Methodology · The Reports Behind the Genealogy
Every claim on this site is anchored to a report below. These are the audits behind the genealogy: read-only verification passes against FamilySearch and published scholarship, the gateway cross-references, the edge-sourcing roadmap, and the per-link breakdowns of the disputed chains. Each report is browsable here and downloadable as raw markdown.
A read-only verification and relabel of the archive against FamilySearch and published genealogical scholarship.
Read-only crawl of source data at /FlightKit/wikitree-wiki.
Read-only delta over 01-inventory.json.
Read-only verification against the FamilySearch beta Family Tree API (apibeta.familysearch.org).
Token-free. No FamilySearch API. No site changes. Read-only over 01-inventory.v2.json. Generated 2026-05-28.
Phase J of the 2026 audit. The FamilySearch verification (02-fs-verification.json) found that no parent-child edge is sourced at the FamilySearch relationship-conclusion level, every edge is FS-Tre...
2026-05-30. Applies the framework used for the Westcott/Plantagenet royal claim (2026 relabel plus basement demotion) to the Coffin "Norman knight / Battle of Hastings 1066 / Portledge" chain. Read...
2026-05-30. The basement already labels the entire pre-1592 Westcott to Plantagenet chain "Traditional, Disputed" in aggregate, citing ten sources on the load-bearing colonial splice. This pass bre...
2026-05-30. The archive's "Cromwell Connection" narrative compresses two separate 17th-century events into a single "one man drove both sides of the family" story. This pass separates them, dates t...