Brick Wall help please
Good morning, i hope you are all having a beautiful day. I was hoping to ask for help or advice. I love genealogy, but it’s just a hobby and i haven’t taken any classes. I started it because I don’t know most my biological family and I was curious. My grandmother, grandfather and I all took the ancestry test a few years back for Christmas. It came back with no native American, which surprised me because people swear we have some.
The individual I’m having trouble with in my family tree is my 7th great grandmother. Allegedly she was the daughter of a Chief Cornstalk. The problem I’m running into is there are actual books that mention his genealogy and my other relatives are not in it. I don’t believe we are related.
It’s hard because I have some great examples on some good hobby and professional genealogists (my grandmother‘s hobby, my cousin went to school for this) and they‘ve been doing this a lot longer than I have and they swear 100% without a doubt we are related. I’m doubting myself. It’s a hobby, but I want to get it right.
What would be the proper response to this? As far as I can tell there is no evidence that this individual was related. I know he existed. I got in trouble for wanting to take these individuals out of my family tree because I was disrespectful and thought i knew more than them (I didn’t mean to make anybody feel like that I just don’t see any evidence)
In these situations, what do you do? Because I’m at a loss on to keep them because they’re so sure we’re very distantly related or remove it completely because I can’t find the evidence. This has caused unnecessary tension these past few days. I know I won’t always get it right, but I will always do my best. I got to meet so many people I’d never have the opportunity to if i hadn’t gotten into it. I met my biological mother. Things that could never have happened if i didn’t try to figure out where they were (this is not an adoption situition, it’s a foster care one. I don’t want anyone think I was disrespecting her wishes she asked me too in a letter she left when i was too young to read it.
I’m sorry for going off topic please give me grace. this is just so frustrating to me and again I know I won’t get it right all the time, but i really do do my best and i don’t know how to go about it. I do hope that’s not common sense because that would be embarrassing.