Where an external record contradicts what the family report recorded. The most important things to reconcile.
Mary Catherine Dafoe b. 1932 spouse's prior children (not in report or known facts)
Report Not mentioned.
Records The genealogy lists an additional child of Donald Howard Paulson, 'John Clifford Paulson', by a different partner 'Mary Helen Chick' (i.e., a relationship/marriage prior to Mary Catherine Dafoe). This child is NOT a child of Mary Catherine Dafoe.
Surfaced during direct verification of page p2201 and not previously flagged in the dossier. Does not affect Mary Catherine Dafoe's identity or her own children, but is relevant context: Donald Howard Paulson had a prior partner (Mary Helen Chick) and a son John Clifford Paulson outside this marriage.
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Donald Howard Paulson 1924–1983 source verifiability (all findings)
Report The New England Ball Project person page independently corroborates birth, death, burial, parents, and military service.
Records The cited domain newenglandballproject.com does not resolve: DNS lookups return SERVFAIL from three independent resolvers (local 10.1.1.1, Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Google 8.8.8.8), while control domains (e.g. findagrave.com) resolve normally. The page is unretrievable, so it provides no verifiable corroboration for any finding. Every finding in the dossier cited this single URL.
This is the central audit finding. The original dossier's repeated 'independent source corroborates' notes are not supportable because the source cannot be accessed by anyone. All 'confirmed' grades that rested on this corroboration were lowered; new-information claims that had no other support were dropped to 'unconfirmed'.
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Iver Paulsen 1853–1931 mother's name
Report Embjor Iversdater (1828-1905)
Records Ingeborg Paulson (1828-1905)
Same person, NOT a true conflict. The family's own primary research records the mother as 'Iversdater, Embjor' (b. 1828-07-01, d. 1905) with 'Other names used: Paulson, Ingeborg; Haverstad, Ingeborg'. FindAGrave records her married surname (Paulson) and the Ingeborg form. Identical birth/death years (1828-1905) and the same father (Paul Olsen) confirm the identity.
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Clifford Raeburn Paulson b. 1922 death.date
Report No death recorded in the known facts (death: null)
Records 30 August 2014 per FindAGrave columbarium record (trusted). An alternate date of 1 May 2014 'at Hagerstown, MD' attributed to the New England Ball Project genealogy site is NOT trusted.
The FindAGrave columbarium interment record (30 Aug 2014) is a primary cemetery source and is corroborated by the shared plot with his documented spouse Netta. The competing 1 May 2014 date traces solely to the New England Ball Project page, which did not resolve when fetched (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED), so that source could not be verified and its date is discounted. Both sources agree on the year 2014.
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Ruth Eleanor Bills b. 1908 death
Report null (no death recorded in the 2006 family report)
Records Died 30 January 1940 in Weiser, Washington County, Idaho; buried Antioch Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa
Not a contradiction but a substantive addition: the report left death blank; FindAGrave provides a full death date, death place, and burial place. Verified on the live memorial during this audit. Death year is independently corroborated by her father's memorial.
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Dilman French Bills b. 1900 birth.place
Report null (not recorded in the report)
Records Springville, Linn County, Iowa, USA
Not a conflict; the verified FindAGrave memorial supplies a birthplace the report left blank.
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Dilman French Bills b. 1900 death / burial / spouses / children
Report death: null; burial: null; spouses: []; children: []
Records death 21 Nov 1956 (Genesee County, MI); burial Flint Memorial Park (Mount Morris, MI); spouse Lyda Ann Cool (m. 1922); 8 children
Not conflicts; these fields were empty in the 2006 report and are filled in by the verified memorial (death/burial/spouse anchored by exact birth date plus both parents; spouse and one child also corroborated by an obituary snippet).
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Claude Zene Paulson b. 1899 birth.place
Report null (not recorded in anchor)
Records City Point, Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA
Addition, not a conflict: the anchor left birthplace blank; FindAGrave supplies City Point, Jackson County, WI, which is consistent with the family's documented City Point residence in the 2006 report.
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Claude Zene Paulson b. 1899 mother.birth
Report Maude Irene Wright (1869); local 2006 report file gives 1869-01-06
Records Maude Irene Wright Paulson 1869-1935 (FindAGrave, year only)
Consistent: the 1869 birth year and 1935 death year for the mother agree across the anchor, the local report, and FindAGrave.
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Louis L. Wright b. 1880 name
Report Louis L. Wright
Records Louis Lester Wright
Not a true conflict - the report's middle initial 'L.' is expanded to the full middle name 'Lester' by the FamilySearch record. Verified on the live page 2026-06-16.
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James Myron French b. 1865 death
Report none recorded
Records died March 1948, buried Wyoming, Jones County, Iowa
The 2006 report left death blank; FamilySearch (citing Iowa death records, verified against the re-fetched profile) adds a March 1948 death and Wyoming, Iowa burial.
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Berte Paulsdater b. 1865 surname spelling
Report Paulsdater
Records Recorded as 'Poulsdatter' in 1875 (father spelled 'Poul Olsen'). Standard modern form 'Paulsdatter'.
Not a true conflict — patronymic spelling drift Poul/Paul -> Poulsdatter/Paulsdatter is expected in 19th-century Norwegian records.
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Mary Joanna French b. 1859 surname spelling (mother)
Report Beever
Records Spelled 'Beaver' in the 1879 History of Jones County biographical sketch ('married his present wife, Gracie C. Beaver'); rendered 'Beever' in the FindAGrave family-member listing. Both verified first-hand on the same memorial.
Surname drifts Beever/Beaver across the two parts of the same source; both refer to the same person (Grace Catherine), the known mother.
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Frank E Bills b. 1857 name (father)
Report Dan Buell Bills (1830-1914)
Records Daniel Buell Bills (1830-1914)
Minor name-form difference only ('Dan' vs full 'Daniel'); dates match exactly. Not a substantive discrepancy.
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Frank E Bills b. 1857 birth date
Report 1857-12-02
Records Dec 1857 (no day specified)
FindAGrave gives only month and year; it does not contradict the report's specific day of 2 December 1857. The report remains the source for the exact day.
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Angeline French b. 1853 residence
Report Dossier marriage finding stated Angeline 'married Andrew Gracey and lived in Clay Township, Jones County, Iowa.'
Records Her obituary states the couple married at Scotch Grove (Jones County) and then 'moved to Clay County, ... spending the remainder of their lives in and near Peterson' (Clay County, not Clay Township of Jones County).
'Clay Township, Jones County' came from her father Joseph French's biography, not from Angeline's own residence; corrected. The coincidental overlap of the word 'Clay' (Clay Township in Jones County vs. Clay County) likely caused the conflation.
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Mary Jane Nott 1848–1927 birth.place
Report White Pidgeon, Michigan
Records White Pigeon Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan
Same place; the report simply misspells 'Pigeon' as 'Pidgeon' and omits the county (St. Joseph). Not a substantive discrepancy.
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Isaac Newton French b. 1840 birth.place
Report null (no birthplace given)
Records Licking County, Ohio, USA
Not a conflict; the record fills in the birthplace the report left blank.
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Isaac Newton French b. 1840 death/burial/spouses/children
Report null / empty in the 2006 report
Records Death 16 Sep 1912 Onslow, Jones County, Iowa; buried Clay Cemetery (Row 5); spouse Jane Kirkpatrick Orr (1857-1903); at least 9 children
New information added beyond the report; no contradiction.
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Zenas Hovey Wright 1838–1926 burial place
Report in the family plot in Garden Valley
Records Mentor Cemetery, Humbird, Clark County, Wisconsin
Not a true conflict: 'Garden Valley' is the community; the burial ground of record per Find a Grave is Mentor Cemetery at Humbird, Clark County. The dossier's earlier assertions that this cemetery 'straddles the Jackson/Clark county line' and 'serves the Garden Valley area' were unsourced and have been removed; only the sourced burial location (Mentor Cemetery, Humbird) is retained.
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Eliza Ann French b. 1836 status
Report nothing-found (no record located on two or more independent anchors)
Records researched — FamilySearch genealogies returns Eliza Ann French b. 1 June 1836 to John French & Sarah Clark across multiple independent submissions, a two-anchor identity match the prior dossier missed.
The prior search apparently did not query the FamilySearch genealogies (IGI / Pedigree Resource File) index constrained by both parents. That query surfaces an exact birth-date-plus-both-parents match.
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Marit Iversdater b. 1836 father birth year
Report Iver Olsen (1801)
Records 1865 census (verified) records Iver Olsen at age 64 = b. 1801 (calculated), Sondre Fron - this AGREES with the report's 1801. A b. c.1802 value may appear in the 1875 census.
On the verified 1865 record the father's calculated birth year is 1801, matching the report exactly. Any c.1802 reading elsewhere reflects normal census age-rounding (one-year variance). Not a true conflict; the prior framing of this as a 1802-vs-1801 discrepancy was overstated.
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Marit Iversdater b. 1836 name spelling
Report Marit Iversdater / father patronymic-form 'Iversdater'
Records Standard Norwegian forms in the records are 'Iversdatter' (daughter) and mother spelled 'Knudsdatter'/'Knutsdatter'; the baptism lists only the given name 'Marit' with father Iver Olsen
The report's single-t 'Iversdater'/'Knutsdater' are anglicized/variant spellings of standard 'Iversdatter'/'Knutsdatter'. No substantive discrepancy.
