Person talk:Thomas Petty (3)

AFN is for wrong person [1 December 2010]

I removed AFN 207W-CD because it is for the wrong Thomas Petty. It shows parents Thomas Petty and Rachel Wilson and death in 1688. The latter fact is inconsistent with marriage by 1700 and will dated 1748/49 and evidence against this parentage assertion has been added to this page. --Jrich 11:35, 1 December 2010 (EST)

Will: missing son? [19 April 2011]

My notes contain abstracts of the will of Thomas Petty from three different sources, though I have never seen the entire will. Nor can I guarantee that my three abstracts ([1], Source:Petty Papers : A Genealogical Research Quarterly Newsletter (J.W. Petty) Vol. 1 No. 2 p. 23, and Source:Prehn, Alyene Elizabeth Westall. Journal of a Genealogist, with Ancestral Wills) are independent. But all three mention the son Christopher, after Thomas and before William, and the will given on this page does not. Did a clause get skipped in the transcript here? --Jrich 17:53, 18 April 2011 (EDT)

You are correct, I must have missed a line in Dorman's abstract. I've corrected it adding son Christopher and put them in the correct order. Best regards,

Jim:)

I'm having a senior moment [1 August 2013]

I've been tracing our Pettey Line up to Hubert, but I can't tell if I'm looking at my own page or someone else's. I have Thomas, son of Hubert married to Catherine Garton, not Elizabeth Moore. I've seen that in LDS records but I believe it's incorrect. What do I do now?--Ragtimelil 17:41, 28 July 2013 (EDT)

I am not sure what you are asking. Are you saying you think the page is wrong and how to change it? The answer is to provide evidence supporting your case that is of a higher quality. This particular page is watched by some active users, so it might be best to run through your evidence first here on the talk page and try to build a consensus, since I personally believe the evidence presented on the page already is going to be hard to refute. It appears mostly based on primary sources (wills, deeds, other first-hand documents), so it would not appear easy to have much better evidence saying something different.

Probably semantics, but there is no "my own page or someone else's". All pages belong to the community and represent a joint effort to find the correct information. --Jrich 19:28, 28 July 2013 (EDT)

There seem to be two pages for Thomas Petty. I think they need to be combined somehow. (by my page, I meant one that I created. I didn't want to change it if someone else created it. Not sure how things work)--Ragtimelil 18:28, 29 July 2013 (EDT)

Still confused. I looked through your contributions. It does not appear that you "created" any Thomas Petty, merely edited existing pages, namely the father who married Catherine Garton, and the son who married Elizabeth Moore?? If you are talking about a different page, please identify it. There should not be duplicates so if there are two pages describing a single person, they should be merged. --Jrich 20:40, 29 July 2013 (EDT)

I'm the one who is confused. I finally figured out that there are, in fact, two Thomases. I'll be quiet now....--Ragtimelil 15:09, 1 August 2013 (EDT)