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Hi again Daphne,

I don't know what sources you have, I'm just going on what I see on the  Familysearch website.  You say that you have confirmed his mother and father - that is a good and positive step,

As far as I can see there's no birth record for William Dayton Douglas on FS, a birth record would be helpful provided it was the correct one, instead FS indicates his father was a James Studebaker Douglas who was born in Ohio in 1818 (but no source to confirm this relationship & this also goes against  the census entries where William records that his father was born in England), Also in the late 1800s census entries for James Studebaker there is no mention of a   William Dayton Douglas,

I also checked a few people way back in the family and saw discrepancies along the way - people with no source info etc.

If you don't get the right father & mother then all subsequent ancestral records  have no value

Best regards

Hi Daphne,

There is an entry on the FamilySearch website for your relative:

William Dayton Douglas 1858–1926    Familysearch ID 9WM9-246

However, the ancestors indicated in the FS family line for William appear to be erroneous.

In the sources associated with this entry there are two US census forms for 1900 & 1920.

In these forms it is recorded that William's father was from England and his mother from Pennsylvania, so his father must have emigrated to the US in the period up to 1858  -  I have attached the census forms for your info.

Hope this helps

Best regards