This week, I worked with the ancestry branch that led back to Ezekiel Gile, the subject of last week's post. I intended to find more data that would better document the people, places, and dates on that line. My hope was that I would have a well-documented line of descent from Ezekiel Gile to my generation that I could submit to Sons of the American Revolution or Daughters of the American Revolution. The trouble started when I reached Jacob Gile of Ohio.
My research indicated his birthplace as Ohio. But his parents (Rev. Samuel and Mary Gile), were lifetime New Englanders, living in New Hampshire and Massachusetts all of their lives. Problem. A Google search of Samuel Gile confirmed his parentage, but also indicated that his children died young and never had children of their own (American Quarterly Register, Volume 10, No. 3, pp.217-219). I'd followed the wrong Jacob Gile. I ended up deleting about 100 people, mostly descendants of our noble soldier Ezekiel Gile.
The correct Jacob Gile's ancestry is less than clear. There is good documentation placing him in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, but his parentage is iffy. He may be the offspring of Johann Christoff and Nancy GEIL. Johann is from Germany, Nancy from Kentucky; but this information is poorly supported.
No Revolutionary War vet, no copious New England records . . . none of that applies to this tree right now. Learned a lot, though, found a lot of new sources for future reference, learned of the importance of data testing, and have yet another new direction.
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