Research Log · Workshop · Updated April 2026

Research in Progress — Basement

What is the Basement?

The Basement. Every research archive has one. This is ours — the room where claims live while they’re being checked, challenged, or reconsidered. Things land here for three reasons: (1) we thought one thing and now we’re re-confirming, (2) a family member passed down a story we haven’t sourced yet, or (3) the paper trail went cold and we’re waiting on a primary source or probe. Nothing in the basement is wrong. Nothing is thrown out. It’s a living project’s honest shelf — content with a status, not a verdict. Some of what’s down here will move upstairs with full GREEN sourcing. Some will stay for years. Some will be reclassified once better records surface. A few may get quietly retired when contradicting evidence settles the question. If you’re researching your own family and finding the same kind of contradictions, welcome — that’s what real genealogy looks like.

Confidence Tiers

●Green — Verified. Primary sources and identifier codes locate this ancestor on a documented chain.
●Green — Inherited Evidence. Documented through a family-archive photograph, period-labeled portrait, family paper, or heirloom with attribution. Primary-source standing, equal to Verified.
●Amber — Partial sourcing. Some records exist but the chain has gaps, disputed parentage, or secondary-only sources.
●Red — Speculative / traditional. Traditional genealogy, family lore, or no primary sources. Should not appear on a line page until verified.

Tiers map to the confidence keys on AncestorTable placards: verified, inherited, sourced, tradition.

Research Track

Unsourced British Gentry

Three names carried on the British, Scottish & Welsh Gentry page lack primary-source documentation on the direct chain. They remain here pending verification. Research is ongoing.

Name	Born	PID	Relationship
●Sir Henry Maynard	1547	PS5C-88J	Claimed ~11th great-grandfather — secretary to Lord Burghley, advisor to Elizabeth I. No FS primary-source chain to our line.
●Sir Angus Brown	1563	G32W-3ZT	Claimed ~12th great-grandfather, Scotland. No FS primary-source chain to our line.
●Sir George Perient	1540	KCBC-92T	Claimed ~12th great-grandfather. No FS primary-source chain to our line.

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Broken PIDs

Identifier codes cited on archive pages that no longer resolve to a primary-source record. Kept here so the original reference is not lost; awaiting replacement identifier or confirmation the record was deleted.

Name	Born	PID	Relationship
●Capt. Nathaniel Coffin (resolved — see note)	1671	LZN4-BJG	Resolved by batch 8 (2026-04-18). The archive previously cited L542-FYN (404 on FS). The live record for Capt. Nathaniel Coffin (1671–1721), son of James Coffin and father of Benjamin Coffin 1705, is PID LZN4-BJG — found via /platform/tree/persons/9VWJ-WHJ/children, 22 FS sources. Archive references to L542-FYN have been updated. Kept here only as a historical record of the broken-PID resolution.

Each name links to its primary-source record via its identifier. What’s missing is not the person — it’s the chain of descent from that person to a verified ancestor on one of our documented lines.

Research Track

Other Research Tracks

Name	Born	PID	Relationship
●Ellen Margaret Coogan	1891	LD3Y-XM7	Theory under investigation: may be “Nellie Coogan” (DNA-match family-member report) — Raymond Edward Coogan’s older sister, died at age 26. No primary sources confirmed. See the Coogan page for detail.

Back to the Coogan line for the Nellie theory in context.