Person talk:Benoni Gardiner (1)

Duplicate parents [31 August 2010]

I merged two Benoni Gardiner/Gardner records which were clearly for the same person, based on dates and a shared child record. However, he now has 2 sets of parents, and I have no way of determining which (if either) is correct. For someone else to fix, if the info is known. --DataAnalyst 23:31, 29 August 2010 (EDT)

Thank you for this merger. I have eliminated one set of parents based on an article in The American Genealogist, Vol. XXI, by G. Andrews Moriarty.--Bill Wright 11:28, 30 August 2010 (EDT)

I think this record and his father's have been straightened out now. The error seems to have been in his father George's record, which identified him as George Gardiner, baptized 1599/1600, based on an article published in 1937. An article published in 1944 (TAG) argued that Benoni's father George was likely born about 1608 to 1615, and thus was very unlikely to be the George Gardiner baptized in Great Greenford, in 1599/1600.

So we now have one Benoni record (instead of two, one showing him to be son of Sarah Slaughter, which he was not) and two George records (instead of one and a stub in the marriage to Sarah Slaughter). I may continue to update these records to incorporate all the information in the TAG article. --DataAnalyst 21:20, 30 August 2010 (EDT)

Thank you for doing this. I don't upload my genealogical data to any of the internet sites except werelate. There is too much garbage on the other sites including familysearch. I don't do that much on werelate since I consider it still "on probation." I was a little lost yesterday with the new format.

The George and Sarah (Slaughter) Gardiner parentage published by Miller and Stanton seems to have been based on anecdotal stories passed down by the Gardiners for 200 years. That seems to be weak support in light of the Moriarty article. Still many people bought into it. Dr. Beaman was one when he published it in the Rhode Island Genealogical Register several years ago. I wrote him and asked him about it and in typical Beaman fashion never received a reply. I was a faithful subscriber and have a complete set of both his red and blue books.

TAG is not an unknown journal, but articles correcting inaccurate genealogies do tend to be ignored.--Bill Wright 08:24, 31 August 2010 (EDT)