I will reply with some scanned pages about him from documents my mother collected. This includes mention of his wife as Sally Moore, which differs from his Geni profile.

Regards
David Van Buren

David Scott Van Buren it would be wonderful if you could add these to his Geni profile and discuss here the different info you have.
My interest in him is that he is in the tree of a DNA match and I have NASH as my closest cousins with no known common ancestor so I wonder if it is because there is some truth to the story of a son Nash

Cynthia

Re Brig Gen's record: Sally Moore seems to be the maiden name of the same person Geni lists as his wife (Sarah Nash).

As for the child listed as "??? Waddell", I must have added that erroneously myself back in June as my documents mention "Only one child survived who afterwards married ___ Waddell" . This seems to be same person as Sarah Waddell. Do you know how to delete "??? Waddell"

Curiously, you yourself are related to me in 2 ways:
- On my Father's side you are my 16th Cousin Twice Removed
- On my Mother's side (via which Brig Gen Francis Nash was my 5th Great Uncle), you are my fifth great aunt's first cousin 9 times removed.

This suggests if I am related to Brig Gen, and I am also related to you, that you too are related to Brig Gen??

This further does my head in, as it somehow suggests my father and mother (by both being related to you), are also related to each other??? I can send you the paths if you like, or you could maybe generate them yourself.

I don't see in my records, anything about a barmaid Ruth Jackson, but I do have documents about a land deal in 1732 between a Ralph Jackson and Thomas Nash (brother of the Brig General)

Again if you send me your email address, I can send you copies instead of my trying to extrapolate from my info what should get entered into the Geni records. And i'd rather have these musings directly with you than entered into the Geni documentation for other eyes.

David Scott Van Buren you can merge the two into one or if you are the only manager, you can delete the extra one

There are many articles and videos available that can explain marrying patterns and close communities intermarrying within community....
Pedigree collapse and endogamy do not have anything to do with incest but people get a little freaked out by the idea that their parents may be related and yet it is more common than not that fourth to seventh cousins married for most of even this modern era

Probably WHY there is so much competition for the "new girl" or "new boy" at school lol
And many a war was fought over the ability to marry