I have been deeply frustrated for many years at the inconsistencies between the old Gresham books in print, the blatant errors in many of them and then the total collapse of any sourced trees on Ancestry over the past 10 years.
When I joined WIKI Tree, it felt like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders to be able to tell what was sourced or not, have the sources available for review with links or descriptions of where to look, to collaborate with other researchers with the intent of clearing out the old family legends floating around online.
I really don't know why there are so many embellished biographies that were done by old genealogists or family researchers, but it is really sad. Seems like snagging a link to anything of royal descent was thought to be the thing to do.
I do not place any faith whatsoever in any other trees online other than my own. I won't even look at them anymore, because I have already done that, sent so many emails to try to get errors corrected without success that it has worn me out.
I am currently involved in trying to match paper trails to the Big Y DNA results on FTDNA. We have a wonderful phylogenetic tree that groups descending lines and from this, we can gradually begin to see where the old paper trails were wrong and get them corrected.
We still need any Gresham male descendant to test their YDNA at FTDNA and then upgrade to the Big Y. 700 Gresham/Grisham/Grissom Surname Project. It would be a gift to the future generations.
Since the King and Queen County Courthouse was burned, only fragments of reconstructed records remain. Unraveling the lines of descent from Edward Gresham Immigrant to his 4 sons, to his grandsons is the "black hole" of Gresham genealogy. and DNA is so very important there. Autosomal is not good for this type of research.
For any serious Gresham Researchers, we still have a Gresham site at Family4.org with many old documents in the files. Some of those theories by Milt Gresham have been revised in 2016 but he and Carlton Wood did so much microfilm research and court abstracts that we will always be indebted to them. I have uploaded many of them to our Gresham Family Group on FB but not all of them.
You are welcome to join our two groups. Gresham Family Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/217628838568326/permalink/169832618... or Gresham DNA Connections https://www.facebook.com/groups/315976627141927
We have also created an ancestor project at GedMatch.com for Gresham/Grisham/Grissom/Hewitt if you want to look for it.
Mary