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Emily Eunice Ball b. 1833 spouses
Report empty (no spouse listed in trusted anchor)
Records George Kirkland (1829-1893)
The anchor left spouses blank; research adds her husband George Kirkland, confirmed by the FindAGrave memorial (spouse field) and corroborated by the Ball Project and Wikipedia. An addition, not a contradiction. The specific marriage year (c.1855) and place (Versailles) are NOT confirmed and rest on a single un-fetched source.
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Emily Eunice Ball b. 1833 children
Report empty (no children listed in trusted anchor)
Records Emma Valnette Kirkland Ackley (1855-1906) and Leigh George Kirkland (1873-1942)
The anchor listed no children; the FindAGrave memorial (verified directly) names two: Emma Valnette Kirkland Ackley (1855-1906) and Leigh George Kirkland (1873-1942). Leigh is additionally corroborated by Wikipedia. The original dossier identified only Leigh and missed Emma. Further children remain possible but are not currently documented.
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Alvin Billings Ball b. 1832 burial place wording
Report Balltown Cemetery, Hanover, NY (per New England Ball Project)
Records Balltown Cemetery, Balltown, Chautauqua County, New York (per Find a Grave, verified live)
Not a true discrepancy: Balltown is a hamlet within the town of Hanover in Chautauqua County, NY. The two descriptions refer to the same cemetery.
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Alvin Billings Ball b. 1832 father death year
Report Stephen Munn Ball (1804) — death year not given in report
Records Stephen Munn Ball 1804–1892 (Find a Grave, verified live)
Find a Grave adds a death year of 1892 for the father; this supplements rather than contradicts the report.
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Dan Buell Bills 1830–1914 birth.date
Report 1830-02-13
Records 1830-02-18
Find a Grave (verified directly) gives 18 Feb 1830; the 2006 report gives 13 Feb 1830. Same month and year; day differs by five. Neither is sourced to a primary birth record. Does not affect identity.
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Dan Buell Bills 1830–1914 death.date
Report 1914-07-28
Records 1914-07-31
Find a Grave (verified directly) gives 31 Jul 1914; the report gives 28 Jul 1914. Same month and year; day differs by three. Does not affect identity.
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Abigail Finch b. 1823 birth.date
Report 1823-11-15
Records The authoritative Church Historian's Press biographical entry states '14 November 1822' (verified by direct fetch on 2026-06-16) — a DIFFERENT day and year than the report. The '15 November 1823, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia' date appears only in the Lorrie J. personal blog and tree compilations.
MATERIAL CORRECTION to the original dossier, which wrongly claimed the CHP source confirmed '15 November 1823' as an exact match and dismissed '14 November 1822' as a mere rendering variant. Direct fetch confirms the CHP page header and biographical line both read '14 November 1822—4 December 1892'. The report's 1823-11-15 and the CHP's 1822-11-14 are competing, unreconciled values; this discrepancy is real and should be resolved with primary Nova Scotia records before relying on either date. Identity is still supported by the matching parents and Nova Scotia origin plus the agreeing death date/place.
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Joseph French 1823–1900 death.place
Report Wyoming, Iowa
Records Find a Grave: died Wyoming Township, Jones County, Iowa; buried Wyoming Cemetery, Wyoming, Jones County, Iowa
Consistent; FindAGrave adds the township and county detail to the report's bare 'Wyoming, Iowa'.
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Aaron French b. 1819 death place vs burial place
Report report has no death/burial data
Records Death is recorded at Peterson, Clay County, Iowa, while burial is in Clay Cemetery, Onslow, Jones County, Iowa - two different Iowa counties. Both facts appear on the SAME Find a Grave memorial (22604197), so this is not a cross-source conflict or a wrong-person signal: Aaron farmed/died in Clay County (Peterson) but was buried back in the family cemetery at Onslow, Jones County.
Originally flagged as a possible source conflict; the direct fetch shows both places are recorded together on the single memorial, consistent with the family genealogy. No identity problem. Residence-vs-burial split is normal for a person buried in an ancestral family plot.
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Samuel Wright b. 1814 identity (rejected candidate)
Report Samuel Wright, born 1814, son of George Wright (1788-1839) and Phoebe Whitley (1790)
Records FamilySearch person M964-YBP is a FEMALE Wright born about 1814 in Grayson, Virginia, father William Wright (1789-1861), mother Mary Pearse (1789-1827). This is a different person and does NOT match (wrong sex, wrong place, wrong parents).
Rejected as a same-year-different-person false match.
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Samuel Wright b. 1814 father (rejected candidate)
Report George Wright (1788-1839), father Phineas Wright, mother (paternal grandmother) Zilpha Downer
Records WikiTree profile Wright-5727 'George Wright (1788- )' is from Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts with parents Solomon Wright and Eunice Dewey. This is a DIFFERENT George Wright and does not match our George Wright (whose parents per the GenoPro tree were Phineas Wright and Zilpha Downer).
Rejected as a same-name-same-year-different-person false match.
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Adelia Throop b. 1813 identity / same-name different person
Report Adelia Throop, b. 1813, daughter of Thomas Billings Throop and Catherine Walker
Records The only 'Adelia Throop' on FindAGrave (Memorial ID 130048899, died 1866, Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan) is the daughter of Enos Throop (1828-1893) and Emma Melissa Lanphierd (1840-1909), parents married about 1848. She died young (reburied 1869; siblings born 1870s-1880s). This is NOT the report's Adelia and was rejected (wrong parents, wrong generation, no birth date matching 1813).
Recorded only to document the rejected candidate so it is not mistaken for a match in future research.
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Phineas Wright 1812–1874 birth.date
Report 1812
Records 25 October 1811
FindAGrave (verified) and genopro both give 25 Oct 1811; the report's '1812' is off by about two months. Same event, rounded.
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Phineas Wright 1812–1874 spouses
Report (none listed for Rebecca Wagoner)
Records Rebecca Wagoner/Wagner Mash (1823-1908), m. at Voree, Walworth Co., WI (1848 per FindAGrave family list; 5 May 1849 per transcribed Wisconsin Marriages record)
A third spouse not in the report, documented by a transcribed Wisconsin Marriages index entry and the 1850 census, both on the verified FindAGrave memorial. Chronologically the middle wife (between Amanda Finch and Mary Carpenter). Note the unresolved 1848-vs-1849 marriage-year inconsistency within FindAGrave itself.
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Ruth French b. 1810 father.death
Report Aaron Jr. French (1767-1850) [no exact date]
Records Aaron French Jr. d. Jan. 31, 1850 (the 1910 book gives Jan. 31, 1850; an FFA DNA note says 'Jan 1850'); consistent with report year, just more precise.
Not a true conflict; the sources refine the report's '1850' to Jan. 31, 1850. Concerns the father, not the subject.
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Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 birth date / birth place (Madison Historical Society death record)
Report Report and gravestone: born 6 March 1809, Johnstown, Leeds, Ontario, Canada
Records Madison Historical Society death record lists 'Date of Birth: 1798' and 'Birth Place: Toronto, Canada'
The death record's own age field (91 years, 5 months, 19 days at death on 25 Jul 1900) back-calculates to a birth in early 1809, NOT 1798 — so the stated '1798' is an internal inconsistency in that record. The FindAGrave header (verified by browser fetch: 6 Mar 1809, aged 91 at death) and the anchor facts agree. 'Toronto' vs 'Johnstown, Leeds' is a minor place discrepancy; both are in Ontario, and the family is documented in Leeds County. Net: the secondary death record's birth fields are unreliable and do not override the confirmed 1809 date.
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Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 middle name
Report Gile
Records Recorded variously as 'Guyal' (FindAGrave), 'Gil' (Madison Historical Society death record), and 'Gile' (genealogical sources)
These are spelling variants of the same middle name for the same person; not a substantive identity discrepancy. The trusted anchor uses 'Gile'.
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Sarah Clark 1801–1891 burial
Report null
Records Clay Cemetery, Onslow, Jones County, Iowa, USA (Row 1)
New information; fills a gap in the report rather than contradicting it. Supported by the multi-anchor memorial match.
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Ragnhild Knutsdater 1801–1875 birth.place
Report South Hegge farm
Records Hegge farm in Fron (Søndre/Sør-Fron) prestegjeld, Gudbrandsdalen, Oppland. Birthplace consistently recorded as 'Søndre Fron' in the 1865 census.
The report's 'South Hegge farm' is the Hegge farm in Søndre (South) Fron, Gudbrandsdalen — NOT the Hegge in Slidre/Valdres, which surfaced in searches but does not match the family. Verified: the 1801 census places father Knud Olsen ('Gaardbruger'/farmer) with his household at Hegge in Fron, matching the report's note 'her father was a farmer on South Hegge.'
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James Whitley b. 1800 birth.place
Report null (no place given)
Records Elizabeth(town) Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada (Upper Canada)
Not a conflict — the report left birthplace blank; research adds it. Verified on James's WikiTree profile ('Elizabeth Township, Leeds, Ontario') and consistent with the 'Loyalists in Ontario' record placing the family 'of Elizabethtown.'
