Who is Sarah Parker

Question

I've been chasing Sarah Parkers today.  In Groton Mass, using Vital Records, there are 23 of them born (1705-1806), 1 death and 8 marriages - where did the rest of them go?

Two of them are back to back [[Parker-34099|Sarah Parker]] b 1725 and a Sarah born in April 1726 (not on Wikitree, but the daughter of [[Parker-4832|John Parker]] and [[Wainwright-220|Mary Bradstreet]]) one of them married [[Tarbell-362|John Tarbell]] and there are conflicting accounts as to which is which. WHMA uses the word "probably" while Green (in "Epitaths") connects the headstone to the 1725 Sarah, but then attaches her husbands headstone to the 1726 Sarah.

Meanwhile, the [[Parker-14759|Sarah]] I've been trying to unearth is married to two overlapping fellows. I think I've figured out one of them (notes left on [[Coolidge-422|Nathaniel Coolidge]]) but the other [[Parker-14759|Sarah]] eludes me. Of note is that she marries Hobart as "Mrs" Parker - implying that it is a second marriage and "Parker" is not her LNAB.

Family Search is useless - they seem to conflate one or more of these Sarahs and have her give birth to 26 children in a 20 year span, with a gestation period of 3-4 months for most of them. (This is the one married to Nathaniel Coolidge - who when you search becomes Obadiah Coolidge https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K23X-6ZR)

Given the nature of this confusion, I have refrained from doing more than leaving comments.

I don't know that I have a question, I feel like throwing the ball up in the air and walking away.

Comments

Since writing this, I've re-read it a dozen times at least. I'll go back tomorrow and turn my comments into research notes.

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Hi Jack, I understand your frustration, it happens to all of us from time to time.  Do what I do and take a break, go do something else, scrub the kitchen floor, bake some cookies, go for a walk, watch a movie, clean the bathroom, eat some ice cream, have a drink, raid the fridge.  Genealogy can be such fun, can't it!

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lol, drinking a milkshake right now.

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A milkshake is good!  I prefer chocolate, how about you?  What's next - scrub the kitchen floor or clean the bathroom??  C'mon you can do this.  And laughing is the best thing.  lol lol

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This has largely been addressed, the three Sarahs each now have a Research Note indicating who is who. There remains a fresh merge request as the Sarah in question with the husband needs to be merged with the Sarah who has the parents.