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This project is my own personal notebook. This project is to fix wrong Genealogy, provide sources and breakdown brickwalls. If you find we're related and can help out,by all means you're welcome to help. Feel free to contact me anytime.

Updated Brickwalls:

Work-in-progress:

(Aunts line)

My Discussions,check tab on profile,
wrong Genealogy and dead ends, and fixed lines:

(Not a Grandparent)

(Not a Grandparent)

(Not a Grandparent)

(Not a Grandparent)

(Not a Grandparent)

(Fixed line)

(Fixed line)

(Fixed line)

Dead Ends or Brickwalls:

Expand lines and investigate:

Starting point issue:

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Captain John William Montgomerie

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LY8M-YXJ

Clan Henderson

Clan Henderson

Findley, Pickens,Minnis

Pace family clean-up:

https://www.geni.com/discussions/185827?msg=1710835

Horn family clean-up:

Notes:

Dna matches 5th-8th cousin range;

Spellings: Horn,Van Horne,Van Horn or Horne.

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/horn/about/results

Horn family;

https://www.geni.com/discussions/281387?msg=1711961

Arrived at the Cape Dutch Company,in 1736 as a soldier for the Dutch East India Company.

Jewish Horns,connected to South Africa and Germany.

https://www.geni.com/surnames/horn

More Hoax Ancestry. 1st cousin, investigate. Probably false.

Benjamin Springer

Ancestry match to them Montier, but how?

Interesting note. Pickens lines issue with 

" Grandparents " and Pickens family gave photo of Hiram Montier. According to family book, unknown parents for my line. Both John's attached to Irish lines.

Notes: Fake or true line...,one line of Morray for me connected to Findley line,known fraud.

John Pickens

On loan from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Pickens, III

Hiram Charles Montier

https://philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/the-montiers-of-philade...

Two different Kennedys. Most likely African enslaved in Ireland. Kidnapped and sent to Maryland. Story attached on profile.  Information conflicts for John Kennedy."Grandfather line" 

Dr. John Kennedy, Sr

Another kidnapped story. "Grandfather ". Part of Springer Hoax. Suspected part African Ancestry in both lines,leads to known African lines in Morgan amd Murray Ancestry. Family cover-up?

Project, known profiles showing as second cousins so many times removed, missing lines.

"Grandfather "

Charles Christopherson Springer

https://www.geni.com/projects/New-Amsterdam-Origins-African-Immigrants/6794

Morgan/Bryan false Ancestry, cleanups last year. Not any of them Grandparent lines,though listed on FamilySearch. But Morgan Bryan is Aunts husband's line.

Morgan Bryan

William Smith Bryan, I

Catherine Bryan

William Smith Bryan

Morgan/Murray/ Cromwell

Something is off on "Grandparent" line.

"Grandmother" Parents seen as Surname "Hanna" and Admirl Sir Henry Morgan. Will states no known children for Henry Morgan. Line has evidence for Jemima-Cromwell but there seems to be two of them.

Jemima Cromwell

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morgan-454

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hanna-589

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Mary Elenor Hanna

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GZHZ-B54

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Captain Thomas Morgan

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/G6FJ-9L2

Capt. Thomas Morgan

Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, Privateer

"Grandparent line".

John Hannah

Iowa "Van Horn" Dna matches through Father's side. Uncle Wyckoff marriage. On mother's side,sixth cousin. Dna match range 5th to 8th. Lines added today to connect Iowa brach,fill out.

Category: Gustave Anjou Fraud

  • Need to collect list of all lines affected, too many to list.

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/general/topics/gen/37674/

https://www.geni.com/path/Annber-Collins+is+related+to+James-Van-Horn?from=6000000124260550873&path_type=inlaw&to=6000000207561784825

https://www.geni.com/path/Annber-Collins+is+related+to+James-Van-Horn?from=6000000124260550873&path_type=blood&to=6000000207561784825

Known fraud for me. Horn Papers, Gustav Anjou, Charles Henry Browning, Springer

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Fraudulent_Genealogies

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Charles_Henry_Browning_Fraud

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Frauds_and_Fabrications

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/general/topics/gen/37674/

https://cyndislist.com/myths/fakes/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Genealogical_fraud

https://www.geni.com/projects/Spurious-Pedigrees/10512

Dad and Mom's Ancestry. Skinner fixed at 6th generation, two different Samuel's.

Thomas Profile merge and correct.

Thomas Skinner

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Thomas Skinner

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LHLH-GJR

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Samuel Alexander Skinner

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GFP4-7JJ

Samuel Skinner I

Fix or Fixed Skinner line,see discussions.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066302175&seq=1

https://www.geni.com/discussions/278407

https://www.geni.com/discussions/278408

https://www.geni.com/discussions/277971

Discussion on profile.

Samuel Skinner, Jr.

Fraud lines:

More of Pandoras box to investigate open one line a bomb goes off in another... More Wyckoff, lies and fraud Ancestry?!

Supposed Richard Pittenger line:

Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen 1597-1674
11th great-grandfather
Gerbrant / Gerbrand yes Claesen / Clausen Capt? 1649-1704
Son of Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen
Pieter Gerbrantse 1675-1712
Son of Gerbrant / Gerbrand yes Claesen / Clausen Capt?
Thomas Jurianse Pieterse (Peterson) 1706-1774
Son of Pieter Gerbrantse
PIETER LAMBERTS PETERSON 1733-1782
Son of Thomas Jurianse Pieterse (Peterson)
Thomas Peterson 1756-1835
Son of PIETER LAMBERTS PETERSON
Catherine Pittenger Peterson 1787-1858
Daughter of Thomas Peterson
Peter Pittenger 1815-1887
Son of Catherine Pittenger Peterson
Harriett Pittenger 1852-
Daughter of Peter Pittenger

https://archive.org/details/oldworldprogenit00unse

Nothing to these lines on Geni but to Pieter, known fraud.

Capt. Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen

Claes Corneliszen van Schouwen

Showing as a 10th Grandparent.
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff

More mess to sort out...

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Pieter Claeszen

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9312-XFX

Sources:

African lines:

Samuel Williams