Linking two individuals with a generation gap between them

Question

I have good reason to believe that

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DuBois-1416

was a direct ancestor of

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woods-18305

but more than two centuries separate them. Is there a way to document this connection?

Comments

I have similar issue.

DNA found that my blood Grandfather was not who brought up my Father.

I know now via DNA that my Father's Father was one of a few brothers, which one I can guess but will never know for sure.

I know who was his Grandparents are though.

So at present I have linked to the most likely brother with the same first names and my Father.  But is it so?

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This is a challenging situation that many among us have encountered. There is no easy way around it in a data structure that connects each person to no more than one father and one mother, and does not provide for fuzzy connections. Maybe someone will devise a new kind of structure that allows family trees to skip across a parent generation to get from a child to a known grandparent.

In WikiTree you can use the text section of the profile to discuss the situation, and link to the profiles of identified relatives who cannot be connected as immediate family.

Answer 1

Hello Ron.

You could add a "Research Notes" section to Woods-18305.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Research_Notes

Explain why you think he is descended from DuBois-1416. Hopefully, future research can find out the connection.