Parentage of John and Priscilla Thurber

Question

I was looking at the profile of John Thurber

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thurber-82  

and was surprised to see father James Thurber listed,

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thurber-81

 since I know of no birth record for John, nor even an old genealogical compilation that lists his parentage.  It is also surprising since people took the time to write a nice biography of John, giving no mention of the father's name, yet James is still connected.  

James's bio is just an ugly GEDCOM import.  Is there a genealogical source for the father James?

Answer 1

Hello Barry, Have you discussed this with the profile manager? It looks as though the profile for James is the result of a merge which has not been cleaned up properly. The profile for John still has an unsourced template on it. Perhaps you could offer to help the profile manager in tidying up both of them and resolving the question of parentage.

Comments

No, I'll send a message.  But I'm no expert on Thurbers, so I won't have much to contribute here.  Since the James profile has been around even longer than the John profile, I'm surprised it wasn't cleaned up long ago.  I don't know how you clean up -- just disconnect the father and then completely repurpose it as a new "Thurber" profile?

The unsourced template is there AFAIK only because the birthplace is listed, while there is controversy over whether this birthplace is correct.

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Thanks for the best answer star Barry.