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Mary Elizabeth Paulson b. 1964 father.birth.date likely
Report Donald Howard Paulson born 14 May 1924 (19240514) per family genealogy; born in Flint, Michigan
Records FindAGrave memorial 74803409 gives birth as 4 May 1924
One-digit day discrepancy (4 vs 14 May); same month and year. Almost certainly a transcription difference on one side. The exact match on death date and burial place makes this the same individual; not a wrong-person flag.
Mary Elizabeth Paulson b. 1964 father.military likely
Report Family genealogy notes: 'He was in the Third Division of the US Marine Corps in World War II.'
Records FindAGrave memorial 74803409 inscription reads '1ST LT US AIR FORCE / WORLD WAR II KOREA'
Genuine source conflict on military branch (Marine Corps per family vs. Air Force per gravestone inscription) and service period (the gravestone adds Korea). Worth resolving before publishing any military-service claim for the father; it does not undermine the identity match. The dossier's claim of 'WWII/Korea Air Force' rests only on the gravestone and conflicts with the family record.
Lawrence Raeburn Paulson b. 1951 source independence high
Report Three findings each presented with their own confidence
Records All three findings cite the same single page (p2201.htm). They are not independent sources, so the 'multiple anchors' that survive (father birth + death) come from one document. Findings about the grandparents/middle-name and the burial were downgraded accordingly.
Only the father's birth-year-and-death-year double match (within that one page, both matching the known father string) was treated as confirmation.
Lawrence Raeburn Paulson b. 1951 mother high
Report Mary Catherine Dafoe (b. 1932) listed as mother in summary
Records No finding confirms the mother against the source; the source corroboration is entirely on the paternal line. The mother remains an unverified known-fact, not independently corroborated.
Lawrence Raeburn Paulson b. 1951 subject record high
Report Dossier titled as a researched record of Lawrence Raeburn Paulson
Records No record specific to Lawrence himself (his own person page, a vital record, birthplace, spouse, or children) was ever read. His individual page on the cited site did not load, and the domain did not resolve when re-checked in this audit (ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED). The dossier corroborates his FAMILY, not him directly.
Mary Catherine Dafoe b. 1932 children likely
Report Seven children listed, including Carol Marie Paulson (1961).
Records The New England Ball Project lists only six children of Donald Howard Paulson and Mary Catherine Dafoe (Lawerence Raeburn, Richard Alan, Victoria Kay, Sandra Ann, William Thomas, Mary Elizabeth). Carol Marie Paulson does not appear.
The genealogy is sourced from a single GEDCOM (dated 2009) and may simply be incomplete; absence is not proof the child does not belong. Both lists otherwise agree on the same six names in the same order. Verified directly against the archived page.
Mary Catherine Dafoe b. 1932 children (name spelling) likely
Report Lawrence Raeburn Paulson (1951).
Records The genealogy spells the eldest son 'Lawerence Raeburn Paulson'.
Almost certainly a typo/spelling variant in the source GEDCOM, not a different person. Verified directly against the archived page.
Mary Helen Chick b. 1926 candidate husband burial place unconfirmed
Report Marriage to Donald Howard Paulson took place in Detroit, Michigan (1947); report gives no burial location for Donald
Records The only candidate husband found, 'Donald H Paulson' (4 May 1924 - 22 Jan 1983), is buried in Bellville, Richland County, Ohio, with no Michigan connection shown on the memorial
Direct inspection of the FindAGrave memorial (ID 74803409) shows only birth, death, burial (Ohio), and a '1ST LT US AIR FORCE / WORLD WAR II KOREA' inscription. It names NO spouse, NO children, and NO parents, and it does NOT reference a 'Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867-1952' entry; the only Ancestry links present are generic promotional ('Newspapers', 'Military Records', 'View more records at Ancestry.com'). The prior dossier's claim that the memorial cites a Michigan marriage record was not supported by the page and has been corrected. Surname 'Paulson' is common and the middle initial 'H' is never expanded to 'Howard', so this is most plausibly a different individual; the Ohio burial is the flag.
Esther Eunice Bills 1895–1990 children likely
Report Report lists four children: Lynn Paulson (1921), Clifford Raeburn Paulson (1922), Donald Howard Paulson (1924-1983), and a separate '(died) Paulson'.
Records The New England Ball Project (snippets only) lists three children: Lynn (b. 17 Feb 1921, d. 18 Feb 1921), Clifford Raeburn (1922), and Donald Howard (1924-1983). Lynn's death the day after birth matches the report's note about the first child dying the day after birth.
The report's '(died) Paulson' and 'Lynn Paulson (1921)' most plausibly refer to the same child (Lynn, d. 18 Feb 1921) rather than two distinct children; no evidence of a fourth child was found. This interpretation is supported by the report's own note but the corroborating detail (Lynn's exact dates) comes only from the unverified, unloadable source.
Raeburn Iver Paulson 1893–1970 death.place minor
Report Takoma Park, Maryland
Records Maryland, USA (state only)
Find a Grave lists only the state of Maryland, not the specific city (verified directly). No conflict; the memorial is simply less precise than the report.
Raeburn Iver Paulson 1893–1970 children minor
Report Lynn Paulson (1921); Clifford Raeburn Paulson (1922); Donald Howard Paulson (1924-1983); (died) Paulson
Records Infant Son (1921-1921); Clifford Raeburn Paulson (1922-2014); Donald (b. abt 1925)
Find a Grave records a 1921 infant son who died the same year. It is unclear whether this is the report's 'Lynn Paulson (1921)' or the separate '(died) Paulson' child. Donald's death year (report: 1983) is not shown on the father's memorial.
Maude Irene Wright 1869–1935 birth.place likely
Report Coral City (near Hixton), Wisconsin
Records Coral City, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, USA
Find a Grave assigns Coral City to Trempealeau County, while the report ties Coral City to Hixton (which is in Jackson County). Likely the same locality; the county attribution differs between sources. Minor/geographic only.
Maude Irene Wright 1869–1935 father.name likely
Report Zenas Hovey Wright (1838-1926)
Records Zenas Harvey Wright (1838-1926)
Find a Grave gives the father's middle name as 'Harvey'; the report says 'Hovey'. Life dates (1838-1926) are identical, so it is the same man - only the middle-name spelling differs.
Maude Irene Wright 1869–1935 death.place unconfirmed
Report City Point, Wisconsin
Records Wisconsin, USA (county/town not specified)
Find a Grave records only 'Wisconsin' for the death place; it does not contradict the report's 'City Point' but does not confirm it either. Burial is at City Point.
Sarah Jane French 1866–1950 mother birth year likely
The family report gives Grace Catherine Beever's birth as 1836 (11 Dec 1836 in the source document); FindAGrave lists 1837 for Grace Catherine Beever French. One-year discrepancy, common with 19th-century records. The report appears internally consistent on 1836.
Sarah Jane French 1866–1950 death place unconfirmed
Report Flint, Michigan
Records USA (unspecified)
The family report states she died in Flint, Michigan; the FindAGrave memorial lists the death place only as 'USA' (verified directly), so FindAGrave neither confirms nor contradicts it. The Flint, Michigan death place is supported within the family report itself, which records that she spent her later years living with her children, and the daughter Esther Paulson's household was in Flint, Michigan. Still needs an independent Michigan death certificate or obituary to confirm.
Sarah Jane French 1866–1950 birth place specificity unconfirmed
Report Canton, Jones County, Iowa
Records Jones County, Iowa (county-level only)
FindAGrave gives the birth place only to county level (Jones County, Iowa); the family report specifies the town of Canton. Not contradictory - FindAGrave is simply less specific.
Iver Paulsen 1853–1931 death date (precision) likely
Report 1931-04-05
Records 1931 (year only)
FindAGrave gives only the year 1931; the known exact date of 5 April 1931 is consistent with this but not independently confirmed by the memorial. The exact date traces to the family's death-certificate-sourced research, so it is well supported overall, just not by FindAGrave alone.
Lynn Paulson b. 1921 death unconfirmed
Report null (no death recorded in trusted family report)
Records REMOVED. Original dossier asserted 'Died 18 February 1921, one day after birth'. On audit this rests solely on newenglandballproject.com/g2/p2201.htm, which does not resolve in DNS (SERVFAIL across multiple resolvers) and was never loaded. No vital record, burial, obituary, or FindAGrave corroborates it. An unverifiable phantom-source claim is insufficient to add a death to a person the report records with death: null.
Reject this addition. The 'one day after birth' infant-death is exactly the kind of plausible-but-uncheckable detail produced by low-quality aggregated trees. Do not publish a death date for Lynn Paulson without an independent Michigan vital record (1921 birth/death index) or a contemporary notice.
Edwin Glenn Bills b. 1903 birth.date likely
Report 1903-12-16
Records 1903-12-06
The 2006 family report gives the birth date as 16 December 1903; the FindAGrave memorial gives 6 December 1903. The birth YEAR (1903) and both parents agree, so this is the same person; only the day-of-month differs (16 vs 6 - possibly a transcription transposition in one source). Neither a birth certificate nor census was located to break the tie, so neither day is independently confirmed.
