Methodology · The Reports Behind the Genealogy
Every claim on this site is anchored to a report below. These are the audits behind the genealogy: read-only verification passes against FamilySearch and published scholarship, the gateway cross-references, the edge-sourcing roadmap, and the per-link breakdowns of the disputed chains. Each report is browsable here and downloadable as raw markdown.
Foundational 2026 audit: 366 PIDs resolved, edges tiered, royal descent relocated to the basement, four Mayflower gateways confirmed.
Pass 1: inventory of every named ancestor and FamilySearch PID across the archive.
Pass 2 delta: parent-child chain linkage inventory.
Pass 2: FamilySearch verification, source classification per person and per parent-child edge.
Pass 3: gateway-ancestor cross-reference against accepted gateway scholarship.
Pass 4: edge-sourcing roadmap; 12 of 91 edges upgraded to Sourced with non-FamilySearch authorities.
Pass 5: documented Coffin Devon line anchored on Vivian from the reign of Henry II; the 1066 origin relocated to the basement.
Pass 6: ten-source (1886 to 2026) link-by-link breakdown of the Westcott-Plantagenet chain; the claim relocated to the basement.
Pass 7: distinguished the English Civil War Coffin departure (1640s) from the Cromwellian O’Long confiscation in Cork (1654).