I'm sure this happens in all walks of life.  I bet you have even heard of
someone taking over another persons identity.  That certainly does not mean
that it is  a common occurrence not neglect on any organizations part.

Faye
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Cooper 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Unacceptable sources per Colonial Dames XVII Century


This is a perfect example of what I was referring to, I know a person
>who used a person as her ancestor, and his son, and his son as the
>progenitors
>of her. They are well documented in acceptable sources.  She
>was accepted into the Colonial Dames...  Now It was discovered she was not
a
>descendants of these people at all...... She had found identical names of a
>different
>line of people in two different states.
>
>Margaret B Miller wrote:
>
 Fay, you were one of the lucky ones to have had your application so
 closely monitored. There is at least one generation about which I have
 serious reservations that links me to the ancestor on whose service I
 entered and I now know, positively, that the Dames have accepted
 supplements from me with incorrect information. I am NOT a descendant of
 Lawrence Wilkinson who came to RI ca 1650 but rather of one John
 WILKINSON who came to this country ca 1732. John was in PA, not RI.

 I will be happy to have my supplements "pulled." My main concerns are
 that the inaccuracies are corrected and the incorrect data is no longer
 acceptable. Maybe the XVII Century Colonial Dames will add the book
 compiled by M. M. Wilkinson to their unacceptable sources!!!!!!! I do
 hope so.

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