Claude Zene Paulson b. 1899 death.place likely
Report null (not recorded in anchor)
Records North Carolina, USA on the memorial header; a memorial note states 'per obituary' the place was Raleigh, North Carolina
Addition. The memorial itself lists only the state (North Carolina); the city of Raleigh is attributed to an obituary that has not been independently located. Burial is in Scottsdale, Arizona, far from the stated death location, which is plausible (death while traveling/residing in NC, burial in AZ) but warrants the obituary as corroboration.
Stephen Chester Bills b. 1896 birth.place addition (not a conflict)
Report null (no birth place in report)
Records Springville, Linn County, Iowa, USA
The report left birth place blank; FindAGrave supplies Springville, Linn County, Iowa. No contradiction.
Mary Jane Nott 1848–1927 spouse likely
Report Zenas Hovey Wright (1838-1926)
Records Zenas Harvey Wright (1840-1926)
FamilySearch records the middle name as 'Harvey' and birth year 1840, versus the report's 'Hovey' and 1838. Death year (1926) and marriage details agree. 'Harvey' vs 'Hovey' is almost certainly a transcription variant of the same man; the birth-year difference (1838 vs 1840) is unresolved and would need a primary source (gravestone or census) to settle.
Louis L. Wright b. 1880 birth.date likely
The 2006 family report gives birth year 1880; the FamilySearch tree records 1879. A one-year discrepancy is common (age-based estimates vs. recorded year); both refer to the same person given the exact two-parent match.
Arminda Annabelle French b. 1868 mother.birth.date likely
Report Grace Catherine Beever born 1836
Records 1837
Known facts give the mother's birth year as 1836; FindAGrave gives 1837. A one-year discrepancy on a secondary figure (not the subject); names and death year (1911) agree, so this does not affect the identity match. Minor.
Arminda Annabelle French b. 1868 name likely
Report Arminda Annabelle French
Records Arminda Annabel French (also 'Arminda Anabel' and 'Armida' in the obituary)
Spelling of the middle name varies (Annabelle / Annabel / Anabel); the obituary headline misspells the first name as 'Armida' (ARMIDA BENDER). The mother's maiden name appears as 'Beaver' in the obituary text but 'Beever' in the family-links section. Same person; spelling variation only, not an identity conflict.
James Myron French b. 1865 mother surname likely
Report Grace Catherine Beever
Records Grace Catherine Beaver
Spelling variant only (Beaver vs Beever); same person, same life dates 1836-1911. Not a true conflict.
Berte Paulsdater b. 1865 birth.date / presence in 1865 census likely
Report Born 1865-11-27
Records The 1865 Norwegian census (enumeration date 31 December 1865) is cited as listing the Poul Olsen / Embjør Iversdatter household but NOT including a daughter Berte. A child born 27 Nov 1865 would normally appear at census time. The 1875 census records her birth only as the year '1865', not the full date 1865-11-27.
The precise date 1865-11-27 comes from the family report alone; no consulted source records the day/month. Identity is NOT in doubt — the 1875 census (auditor-verified) firmly places her as a daughter born 1865 of these exact parents. Possible explanations for the 1865 absence: (a) the date 1865-11-27 may be approximate and her birth fell just after the census; (b) a ~5-week-old infant was omitted; or (c) she was recorded elsewhere. A parish christening record is needed to settle the exact date.
John Paulsen b. 1863 birth.year (census age vs report) likely
Report Born 12 February 1863 (family report)
Records 1865 census lists John Poulsen as age 3 (born ~1862), and his father Poul Olsen's age implies birth ~1820 vs report's 1822
Minor census age-rounding, not a true conflict. A child born 12 Feb 1863 would be recorded as 2-going-on-3 in the Dec 1865/Jan 1866 enumeration; 'age 3' is consistent. The exact birth date 12 Feb 1863 still rests on the 2006 family report and should be confirmed against the Søndre Fron parish baptism register (1862-1863).
Mary Joanna French b. 1859 mother birth year likely
Report Grace Catherine Beever born 1836 (agrees with known facts: 1836-1911)
Records Grace Catherine Beever French listed as 1837-1911 on Joseph French's FindAGrave memorial (verified first-hand)
One-year discrepancy on the MOTHER's birth year: known facts and report say 1836; FindAGrave says 1837. Death year 1911 agrees across all. This concerns the mother, not Mary Joanna herself, and likely reflects census/age-rounding differences. Does not affect Mary Joanna's identity.
Ronnoug Paulsdater b. 1858 mother unconfirmed
Report Embjor Iversdater (1828-1905)
Records Rønnaug Gunnarsdatter Viken (on the Geni 'Rønnaug Paulsdatter Viken (1858)' profile)
This concerns a same-name candidate, NOT a confirmed match for our person, and is NOT a correction to the known facts. The Geni profile 'Rønnaug Paulsdatter Viken (1858)' lists parents Paul Olsen Vigen and Rønnaug Gunnarsdatter Viken. The given name and birth year match, but the mother contradicts the report's trusted anchor (Embjor Iversdater). Because identity rests only on a very common name (Paul Olsen) plus birth year, with a hard mismatch on the mother, this candidate is rejected as a different person. The Geni page is login/JS-gated, so the underlying parent data could not be independently re-verified in this audit.
William Newton French b. 1857 mother's birth year likely
Report Grace Catherine Beever born 1836 (per known facts)
Records FindAGrave records spouse 'Grace Catherine Beever French 1837–1911' on Joseph French's memorial (ID 70321941), and the biography notes the marriage in 1856/1857
One-year difference (1836 vs 1837) in the mother's birth year; death year 1911 agrees. Minor, common discrepancy in derived records. Does not affect identification of William.
Ole Paulsen b. 1855 mother.name likely
Report Embjor Iversdater (1828–1905)
Records Embjør / Embjørg Iversdatter (b. 1828, Sør-Fron); forum reports she died in Hennepin County, Minnesota
Same person — the report's 'Embjor Iversdater' is a simplified rendering of the Norwegian patronymic. Note the forum thread spells it 'Embjørg' (with a g); the 1865 census indexes 'Embjør'. The 1865 census confirms birth year 1828 and Sør-Fron origin. The forum reports she died in Hennepin County, Minnesota (i.e., she also emigrated), consistent with the report's 1905 death year. Not a true conflict — a spelling/standardization note plus a death-place lead (Minnesota) that the report does not record.
Angeline French b. 1853 sibling.spouse likely
Report Dossier stated Charlotte French married 'Richard DeMoss of Jackson County, Iowa.'
Records Sources confirm the sister as Charlotte French DeMoss (married surname DeMoss) but do not state the husband's given name was 'Richard' nor that he resided in Jackson County, Iowa.
Sibling relationship and DeMoss married surname are confirmed; the specific husband name/county were unsupported in the fetched sources and need an independent record (marriage license or census) to confirm.
Charlotte French b. 1851 death (exact date and burial) likely
Report Death 8 May 1903; buried Hickory Grove Cemetery, Emeline, Jackson County, Iowa
Records Death YEAR 1903 confirmed via father's memorial; exact date and cemetery cited only to a FindAGrave search-result URL, not a fetched memorial page
The specific death day and burial cemetery rest on a single unverified search-result link. Identity is not in doubt, but these two specifics should be verified against Charlotte's own memorial before publication. Original dossier marked this 'confirmed' on a search URL alone; downgraded to 'likely'.
Mari Paulsdater b. 1850 birth.date likely
Report 1850-12-30
Records 1 Jan 1850 (FindAGrave, verified) vs 30 Dec 1850 (report and Norwegian parish records per forum)
FindAGrave lists 1 Jan 1850 (confirmed during audit); the report and the Norwegian-archives forum (citing parish records) give 30 Dec 1850. The 1-2 day gap is almost certainly the same person — a common rounding/transcription of an end-of-1850 birth to the start of the next calendar year on the US gravestone or memorial. Treat 30 December 1850 (matching the trusted anchor) as authoritative.
Mari Paulsdater b. 1850 spouse.birthYear / death.place likely
Report (report lists no spouse)
Records Husband Hans Troen birth year given as 1845 (forum) vs 1844 (FindAGrave); husband's death place given as Irving, Jackson County (forum) but burial recorded at Riverside Cemetery, Black River Falls (FindAGrave).
Minor inconsistencies in the husband's records, not in Mari's. The trusted anchor records no spouse, so the marriage to Hans Christiansen/Christenson Troen is wholly new information. A death-place vs burial-place difference is normal (people are often buried in a town adjacent to where they died), so this is not a red flag against identity.
Mary Jane Nott 1848–1927 burial likely
Report Garden Valley Cemetary, Jackson County, Wisconsin
Records Buried in Humbird, Clark County, Wisconsin (per tree narrative)
The FamilySearch tree narrative states she 'was buried in Humbird, Clark, Wisconsin.' This conflicts with the report's Garden Valley Cemetery (Jackson County). Humbird (Clark Co.) is adjacent to the Garden Valley/Northfield area, which straddles the Jackson/Clark county line, so the two may describe the same general locale or a place-vs-cemetery confusion. The FamilySearch entry is sourced to a 'Find a Grave Index' record, but the specific FindAGrave memorial naming the exact cemetery could not be opened to confirm; the cemetery of burial remains an open question.
