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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