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It’s been a productive week for me in the world of genealogy. First and foremost, I finished writing the chapter on the family of Gabriel Cox and Nancy Squires. I documented the last two daughters and put together what I hope is a coherent and cohesive argument for John S Cox to be Gabe and Nancy’s son. I do need to look up a few Indiana marriage records to complete citations at the library next weekend. I’ll let it meld and marinate for a while, then revisit it for possible revisions. I will continue to search for documents periodically on this family to hopefully add more about their lives.

Moving on! The next family unit to research is Gabriel’s parents Benjamin Cox and Sarah Piety. My first task is to attempt to resolve the DNA matches I have tagged for this couple. There were a dozen or so when I pulled up the list. So far I have been successful in connecting two of them.

  • P.H. – The algorithm tries to connect this individual through a Nancy Cox to Ben and Sarah. I am not aware of them having a daughter named Nancy, let alone one that was born in Maryland. Nancy may be a descendant of Isaac Cox (Ben’s father) or one of his brothers.
  • L.D. – The algorithm has misidentified the Albert Cox in this match’s line to a grandson of Ben and Sarah. The Albert Cox belonging to L.D. resided in Pike County, Indiana, whereas my Albert Cox did not. The Albert in question may descend down a different line from Ben or from one of his brothers.
  • M.H. – When I originally tagged this one, the algorithm suggested that Ben and Sarah were the common ancestors. That assertion has been removed. I will leave it tagged for Ben and Sarah for now, but this one could be a hard one to sort out. The match’s mother was involved in a bit of dramatic scandal as a baby so parentage is questionable.
  • K.P. – This is another match that was originally attributed to Ben and Sarah but no longer are. I’ll definitely monitor the situation.
  • M.C. – This match also was previously tied to Ben and Sarah. I did note that she was descended from a step-granddaughter of Ben and Sarah when I first tried to resolve the match. We don’t have any shared matches which is concerning for me.

I still have five matches to work through this week before I start reviewing the data I already have on Ben and start collecting as much detail as I can on my 5th great grandfather.

This week Ancestry gave me three new errors to resolve. I have 5275 errors in the tree–376 possible duplicates, 4294 with no documents, 607 other errors.

  • A 5th cousin 1x removed needed some documentation. She’s a cousin down my Ireland line which I haven’t worked on in a long time.
  • A 5th cousin also needed to be documented. For whatever reason, I listed her last name as her mother’s maiden name in error. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any documents for her.
  • The spouse of a 3rd cousin 2x removed was undocumented. He had several references to update his record with.

This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines which will occur during the week ahead.
316 years ago – marriage of Jacques Duguay (8th ggf) to his second wife Anne Baillargeon
145 years ago – death of Robert C. Thompson (3rd ggf)

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,769 people
End of Week: 27,829 people
Change = +60 person
Tasks for coming week:

  • Document retrieval at FamilySearch Affiliate Library
  • Resolve remaining Ben Cox DNA matches
  • Start data mining on Ben Cox