Elizabeth Wright b. 1842 mother death year likely
Report Amanda Finch (1821-1846)
Records Amanda (Finch) Wright shown as 1821-1848 on Geni and GenoPro
The report gives Elizabeth's mother Amanda Finch's death as 1846; the Geni and GenoPro trees record 1848. This concerns the mother, not Elizabeth herself, and rests on uncited user trees; flagged but not resolved here.
Elizabeth Wright b. 1842 birth place specificity likely
Report (birth place null)
Records Hazel Green, Grant, Wisconsin (authoritative LDS database) vs Hardscrabble, Grant, Wisconsin (GenoPro)
Not a conflict with the report (which left birth place blank). The authoritative LDS Church History Biographical Database gives 'Hazel Green, Grant, Wisconsin'; GenoPro gives 'Hardscrabble' — both within Grant County, Wisconsin. A stray search snippet placing Hardscrabble in Jackson County is not supported by the detailed sources, which place the 1842 birth in Grant County.
Zenas Hovey Wright 1838–1926 name (middle name) likely
Report Zenas Hovey Wright
Records Zenas Harvey Wright
Find a Grave and FamilySearch both render the middle name as 'Harvey' rather than 'Hovey'. Likely transcription drift between the family report ('Hovey') and indexed records ('Harvey'); all other anchors confirm the same individual. A headstone photo, marriage certificate, or death certificate would settle which form is correct.
Zenas Hovey Wright 1838–1926 birth year likely
Report 1838-10-29
Records 1840 (in FamilySearch spouse-page summary only)
The FamilySearch wife-tree summary lists the husband as 'Zenas Harvey Wright 1840-1926'. The Find a Grave memorial (records-based) gives 29 Oct 1838, matching the report; the 1840 figure is an isolated tree error. 1838 is the better-supported year.
Zenas Hovey Wright 1838–1926 father birth year likely
Report Phineas Wright (1812-1874)
Records Phineas Wright (1811-1874)
Both the Find a Grave memorial and the GenoPro tree give Phineas Wright's birth as 1811 (report says 1812). Minor one-year discrepancy, now seen on two sources rather than one.
Phineas Wright 1812–1874 spouses likely
Report Amanda Finch (1821-1846)
Records Amanda Finch Wright (1821-1848)
Same first wife; FindAGrave gives her death year as 1848 rather than the report's 1846. Marriage year (1836) and birth year (1821) agree.
Grace Catherine Beever 1836–1911 death.date likely
Report 1911-01-18
Records 13 Jan 1911
Source death date is 13 Jan 1911, corroborated by her obituary in the Monticello Express dated 19 Jan 1911 which states she 'died last Friday morning' (the Friday before a Thursday 19 Jan 1911 paper is 13 Jan). The report's 18 Jan 1911 is therefore the value in question and appears unsupported; the family-record anchor and the source disagree by five days. Recommend the family record's 18 Jan be re-checked against the death certificate or burial register.
Grace Catherine Beever 1836–1911 birth.date (year) likely
Report 1836-01-31
Records 31 Jan 1837
Day and month (31 January) agree exactly; Find a Grave gives the year as 1837 versus the report's 1836. The memorial's stated age at death (73) is consistent with an 1837 birth for a Jan 1911 death. A one-year headstone/age discrepancy is common; unresolved. An 1850/1860 census or the gravestone inscription could settle it.
Grace Catherine Beever 1836–1911 spouses[0].married (year) likely
Report 1856-12-25
Records 1856 (obituary and county biography); m. 1857 (FindAGrave structured spouse link)
Two narrative sources (Joseph's county biography and Grace's obituary) both say the marriage was in 1856 in Clay Township, consistent with the report's 25 Dec 1856. The structured FindAGrave spouse link shows 'm. 1857' - a minor internal FindAGrave inconsistency, plausibly a late-December 1856 ceremony recorded in 1857. The specific day (25 Dec) is from the family record only and is not in the consulted sources.
Eliza Ann French b. 1836 birth.place unconfirmed
Report no birthplace known
Records Conflicting across submissions: most give Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania; a Clark-family GEDCOM cluster gives Ohio; one gives Iowa. Unresolved.
Because the submissions disagree, no single birthplace can be asserted. Amity Twp., Berks Co., PA is the most frequently cited and travels with the fullest record (including the 1918 Wyoming death), but it is not confirmed.
Mary Jane Ball 1835–1862 birth.place low
Report Forestville, New York
Records Chautauqua County, New York, USA
Not a true conflict: Forestville is a hamlet within the Town of Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York. Find a Grave gives the county-level placename; the report gives the hamlet. Consistent.
Emerancy Howard b. 1835 name (given name) likely
Report Emerancy Howard
Records Emma N Howard Bills
FindAGrave records her given name as 'Emma N' (with a middle initial N), whereas the 2006 family report has 'Emerancy'. The surrounding family anchors (husband Daniel Buell Bills 1830-1914 and child Carrie Luella Bills 1867) confirm this entry refers to the same person, but no single source shows BOTH 'Emerancy' and 'Emma N', so the given-name forms are not independently reconciled. 'Emma' is plausibly a shortened/recorded form of 'Emerancy', but this remains a discrepancy rather than a proven equivalence. Kept at 'likely'.
Emerancy Howard b. 1835 birth date likely
Report 1835-05 (May 1835)
Records 1833 (year only, per FindAGrave)
FindAGrave gives a birth year of 1833 for Emma N Howard Bills; the family report gives May 1835. A two-year discrepancy on a single anchor; neither source provides a full birth date with place to settle it. A census (1870/1880 Jones County, Iowa) or her gravestone would resolve it. Kept at 'likely'.
Sarah Adelia Wright b. 1835 birth.date likely
Report 1835-11-25
Records 1837-09-20 (alternate, in some trees)
Geni and WikiTree give an alternate birth of 20 September 1837 in Upper Canada for the same person (Strang's wife, later Wing, died 1923 Boise). However, the FindAGrave memorial AND the LDS Church History Biographical Database both give 25 November 1835, matching the report and the known facts. The 1835-11-25 date is the better-supported one; the 1837 date is noted as a competing claim only.
Alvin Billings Ball b. 1832 spouse likely
Report Married Martha Adelaide Divinney, Aug 1858, Michigan (per New England Ball Project)
Records Find a Grave memorial 6634200 lists NO spouse; the New England Ball Project page no longer resolves and could not be checked
Material discrepancy. The only verifiable source shows no spouse, and the sole source for the marriage is unreachable. The marriage finding has been downgraded to 'unconfirmed' accordingly.
Jesse Clark French b. 1832 marriage date likely
Report
Records 11 Oct 1860 (1890 biography) vs. 8 Oct 1860 (WikiTree)
The two sources disagree on the day of the October 1860 marriage; both agree on month, year, place (Jones County, Iowa), and spouse (Laura Mudge). The 1890 biography (11 Oct 1860) was verified by direct fetch of the source text and is the more authoritative of the two.
Jesse Clark French b. 1832 wife's given name likely
Report
Records Laura Emaline (1890 biography) vs. Laura Eveline (WikiTree/MyHeritage)
The 1890 biography records the wife's middle name as 'Emaline'; WikiTree and MyHeritage render it 'Eveline'. Both agree on the given name Laura, the surname Mudge, the 1837 birth in Vermont, and the marriage to Jesse French. The correct form of the middle name is unresolved.
Ole Iversen b. 1831 openQuestions / summary (prior dossier) likely
Report Prior dossier asserted 'No death, burial, marriage, spouse, or children are recorded for Ole Iversen' and that the birthplace parish 'is unknown', and that 'No new confirmed facts were established beyond the report.'
Records The family report's own linked records DO record a death date for Ole Iversen (12 March 1875, in the father's reportNotes) and DO point to a probable parish (Soer-Fron / Hundorp, via the sibling Embjor Iversdater (1828) and the Soer-Fron Dom Kirke marriage/baptism locale). The prior dossier overlooked these within-report facts.
Not a wrong-person match — an omission/inaccuracy in the prior dossier's own summary of the report. Corrected here. Still no INDEPENDENT external source, so overall identity remains unconfirmed externally.
Dan Buell Bills 1830–1914 birth.place likely
Report Near Fort Ticonderoga, New York (Essex County)
Records Cattaraugus County, New York
Find a Grave (verified directly) lists his birthplace as Cattaraugus County, NY; the report says near Fort Ticonderoga (Essex Co.), with the family moving to Chautauqua County when he was seven. Cattaraugus adjoins Chautauqua, so the FindAGrave value may conflate birthplace with the later childhood-residence region. Both agree on New York State.
Dan Buell Bills 1830–1914 mother likely
Report Mary Day (1790-1852)
Records Mary Jane Bills (1790-1853), no maiden name shown; no father linked
Dan's memorial (verified directly) lists only a mother, 'Mary Jane Bills 1790-1853' (first name Mary and birth year 1790 match the report's Mary Day; death year differs by one, maiden name 'Day' not shown, middle name 'Jane' added). The report's father, Chester Bills (1791-1845), is NOT linked on the memorial.
