Doctor Grandma

Family history on the Blacks:

 

It goes from Earl Black to Fremont Black, to John Young Black, the guy who loved Arkansas. Then it gets tricky. There are 2 sets of people on ancestry.com who have 2 different fathers for John Y Black. One says his name was John Hugh Black. One says “John Jr. Black” which means there is yet ANOTHER John BLack who is the father of John Jr.

 

Part of the PROBLEM with ANCESTRY.COM is that people are stupid & lazy and copy each other’s results, without really checking the dates & details. So you get a message saying “8 family trees say this” and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just people copying other people’s BS.

 

John Hugh Black dies in Missouri. John Jr. dies in Kansas. It is very hard to unravel these mix ups because a lot of the records just state “John Black”………..  So I could spend days unraveling this mystery. And it may not even get unraveled. Both John Hugh and John Jr. are said to be born in Virginia, around 1801. The records are mixed up. The KEY, I guess, are the census records and who was in their households (as children, etc.). But even those, when you get back that far, can be very bleak. One census around 1840 just lists # of people in household.