{"id":1744,"date":"2014-08-31T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:53:19","slug":"presidential-cousin-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Presidential cousin&#8230; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was exploring the tree of my 13 x great grandfather, Sir Thomas Adams, Lord Mayor of London, trying to see if there was a connection between his tree and the tree of that other famous Adams man, John Adams, the second president of the United States.  Just browsing through several trees online <a href=\"http:\/\/wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/cgi-bin\/igm.cgi?op=GET&#038;db=norvan&#038;id=I70904\">like this one<\/a>, a connection emerges easily enough: Sir Thomas Adams&#8217;s grandfather, Randall Adams, was brother to a Henry Adams, the 4 x great grandfather of John Adams the president.  That would make distant cousins of us.<\/p>\n<p>But wait.<\/p>\n<p>Something doesn&#8217;t look right in this tree.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Adams was born and died in Wem, Shropshire, while his father and brothers were born and died in Barton St David, Somerset?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.  I&#8217;m not so sure Randall Adams actually belongs in this family.  Although the dates are believable, I couldn&#8217;t find any evidence that Randall&#8217;s father made a brief visit to Wem and left a son there.  And these trees have no resources to back up the connection other than private emails.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to find any trace of Randall&#8217;s true parentage, so they may be lost to the mysteries of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was exploring the tree of my 13 x great grandfather, Sir Thomas Adams, Lord Mayor of London, trying to see if there was a connection between his tree and the tree of that other famous Adams man, John Adams, the second president of the United States. Just browsing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-s8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}