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How do I know? Well, his ten older siblings were all born, like their parents, in Plymouth Colony, and most died there. Whereas William, whether he’s ours or not, is recorded (in FSFT) as born in northern Ireland and died in Pennsylvania. After all the Pilgrims went through to leave the Old World and set up their new homes in the New, it’s implausible in the extreme that these Dunbars would return to Ireland to give birth to their caboose child.
Moreover, the only fifth-generation William Dunbar listed in the General Society’s “Silver Books”* as a Richard Warren descendant was born in 1754. No, I fear that the nice people at FamilySearch have fallen victim to their own openness and catholicity: Anybody with a computer can put anything he chooses into the FamilySearch Family Tree. We contributors are encouraged to source our assertions carefully, but nothing in the procedures of FamilySearch prevents an amateur genealogist or one who aspires to prominent ancestry from inventing his own version of the past. And if you correct a cherished error of mine, I’m, alas, at liberty to go back in and correct your correction, without obvious limit. |
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