Moses Mann - reportedly married a Scott daughter - where did that information come from

Question

My great grandfather was Moses Mann born 1801.  His will listed two nephews, both children of John Mann.  However, John Mann's will did not list Moses Mann as an heir.  Moses was however the administrator of his will.  I saw in WikiTree that someone added a marriage to a Scott daughter.  I know that John Gibson Mann married a daughter of Archibald Scott, but I did not know he'd married a different Scott daughter!.  I have an extensive tree on Family Search.  I'm interested to know where the information about his first marriage came from.  (my grandmother was a child of his second marriage).

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Carol refers to this profile:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mann-6372

Answer 1

Since there are lots of Ancestry sources listed, I would guess it came from ancestry.com. Their marriage data relies heavily on Yates Publishing, one of the first places to publish genealogy data online. If you really want to get to the bottom of the source, you can purchase family group sheets directly from Yates Publishing and you'll get a PDF of various submissions for that family name. It's how I traced the marriages of George Breazeale https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Breazeale-69 back to just one contributor who didn't cite primary sources.