Dan Buell Bills 1830–1914 spouses[1].name likely
Report Emerancy Howard (1835)
Records Emma N Howard Bills (1833-1912)
Surname Howard agrees; given name Emerancy vs Emma (plausible variant/nickname, but unverified); birth year 1833 (FindAGrave) vs 1835 (report).
Embjor Iversdater 1828–1905 father.birth likely
Report Iver Olsen (1801)
Records Iver Olsen Vangen 1802-1891
1-year discrepancy (1801 vs 1802) on father's birth; minor, does not affect identity. Verify in Sor-Fron parish records.
Embjor Iversdater 1828–1905 children likely
Report Ole Paulsen (1855) and John Paulsen (1863)
Records not linked on memorial
Report sons Ole (1855) and John (1863) are absent from the memorial's child list, which appears incomplete. Confirm via Sor-Fron baptism/census on Digitalarkivet.
Embjor Iversdater 1828–1905 death.age likely
Report born 1828, died 1905 (age ~76)
Records Layman's burial card age 81; FindAGrave computes aged 76
Burial-card age 81 conflicts with computed age ~76. Clerical error on the card; FindAGrave's own 'aged 76' agrees with the report.
Abigail Finch b. 1823 marriage.place likely
Report (report lists no spouse)
Records Marriage to Easton Kelsey reported as 14 September 1839 at Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio — single-source (blog) and geographically atypical for an 1839 Latter-day Saint couple.
The marriage place/date is uncorroborated. FindAGrave lists Abigail only as a named spouse, not a marriage event. Flagging because an Ohio (Toledo) 1839 marriage does not obviously fit the Kelseys' early LDS movements (Kirtland/Far West/Nauvoo) and warrants verification.
Abigail Finch b. 1823 mother.birth year likely
Report Elizabeth Pierce (1787-1827)
Records WikiTree gives Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch as 1790-1827 (death year matches; birth year differs).
Minor and concerns the mother, not Abigail. Death year 1827 agrees; birth year differs (1790 vs 1787). The WikiTree profile is flagged as lacking sources, so the report's 1787 is not necessarily wrong.
Abigail Finch b. 1823 father.birthplace / birth year likely
Report George Finch (1787-1827) — no place given
Records George Finch recorded as born ~1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia (WikiTree spouse field).
Adds a birthplace (Cornwallis, Nova Scotia) for the father consistent with the family's Nova Scotia origins; birth year ~1786 closely matches the report's 1787. Single, unsourced tree field.
Joseph French 1823–1900 spouses[0].married (date and place) likely
Report Married Catherine Sinkey in 1849 at Johnstown, Ohio
Records Find a Grave: married Catharine Sinkey (m. 1850); biographical sketch says he went to Noble County, Indiana in 1849 and married there
The report is internally inconsistent: its spouse field says Johnstown, Ohio while its own reportNotes say 'Nobel County, Indiana' (1849). The FindAGrave sketch agrees with the report's notes (Noble Co., Indiana). Marriage year is 1849 (report field/notes) vs 1850 (FindAGrave spouse field). Not resolved by a primary marriage record.
Joseph French 1823–1900 spouses[1].name birth year likely
Report Grace Catherine Beever (1836-1911)
Records Find a Grave lists Grace Catherine Beever French as 1837-1911
One-year difference in birth year (1836 vs 1837); death year 1911 agrees. Minor and unresolved.
Joseph French 1823–1900 spouses[1].married (date and place) likely
Report Married Grace Catherine Beever 1856-12-25 at Canton, Jones County, Iowa
Records Find a Grave spouse field: (m. 1857); biographical sketch: 'in 1856, married his present wife, Gracie C. Beaver' on his father's old homestead in Clay Township
Report says 25 Dec 1856; the FindAGrave sketch agrees with 1856 while the structured spouse field says 1857. Place 'Canton' (report) vs 'old homestead in Clay Township' (sketch) is plausibly the same locale (Canton was the Clay Township P.O. per the sketch). Not resolved by a marriage record.
Johnathan Ball b. 1822 birth.date likely
Report 1822-08-07
Records 1820-08-07
The trusted 2006 family report records the birth as 7 August 1822. Both the Find a Grave memorial (#6634191) and the WikiTree profile give 7 August 1820. The day and month (7 August) agree exactly; only the year differs by two years. Importantly, the two online sources are NOT independent for the year: WikiTree derives from Find a Grave, and the 'aged 52' figure is internal arithmetic from Find a Grave's own assumed birthdate, not corroborating evidence. Because the only trusted anchor (the family report) says 1822 and no primary record (census, probate, church, or Bible) has been examined, the year remains unresolved and the family-report year of 1822 is retained as the canonical value. Downgraded from the dossier's 'confirmed' to 'likely'.
Johnathan Ball b. 1822 mother.birth likely
Report Rebecca Messenger (1782)
Records Rebecca Messenger Ball (1784-1845)
The known/family anchor gives the mother's birth year as 1782; the Find a Grave and WikiTree records give 1784. A two-year difference in the mother's birth year, not identity-breaking (the mother is the same Rebecca Messenger on both the family report and the records). Noted for completeness.
Paul Olsen 1822–1885 spouse birth year (Embjør Iversdatter) likely
Report 1828
Records ~1827 (age 38 in the 1865 census)
One-year difference is normal for age-calculated census records and does not indicate a different person.
Paul Olsen 1822–1885 subject birth year likely
Report 1822 (1822-02-03)
Records 1821 calculated in the 1865 census (age 45); 1822 in the 1875 census and 1885 death record
The 1865 'born 1821 (calculated)' is derived from recorded age and is off by one; the 1875 census and the 1885 death record (verified in this audit) both give 1822, matching the known facts. No conflict on identity.
Paul Olsen 1822–1885 birth place likely
Report null (unknown)
Records Søndre Fron parish (per censuses); 'Stannes' recorded as birthplace in the 1885 death register
New information not in the known facts. Censuses give birthplace as Søndre Froens Prgj.; the 1885 death register (verified in this audit) records birth place 'Stannes' (a farm/place name within the parish).
Amanda Finch 1821–1846 death.date likely
Report 1846
Records 1848-01-01 (January 1, 1848)
Geni and the FamilySearch Family Tree give 1 Jan 1848, two years later than the report's 1846. Based on uncited online trees only; no primary death record located. Unresolved.
Amanda Finch 1821–1846 death.place likely
Report Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Records Voree, Racine, Wisconsin
Trees place her death at Voree (Racine Co.), the early Strangite settlement in southeastern Wisconsin, vs Black River Falls (Jackson Co.) in the report. Both in Wisconsin. The report's location is supported by the family's documented presence in western Wisconsin (daughter Elizabeth b. 1842 Grant Co.; son Phineas b. 1846 Wisconsin) and husband Phineas being buried at Wrightsville, Jackson Co., near Black River Falls — which argues against the southeastern Voree location. Unresolved.
Amanda Finch 1821–1846 birth.place likely
Report Johnstown, Nova Scotia, Canada
Records Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Trees state Cornwallis/Kings County rather than Johnstown; both are in Nova Scotia. Her parents George Finch and Elizabeth Pierce married at Cornwallis Township, Kings Co., which is consistent with a Cornwallis birthplace, but this rests on uncited trees, not a primary birth/baptism record. Unresolved.
Philetus S. Nott b. 1820 spouse likely
Report Mary Goff (1814)
Records FindAGrave lists his spouse as Irene Lyon Nott (1830-1913); FamilySearch shows the mother of his daughter Mary Jane (born 1848) was named 'Mary', age ~34 (born ~1814), consistent with Mary Goff.
The report's Mary Goff (b. 1814) is consistent with the 'Mary' (age 34) shown as Mary Jane's mother on FamilySearch. Irene Lyon (b. 1830) was only ~18 in 1848 and too young to be the 1848-born daughter's mother, so she is probably a second/later wife rather than a contradiction of Mary Goff. Both women may be correct as sequential spouses. No citable source confirming a remarriage or Mary Goff's death was found.
Aaron French b. 1819 birthplace county likely
Report report has no birthplace; family genealogy says Amity, Washington County, PA
Records Find a Grave memorial 22604197 records the birthplace as 'Amity, Bucks County, Pennsylvania', whereas the published family genealogy and the brother Jesse C. French's biography place the family in Washington County, PA.
Amity is the consistent place name across sources, but the county is contradicted (Bucks vs. Washington). Worth resolving with a PA vital/land record. The birth DATE (1819-07-04) is not in dispute.
Lucy Bell Ball b. 1818 mother's birth year likely
Report Rebecca Messenger born 1782
Records Rebecca Messenger born 14 Nov 1784 (died 12 Aug 1845, Hanover Center, Chautauqua, NY)
Minor two-year discrepancy in the mother's birth year. WikiTree gives a specific date (14 Nov 1784) versus the known facts' 1782. Does not affect identification of Lucy.
Rebecca Finch b. 1817 mother.birth.year likely
Report Elizabeth Pierce born 1787
Records Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch born 2 Aug 1790 (WikiTree); a profile discussion also proposes ~1796
The candidate-mother record agrees on the 1827 death year and on the husband (George Finch), but the birth year differs from the report by ~3 years, and WikiTree itself notes unresolved parentage/birth-year uncertainty for this Elizabeth Pierce (and flags two different same-name women). Same-person identity is plausible but not established.
