User talk:Genaology guy

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Happy editing! Cheers, –CaroleHenson (talk) 15:44, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nancy Lincoln article[edit]

I am a little confused. Are you reading my replies on Talk:Nancy Lincoln?

Wikipedia is not a generator of news WP:NOTNEWS
Wikipedia doesn't use emails, phone conversations, etc. as sources. What is needed are reliable WP:Secondary sources, such as books, scholarly articles, newspapers.
I haven't been quite as clear on the point that for an Abraham Lincoln article, it is best to get content from the most well-respected Lincoln historians. Like I said, I want to look at recent works by Donald and Burlingame (and perhaps Childs, I am not familiar with them)

Right now - the Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage article is now essentially a redirect that talked about all the theories. I have updated the Nancy Lincoln article re: maternal grandmother = Lucy\Lucey Hanks. I would think that would have gotten us most of the way there, but as I said, I am going to try to find more reliable sources.

I will look into the circuit court visit info and the book you cited here.

I don't intend to move the conversation here. I am just trying to ensure that I am clear, because you continue to say that there are people who can verify the information. That's not how things work at Wikipedia.

Thanks for hanging-in-there with me. I hope you like where we are headed.––CaroleHenson (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you for everything. Nothing is cut and dried when it comes to the Lincoln/Hanks families. They were rather obscure back woods people. I have been studying my Hanks Family history for most of my life ( I'm 72 years old ) and it is an elusive search and there is still much that is not and may never be known however the DNA research being done in my opinion as in so many other areas has opened up many new avenues of thought and has helped shed new light on an otherwise dark subject. I certainly appreciate all that you have done to help me to get where I wanted to go as this has been a new experience of investigative procedure for me. One of those live and learn moments in life. Genaology guy (talk) 19:16, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. Thank you for bringing up the topic!–CaroleHenson (talk) 22:32, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Carole,I just noticed in the new Wikipedia article entitled 'Nancy Lincoln' in the Early life and Education section it states that Nancy's mother was the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hanks and it should instead read that Nancy was the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hanks who later married Henry Sparrow in 1790 in Mercer County Kentucky. Genaology guy (talk) 15:09, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Thanks for catching that! Fixed.–CaroleHenson (talk) 16:17, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]