Watch those assumptions
Needing a tangent this week, I decided to take a couple of hours and seriously look at my 4th great-grandfather. Francis or "Frank" W. Carey was born in 1826 in Richland County, Ohio, with Pennsylvania-born parents. He moved as a young child to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He married his wife Sarah Lee in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania in 1851. They soon moved to Jasper County, Iowa, where he lived the remainder of his life. They were the parents of two daughters, Adelaide and Elizabeth (born 1860 and 1862). For many years, I have had no parents listed for him. He is included in some family trees as the son of Nathan Carey and Sarah Ann Day. That linked tree in the last sentence belongs to my mom. She's attached a decent amount of sources for Frank, but nothing that specifically links him to his supposed parents. In reality, I think this is where he belongs. My mother and her brother have DNA matches that all point to this conclusion. But, I was just looking for more evide