Rebecca Finch b. 1817 children / Rebecca's existence unconfirmed
Report Rebecca Finch born 14 May 1817, daughter of George Finch and Elizabeth Pierce
Records The matching WikiTree parental profile lists only one child (Amanda, b. 1821) and does NOT list a daughter Rebecca born 1817.
Search-result summaries paraphrasing the Geni tree assert a 'Rebecca (Finch) Wright' among the siblings, but that page could not be loaded directly (a browser fetch returned HTTP 200 with no readable text), so Rebecca's 1817 birth and her membership in this family could not be confirmed against any source read first-hand.
Catharine A. Throop b. 1817 mother unconfirmed
Report Catherine Walker (1776)
Records Not confirmed in public sources. The father's verified Find a Grave memorial links no wife (no spouse is shown), and no public profile was found establishing Catherine Walker (b. 1776) as the wife of Thomas Billings Throop.
The mother named in the report could not be corroborated. Several unrelated 'Catherine/Catharine Walker' records surfaced but none tie to this Throop family. Not a contradiction, just unverified.
Catharine A. Throop b. 1817 subject record unconfirmed
Report Catharine A. Throop, b. 26 June 1817, daughter of Thomas Billings Throop
Records No primary or secondary record naming Catharine A. Throop (b. 1817) as a child of Thomas Billings Throop was located. The father's verified memorial lists only one child, Rebecca William Throop Luce (1801-1883). Both findings in this dossier document the FATHER, not Catharine; her own identity, birth, and parentage tie remain undocumented.
Important calibration: the 'confirmed' finding above confirms the family anchor (the father), NOT Catharine herself. The father's child list is incomplete, so the absence is not evidence against the report, but no positive evidence for Catharine exists either.
Margaret Finch b. 1815 father birth year likely
Report George Finch born 1787
Records George Finch born about 1786 (Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia)
One-year difference (1786 vs 1787); both agree on death year 1827. FamilySearch gives the birth as 'about 1786', so this is a minor, non-conflicting variance, not a true discrepancy.
Margaret Finch b. 1815 mother birth year likely
Report Elizabeth Pierce born 1787
Records Elizabeth Pierce born 1796 (FamilySearch) / 2 August 1790 (WikiTree Pierce-7906)
The anchor's 1787 for the mother matches NEITHER online source (FamilySearch 1796; WikiTree 1790) — a notable spread of about 3-9 years. All sources agree she was named Elizabeth Pierce, married George Finch, and died in 1827, so the identity of the mother is the same person; only the birth year is inconsistent. WikiTree also notes confusion about Elizabeth's parentage. The mother's birth year should not be relied on.
Sarah Finch b. 1813 mother.birth.date likely
Report Elizabeth Pierce born 1787 (per report, 1787-1827)
Records WikiTree gives Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch's birth as 2 August 1790 (death 1827)
Death year 1827 agrees with the report; only the birth year differs (1790 vs 1787). WikiTree profile is flagged as unsourced, so the 1790 date is not authoritative. Minor, within genealogical tolerance.
Sarah Finch b. 1813 father.birth.date likely
Report George Finch born 1787 (per report, 1787-1827)
Records WikiTree gives George Finch's birth as 1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia
Off by one year (1786 vs 1787); within normal genealogical tolerance. WikiTree adds a birthplace (Cornwallis, Nova Scotia) absent from the report. Source is unsourced WikiTree.
Sarah Finch b. 1813 birth.place unconfirmed
Report Sarah Finch birth place: null (unknown)
Records Family records place this Finch family in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada; siblings (e.g., Amanda, b. 1821) were born there, suggesting Sarah likely was too.
Birthplace is INFERRED from the family's documented location, not from any record naming Sarah. Since Sarah's own membership in this family is itself only 'likely' (parent-name match, birth year unconfirmed), the inferred birthplace is correspondingly weak. Do not adopt as fact.
Iver Olsen b. 1812 mother / father's spouse likely
Report Mother: Lisbet Olsdater (b. 1785)
Records WikiTree records Ole Iversen Rud's wife as Marte Olsdatter Sandholt (1777-1835), born Sandholt, Eidsvoll; no Lisbet Olsdatter is linked as a spouse. Verified live on profile Iversen-1009 (Husband of Marte (Olsdatter) Sandholt; [children unknown]).
This is the central reason the father identification cannot be confirmed and why the subject cannot be reached through this line. Possible explanations: (a) the WikiTree Ole Iversen is simply a different man who happens to share 1781/1861 — plausible given how common the name is; (b) an earlier/second wife not recorded on WikiTree; or (c) an error in one source. The mother is the single most decisive parental anchor, and it does not agree.
Phineas Wright 1812–1874 death.date likely
Report 1874-03-20
Records 21 March 1874 (FindAGrave); 20 March 1874 (obituary/report)
FindAGrave lists 21 Mar 1874 vs the report's 20 Mar 1874. A one-day discrepancy, possibly death vs. report/burial date. Place and age (62) agree.
Barzillai Throop b. 1811 father place / report note 'Algonquin, Ill.' likely
Report Father Thomas Billings Throop associated (per family report context) with places including Algonquin
Records The Throop Genealogy lists Thomas Billings Throope (b.1771) at 'Middleburg and Hanover, N.Y., and Algonquin, Ill.' Separately, a closely related Throop line settled at 'Algonquin' in Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada (e.g., Benjamin Nelson Throop, b. Jan 9 1811, Algonquin/Augusta, Grenville Co.). The two 'Algonquins' (Illinois vs. Augusta Twp., Ontario) are distinct and easily conflated in trees; the published genealogy assigns Thomas Billings Throope to Algonquin, Illinois.
Flagged so future research distinguishes Algonquin, Illinois from Algonquin in Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario.
Ruth French b. 1810 mother.death (date detail) likely
Report Ruth Coe (1770-1835)
Records Death given as Mar. 19, 1835 in the 1910 book; a French Family Association prose passage instead said 'March 18, 1835'. Minor one-day discrepancy in secondary sources; both agree on 1835 and on Johnstown, Ohio. Concerns the mother, not the subject.
No effect on identifying the subject Ruth French; recorded for completeness.
Abigail S. Throop 1809–1843 death.date unconfirmed
Report 1843-10-22
Records 1843-10-30
DOWNGRADED from likely. The 30 Oct 1843 date rests solely on a FindAGrave SEARCH-query URL, not an actual memorial record, so it is not substantiated. The verified Mary Jane Ball Bills memorial gives Abigail only as years 1809–1843 (no day). The report's 22 Oct 1843 should stand pending a primary record (cemetery transcription or death record).
Abigail S. Throop 1809–1843 burial unconfirmed
Report Smith Mills, New York
Records Balltown Cemetery, Balltown, Chautauqua County, New York
DOWNGRADED from likely. The 'Balltown Cemetery' burial is asserted only from a FindAGrave SEARCH-query URL, with no actual memorial or cemetery record captured to confirm it exists or applies to this Abigail. The sourcesConsulted include Smiths Mill Cemetery / Smith Mills (Chautauqua County), which supports the report. Treat the report's Smith Mills, NY as primary until a real cemetery record is found.
Abigail S. Throop 1809–1843 spouses[0].married likely
Report 1831-03-16?
Records 1831-08-06
The New England Ball Project gives the marriage as 6 Aug 1831 at Hanover, NY; the report tentatively lists 16 Mar 1831 (flagged with '?'). Both agree on year (1831) and place (Hanover, NY). The found date comes from an unfetched search snippet and was not page-verified.
Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 James J. Strang son-in-law claim / which daughter likely
Report Dossier finding attributed the marriage to James J. Strang specifically to daughter Phoebe A. Wright Jesse (1836-1914)
Records The memorial bio states only 'Benjamin's daughter married James J. Strang' and does NOT name which daughter; Phoebe A. Wright Jesse's listed surname (Jesse) and dates do not by themselves establish her as Strang's wife
The specific attribution to Phoebe A. Wright Jesse is an inference beyond what the source states and has been removed from the children finding. The general claim that one of Benjamin's daughters married Strangite leader James J. Strang is supported by the genealogy quoted on the memorial; the exact daughter remains unverified and is flagged as an open question.
Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 name (middle name spelling) likely
Report Benjamin Gile Wright
Records Benjamin Guyal Wright
Genealogical trees consistently record the middle name as 'Guyal' (one death-record transcription renders it 'Gil'). Given that the 1809 birth year and both parents (George Wright 1788, Phoebe Whitley 1790) match the family report exactly, 'Gile' is almost certainly a transcription variant of the same middle name rather than a different person.
Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 birth date / birthplace (conflicting source) likely
Report 1809 (place unknown)
Records Most sources: 6 March 1809, Johnstown, Leeds, Ontario. BUT one death-record transcription (Madison Historical Society, cited on the GenoPro Phineas page) implies birth c.1798 and birthplace Toronto.
