John Alden's parents

That should read [[6000000003132905025][ and Jane Alden.

One more try :-/

George Alden

Thanks Noah.

To anyone with an interest in this tree:

The reason I requested the removal of parentage links to John Alden is due to the multiplicity of theories and utter lack of evidence to support any of the theories.

From the About Me box on John Alden's profile here:

"PLEASE NOTE: Efforts to locate his birthplace and parentage have so far been inconclusive. Although he joined the Mayflower at Southampton, co. Hampshire, England, no records have been found of John in Southampton, and he was not necessarily a native of that place. HIS PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN.
FOR A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY, PLEASE VISIT http://www.alden.org/our_family/aldenbiography.htm "

For the purposes of keeping my sanity... and keeping a clean tree... I am systematically removing all parentage links to John Alden as the profiles get merged.

This is also done to keep people from complaining about us supporting one theory over another.

The opinion of the legitimate sources of Alden genealogy... is that these theories are without merit (a polite way of calling bullshit).

Jason P Herbert

Good approach.

There are many, many examples like this in the Big Tree. I hope we don't need to start a public discussion for every one of them.

Orlando Bagley, I

The French Canadian branch is a mess.. I am trying to correct it but its an uphill battle. I wish people would not assume that because the last name is the same, they are related!

"I hope we don't need to start a public discussion for every one of them."

Perhaps we can develop a "standard protocol" and methodology to indicate "parents are unknown, various theories proposed, non proven?"

Such as:

"John Alden's Unknown Father" ?