As if we didn't have enough junk genealogy out there, now we have to deal with Wikipedia. This is allegedly an on-line encyclopaedia and information database. The problem is it open for all to enter and edit. I stumbled on this while looking for something else. I found this under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wells_(general) (actually under the cache - "Hugh Wells, a descendant of an old English family, was born about 1590 in the county of Essex, England. he was married in 1619, and emigrated to America in 1635. He remained in Boston for a time, and subsequently aided in founding a colony in Hartford, Connecticut. He died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1645. Thomas Wells, the first child of Hugh Wells, was born in Colchester, England, in 1860, and was taken with his parents, in 1635, to America. " Now the good part is this: If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it. Which gives people with facts the ability to get in and correct this sort of garbage. Turns out this page has already been edited and the ancestry stripped. But it will remain in google cache for a very long time. There is also an endless log of people who have done things to an article. Trying to find who they are is another issue. A clue on this is the following note: "I own the website that the material was taken from, and as indicated in the resubmission (hopefully in a proper format), the material is in the public domain as written. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vermontcivilwar>Green Mountain Sailor 12:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC) " I am unable to identify this person or website, but someone needs to help them understand that Hugh Welles is a wrong ancestor here. Anyone interested in this General William Wells might find the following article interesting. There is a statue of the man in Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont AND apparently at Gettysburg. http://www.vermonthistory.org/journal/73/06_Cross.pdf Apparently he received more promotions than any other civil war soldier from Vermont rising from private to brevet Major General in 4 years. There is a photo of William Wells in this article. I keep telling myself that we need to put together a web page with all the Wells generals. Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb