For years I operated on the belief that the maiden name of an ancestor was Dunaway. I had never seen it written on an actual record. The first reference to the name I remember seeing was on a family group chart someone compiled years ago with no indication of a source listed. I obtained the chart very early in my research long before I knew the importance of source citing and evidence analysis. The name had simply been copied and copied over and over as the maiden name for my 4th great-grandmother. That meant it had to be correct, didn’t it? That repetition had to mean something. It does mean something. It means it has been repeated. The first time I saw it written down on an actual […]
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