Hi Tom and list,
I don't know the answer to your problem but I can understand your
frustration. In February 1993, the local LDS Church opened a Family
History Center here in Hot Springs,AR. I went out to take advantage of
it and immediately found information that said my Leonard Cagle was the
son of John, son of David. I contacted the submitter and satisfied
myself that it was good data. Last year in e-mail correspondence with a
gentleman in Alaska who descends from another Leonard Cagle I discovered
that the info I considered as correct was INCORRECT. The man who put the
info out on LDS had taken the families of Leonard son of John and
Leonard son of Charles and combined them into one large family. Leonard
son of John died in 1845 in Missouri, David the man from Alaski pointed
out to me that Leonard father of Jacob, Joseph, John Fullbright,
Benjamin F and Lydia was very much alive in 1850 in Chatooga Co GA.
Although I didn't start the story on the combined Leonard families, I
did help spread it.
I believe it stems from a desire to fill out a chart. I recently was
sent some Beauchamp/Cagle info. It looked very familiar, further
research proved it was my information so it would be familiar. A distant
cousin got it from me and started changing things. He informed me that I
didn't know how to spell my father and brother's names. There is not
much we can do except grin and bare it, someday the truth will win out.
Have a good day.
Gary