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Using GEDMiner for Genealogy Errors

21 Sunday Jun 2026

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Follow-up on Pierre Vachet marriage record

Indiana Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993, Parish Registers, J-Z, Film # 004013147, image 512, FamilySearch.

The St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (Old Cathedral) register clearly lists two men with the name Pierre Vachet with the identities of their parents. The marriage to Felicite Lacoste is attached to that of the younger Pierre. Issue resolved. Also of note, is two Felicite Lacoste dit Languedoc born in the same year to different parents. The Old Cathedral records will be instrumental when it comes time to research my early Knox County ancestors on my mother’s side.

Indiana Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993, Parish Registers, J-Z, Film # 004013147, image 57, FamilySearch.

Continuing Research on Benjamin Cox descendants from Montgomery County, Ohio

I am continuing my research on William Taylor’s descendants. As I finish this week’s research, I finally wrap up Amanda’s children and can move on to another family next week. William and Mary’s son Owen died as a small child so I will continue with their daughter Millie Taylor.

  • Jesse Cox + Mary Waugh > John Cox + Mary Parks > Louisa Cox + David Taylor > William F Taylor + Mary Lucy Pearson
    • Taylor
    • Babb
      • Kentucky: Madison, Estill
    • Brunner
      • Ohio: Butler, Preble
    • Woosley
      • Kentucky: Estill, Clark
    • Madden
      • Kentucky: Madison

Error Resolution

A hot topic right now is the tool GEDMiner.com. I tried this out this week and it is massive and it is FREE. I dropped my GEDCOM file in and it quickly analyzed my 28,000 people. A rather lengthy but useful video presentation by GeneaVlogger giving an overview of how to use it can be found on YouTube: GEDMiner tutorial.

The last available update via Ancestry ProTools: I have 5047 errors in the tree–527 possible duplicates, 4069 with no documents, 451 other errors.

According to GEDMiner, I have 45 possible duplicates. That’s quite a difference from Ancestry’s count. Some of them were legitimate duplicates. A lot of them could be attributed to how I enter women when I don’t know their maiden names. Many of them are mothers-in-law of distant cousins. I have been making a point of pruning them from the tree. I’m going to focus on “duplicates” this week. Next week I’ll start on unlinked individuals. That list is a bit longer.

My Ancestry error resolutions this week included:

  • a husband of a distant cousin needing a source record. A marriage record was available to fill this void.
  • a 5th great grandfather needing a source record. Unfortunately, I will not be able to fulfill this request since German records are restricted in the Ancestry. I will add a German tag to his record for future reference.
  • a distant cousin needing a source record. Luckily she was born pre-1950 and I was able to add that as a reference.

Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 28,003 people
End of Week: 27,534 people
Change = -469 persons
Tasks for coming week:

  • Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
  • Review Coxes of Cox Creek
  • Run newspaper search, especially for articles recounting local history
  • Review the Cox package of information from Sweden
  • Look for documents in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky

Sarah Catherine Rogers & Richard Bennett revisited

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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As I was making one last check of everyone associated with my Fielden line, I noticed that Ancestry had provided me with more potential data on Sarah Catherine Rogers.  One source, a memorial for Sarah Rogers on findagrave.com blew a whole in my findings for June Bennett Fielden’s parentage.

First, the memorial for Sarah doesn’t mention a daughter named June Bennett.   Then I finally found the 1880 census records for Richard Bennett and his first wife Mary Jane Briscoe.  It’s highly unlikely that Mary Jane died, Richard married Sarah and had June all in a year.  Sarah was a widow in 1880, listed as Sarah Brown.  The newspaper article about Richard listed her as Sarah Catherine (Rogers) Maddox so somewhere during 1881 she had to have been married to a Maddox fellow as well.  Not very realistic.

The memorial on Find A Grave also lists her Maddox husband as Daniel Maddox who died in 1896.  Not a lot of divorces back then, so that meant she probably didn’t marry Richard Bennett until after 1896.  The newspaper article stated that Richard died in 1897, so that would mean that they weren’t married for long.

On top of all that, the 1880 census data indicated that Richard was born in 1846, not 1810.  This was confirmed further in the Kentucky Death Records database which also provided a date of death in 1901, not 1897.  This date of death was also confirmed by the database for Headstones Provided for Deceased Union the Civil War Veterans.  This, in conjunction with a 1900 census entry for Richard and Sarah made the 1898 marriage record for them more believable.

Based on all this, June Bennett’s mother is not Sarah Catherine Rogers, but Mary Jane Briscoe.  Moral of this story:  Don’t make random assumptions, and don’t always believe what you read in the newspaper, or on the internet.