On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 2:28:11 PM UTC-7, Paulo Canedo wrote: > Em segunda-feira, 28 de agosto de 2017 22:10:32 UTC+1, wjhonson escreveu: > > On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 1:56:54 PM UTC-7, Paulo Canedo wrote: > > > Em segunda-feira, 28 de agosto de 2017 21:28:44 UTC+1, pbgo...@gmail.com escreveu: > > > > A detailed study performed by genealogists on the staff of the College of Arms in London, England in March of 2014 has pretty much disproved any direct connection between Thomas Barnum and Sir Francis Barnham. > > > > > > The details of the study you mentioned are in http://www.barnum.org/nti00001.htm. > > > > It's slightly odd and hyper-focused that this "detailed study" included only a look into the father's will and then ... full stop. > > > > Not a particularly detailed study in my mind. > > They also looked at a document involving Robert Barnham and at parish records for the baptism of Thomas Barnum. A "detailed study" looking only at ancestors, is the field of amateurs.