Well yes Frances, I'm stumped! I do not know which way to go. My way of verifying is to try and get the evidence via familysearch and the original document (if it has hopefully been scanned), or go to family history societies. I really do not know who the wife of John Taubman is, and the mother of Thomas - my children's 9th Gt grandfather. I do not follow willynilly the other researchers - did that in my earlier days and followed the wrong family - and all because they had the birth certs of my grandmother and her sisters! I now do my own in-depth research and continually check, check, and check again.