{"id":29626,"date":"2013-11-11T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29626"},"modified":"2013-11-11T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:39:23","slug":"salt-lake-christmas-tour-weeks-peek-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29626","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake Christmas Tour&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Week&#8217;s Peek"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div id=\"treeCardDivWrapper\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<section id=\"pCardDiv\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"ctl42_ctl00_pImg\"><\/td>\n<td id=\"ctl42_ctl00_PersonData\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">\n<dl>\n<dt>\n<h1>John Smith<\/h1>\n<\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>Birth\u00a0<\/dd>\n<dd id=\"personProfileDeathDetails\">Death\u00a0<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div id=\"addPerson\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div id=\"ctl43_m_columnLeft\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"ctl43_ctl13_rptEvents_ctl01_eventItem\">\n<table id=\"ctl43_ctl13_rptEvents_ctl01_eventDetails\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<dl>\n<dt><a id=\"ctl43_ctl13_rptEvents_ctl01_a_title\" href=\"http:\/\/trees.ancestry.com\/tree\/26559821\/person\/13555078328\/fact\/82656230096\">Marriage to POCAHONTAS\/Matoaka Amonute\/Little Snow Feather\/Playful &#8220;Rebecca&#8221; Powhatan<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>168017 Feb<\/dd>\n<dd><a id=\"ctl43_ctl13_rptEvents_ctl01_a_placelnk\" href=\"http:\/\/places.ancestry.com\/index.aspx?tid=26559821&amp;pid=13555078328&amp;eid=82656230096\">Gloucester Co., Virginia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><button id=\"sourceCitationDivLnk0\" type=\"button\">1 source citation<\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl43_m_columnRight\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"spouseAndChildrenSection\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mediasvc.ancestry.com\/image\/803f818f-4442-4330-a1db-de6bde875213.jpg?Client=Trees&amp;NamespaceID=1093&amp;MaxSide=32\" \/><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/trees.ancestry.com\/tree\/26559821\/person\/13554255420\">POCAHONTAS\/Matoaka A S F &#8221; Powhatan<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd><small>1595\u00a0\u2013\u00a01617<\/small><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><button id=\"person_13554255420\" type=\"button\"><\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>With a big bunch of us going shortly to Salt Lake to spend a wonderful research week in the Family History Library, I thought it might be a good time to bring up a point: THERE IS A LOT OF FOOLISHNESS TO BE FOUND&#8230;&#8230; as well as lots of &#8220;good stuff.&#8217; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I copied the above from a tree on Ancestry&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. there is even a source citation! Only problem is that Pocahontas did NOT NOT NOT marry John Smith, she married John Rolfe. (The citation looks funny because I deleted out all the extras, and the poster&#8217;s name, from the tree.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And the really bad news is that there are multiple trees including the John Smith-Pocahontas marriage! (Don&#8217;t these people stop to think??)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As we ready our notes for some serious research, please commit yourself to have documentation for every fact you find, no matter where you find it. Especially on Ancestry&#8217;s Trees or FamilySeach&#8217;s Trees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Suggest you review the advice given in Proverbs 14:24: &#8220;the foolishess of fools is folly.&#8221; And Proverbs 15:2: \u00a0&#8220;the mouth of fools poureth our foolishness.&#8221; \u00a0Plan not to be among the foolish making incorrect additions to your family tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Donna, aka Mother Hen, until next peek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Smith Birth\u00a0 Death\u00a0 Marriage to POCAHONTAS\/Matoaka Amonute\/Little Snow Feather\/Playful &#8220;Rebecca&#8221; Powhatan 168017 Feb Gloucester Co., Virginia 1 source citation POCAHONTAS\/Matoaka A S F &#8221; Powhatan 1595\u00a0\u2013\u00a01617 With a big bunch of us going shortly to Salt Lake to spend <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29626\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Salt Lake Christmas Tour&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Week&#8217;s Peek<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salt-lake-christmas-tour-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29627,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626\/revisions\/29627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}