The c.1798/Toronto figures derive from an age-at-death calculation (91y 5m 19d back from 25 July 1900) on a single death record and conflict with the detailed 1809 Johnstown birth that agrees with the family report and FamilySearch. Treating 1809/Johnstown as correct and the 1798/Toronto reading as a transcription inconsistency.
Benjamin Gile Wright b. 1809 children roster (overclaim removed) likely
Report Children incl. George (1833), Amantha, Samuel, Phoebe
Records GenoPro detail page lists only ONE child of Benjamin Guyal + Margaret Finch: Phoebe. George (1833) and Samuel are not named as their children on the verified page.
Added during audit. The verified GenoPro page lists only Phoebe; 'George 1833' and 'Samuel' were not supported by any cited source, so they were removed from the verified children statement and the finding downgraded to unconfirmed.
Abigail Whitley b. 1808 birth.date unconfirmed
Report 1808
Records Not corroborated; no citable record consulted confirmed a 1808 birth year for Abigail.
The 1808 birth year appears only in the family report. The RootsWeb Shunk page for John Whitley / Margaret Hagerman does not list Abigail at all (only Jane Whitley, b. 1794), and the Geni page could not be read. Not a contradiction, but the 1808 year is entirely unverified by any record consulted.
Abigail Whitley b. 1808 name unconfirmed
Report Abigail Whitley (no married name)
Records Possibly 'Abigail Jarvis-Hatch (born Whitley)' per tree snippets — married surnames Jarvis (Joseph Jarvis) and Hatch
Downgraded from 'likely.' The report lists no spouses or otherNames. The married-surname lead comes only from uncited/unreadable Geni tree data; it adds to rather than contradicts the report, but is not yet supported by any citable record.
Deborah French b. 1807 name/married surname unconfirmed
Report Deborah French (no married surname or spouse recorded)
Records Possibly married surname Clark (m. William Clark, 1827) — single-source, unverified
The trusted report listed no spouse. The 1910 genealogy is said to supply husband William Clark, but this was not verifiable at the cited (index) URL and mirrors the AUNT's pattern (Deborah French b.1769 m. Isaac Clark). Treat as an unconfirmed addition, not an established married name.
Rachel French b. 1805 birth.date unconfirmed
Report 1805-04-19
Records No source located confirms the specific date 1805-04-19. The FFA chart lists Rachel as a child of Aaron Jr. French but provides NO birth date for her (its narrative dates other siblings, e.g. Joseph b. 1793, John b. 1795, Ira b. 1797, Abigail b. 1799, but not Rachel).
Caution: the report's birth date for Rachel (19 Apr 1805) shares the same month-and-day as her father Aaron Jr. French's reputed birth date (19 Apr 1767). This coincidence could indicate a data-entry artifact in the original report and should be verified against a primary record (Bible, baptism, or census-derived year) before being relied upon. Confirmed against the chart text that no birth date for Rachel is given.
Henry Whitley b. 1805 children likely
Report Henry Whitley listed among children of John Whitley (1761-1838) and Margaret Hagerman (1771-1845), with siblings John, Samuel, James, Abigail, Sarah, Phoebe, and Jane.
Records The verified RootsWeb Shunk Family Tree family-group page for this exact couple lists only ONE child: Jane Whitley (b. 20 Feb 1794, Elizabethtown Twp., m. George Sheppard). Henry is not listed, nor are the other asserted siblings.
The discrepancy may reflect an incomplete RootsWeb page rather than an error, but it means Henry's place in this family is uncorroborated by any source the auditor could read. The sibling roster in the original dossier was attributed to a Geni profile that was never actually opened.
Stephen Munn Ball b. 1804 marriage.date unconfirmed
Report 1831-03-16? (marriage to Abigail S. Throop, Hanover, New York)
Records 6 August 1831, Hanover, New York
The New England Ball Project (surfaced via web search, site unreachable for direct fetch) gives the marriage to Abigail S. Throop as 6 Aug 1831 at Hanover, NY, vs the report's tentative '1831-03-16?'. Both agree on year (1831), place (Hanover, NY), and spouse; only day/month differ, and the report's own date carries a question mark. Downgraded to unconfirmed: a single uncited compiled-genealogy source cannot override or settle the report's tentative date. Needs a primary marriage record.
Samuel Whitley b. 1803 mother.birthPlace unconfirmed
Report not specified in report (report only gives Margaret Hagerman 1771-1845)
Records Conflicting: RootsWeb family group sheet gives Margaret Hagerman's birthplace as 'New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts'; a Geni-derived search summary gives 'Dutchess, New York'. Hagerman family histories place the Loyalist Hagermans near Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., New York before emigrating to Canada in 1784.
Concerns the mother, not Samuel directly; a data conflict among supporting trees. The Dutchess Co., NY origin is better supported by Hagerman UE Loyalist accounts. Unresolved from secondary sources alone.
Samuel Whitley b. 1803 father.birthPlace unconfirmed
Report not specified in report
Records Tree gives John Whitley's birthplace as Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Ontario in 1761 — chronologically implausible, since that area was settled by United Empire Loyalists only c.1784. Likely a tree error (birth probably pre-emigration in the American colonies).
Concerns the father, not Samuel directly. Flagged because it undermines the reliability of the same trees used to assert Samuel's place in the family.
Samuel Whitley b. 1803 name unconfirmed
Report Samuel Whitley
Records Samuel C. Whitley (with middle initial 'C') per Geni
Not a contradiction; the report simply omits a middle initial. Recorded for completeness. Note this middle initial itself comes only from unverified search snippets of the Geni page.
Sarah Clark 1801–1891 mother unconfirmed
Report Van Dyke
Records Ann Dodd Clark (1761-1838)
Find a Grave names Sarah's mother as 'Ann Dodd Clark', not 'Van Dyke'. This is family-tree-entered with no record cited; 'Dodd' also appears in sibling name 'Cephas Dodd Clark', but that is internal to the same unsourced tree. Conflict unresolved; 'Van Dyke' in the report may refer to a different generation or be an error on either side.
Sarah Clark 1801–1891 birth.place unconfirmed
Report Virginia Or West Virginia
Records Amity, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (per memorial)
Memorial states 'Amity, Bucks County, Pennsylvania', which is internally inconsistent (Amity, PA is in Washington County, matching the report's marriage place 'Amity, Pennsylvania'), so the county is likely a tree error and the place itself is family-tree-entered, not a primary record. Conflicts with the report's 'Virginia Or West Virginia'. Birthplace remains uncertain and needs a primary source (census birthplace field or death record).
Sarah Clark 1801–1891 children likely
Report includes Malinda French and Nancy French
Records Memorial does not list Malinda or Nancy; it adds Bethuel French (1820-1904) and Elijah French (1825-1896)
The memorial's child list omits Malinda and Nancy (in the report) and adds Bethuel and Elijah (not in the report). Neither source is exhaustive; Malinda/Nancy may have died young or lack linked memorials, and the two added sons are unverified leads. Six other children match across both sources.
Iver Olsen b. 1801 birth year likely
Report 1801
Records 1802 (census-calculated; age 64 at 31 Dec 1865)
One-year difference typical of calculated census ages; not a material conflict. The report's 1801 is plausibly correct.
Iver Olsen b. 1801 birth place unconfirmed
Report Implied Vågå — father Ole Hansen lived on Prestigards-Vangen (Vågå prestegard) and 'this family lived there for several years'
Records 1865 census gives Iver's birthplace as 'Søndre Froens Prgj.' (Sør-Fron parish)
Possible conflict, NOT resolved from sources consulted. Important caveat: the direct census fetch shows that ALL six members of the Haverstad household (including wife Ragnild and son Ole) are recorded with birthplace 'Søndre Froens Prgj.' This blanket uniformity is a known census weak point and may reflect parish of residence rather than each person's actual birthplace. A Vågå or Sør-Fron baptism record (c. 1801) is needed to settle Iver's true birthplace.
Aaron Jerome Ball b. 1800 birth.date likely
Report 1800
Records 1803-02-20
The family report gives a birth year of 1800; the genealogical databases (WikiTree, sourced to FindAGrave) give 20 February 1803 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The 3-year difference is unresolved. The Buffalo, Erie County birthplace is itself uncorroborated and inconsistent with the father's Massachusetts origin and the report's general placement of the children's births in New York; an original record is needed. Verified directly on WikiTree Ball-17249.
Aaron Jerome Ball b. 1800 death likely
Report (none in report)
Records 1863-10-11, Millville, Shasta County, California
The report records no death information. WikiTree adds a death of 11 October 1863 in Millville, Shasta County, California, cited only to FindAGrave Memorial #29409387 (not independently verified — Aaron has no findable own memorial). Caution: Aaron's father Marmaduke also died in 1863, so the two 1863 deaths must not be conflated.
James Whitley b. 1800 mother.birthPlace likely
Report Margaret Hagerman (1771-1845), no place
Records Margaret Hagerman born 28 May 1771 in Dutchess, New York Colony; died abt 1845
Adds detail to the mother already in the report (dates match: 1771-1845). Not a conflict. The birthplace 'Dutchess, New York Colony' is shown directly on James's WikiTree profile; the death of 'abt 1845' has no recorded place beyond Ontario. No primary record cited, so kept at 'likely.'