Material changes to the public research catalogue and its interpretation.
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Recent assessments from public case files, using their recorded update dates and source wording. An update is not necessarily a resolved question. Undated cases remain on their individual pages; the original release history and machine sources remain below.
William Glasgow was born or baptised in Glasgow on 24 October 1641, according to the Scotland’s People index of the Old Parish Registers (parish 644 / 1, reference 30 / 298), which names his parents as William Glasgow and Bessy Howie. The entry is known from the index only: the original register image has not been inspected, and the indexed date is not proved to be a birth date. The file records nothing further about his life.
William is a real, distinct older Larne man. A published transcript of the Larne and Kilwaughter congregational accounts probably identifies him as William Glasgow Major when the mortcloth was lodged with him in 1734. A derivative account of the session book (not Porter) has William handling mortcloth money in 1739/40, 1741 and 1743. Registry memorial 62131 independently places William as an adjoining Larne occupier in March 1736. These adult occurrences cannot belong to William Glasgow-3326, born in 1730.
William Glasgow was born or baptised in St Cuthbert's parish on 29 November 1662, according to the Scotland’s People index of the Old Parish Registers (parish 685 / 2, reference 30 / 53), which names his parents as Robert Glasgow and Eupham Laurimer. The entry is known from the index only: the original register image has not been inspected, and the indexed date is not proved to be a birth date. The file records nothing further about his life.
William Glasgow was born or baptised in Glencorse on 26 December 1680, according to the Scotland’s People index of the Old Parish Registers (parish 687, reference 10 / 19), which names his parents as John Glasgow and Margaret Currie. The entry is known from the index only: the original register image has not been inspected, and the indexed date is not proved to be a birth date. The file records nothing further about his life.
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
William's testament dative (NRS Edinburgh Commissary Court CC8/8/62, images 461–462, confirmed 22 July 1646) records £20 Scots owed by Andro Glasgow in Woodhead and £2 10s associated with the late John Glasgow in England. These are financial connections only; neither man is called a relative.
William Glasco was a son of Patrick Glasco and a brother of James and Richard Glasco, and died on 1 November 1738, aged about seven, according to the Kilclone memorial erected by his brother James. The inscription, known from a transcription published in 1892, is taken as proof of the death date and of the parent and sibling relationships. His age is printed with a query, so his calculated birth about 1731 is uncertain; his father Patrick died in May 1754 aged 60.
William and Bessie Howie are indexed in Glasgow's banns and marriages on 5 December 1635 (OPR 644/1/230/126). This is earlier than the live tree's 1640 marriage date and consistent with children recorded from 1636. Their existing marriage date remains uncertain pending the original: the combined index does not distinguish proclamation from the ceremony. This is new chronological evidence requiring a WikiTree note, not just a confirming citation.
William Glasgow was a farmer who witnessed a lease of Cavankilgreen, Carnteel parish, County Tyrone, recorded in Registry of Deeds memorial 113381 on 22 January 1746, a date that may be 1745/6 in Old Style. He is known only from an indexed extract; the memorial image has not been read. An unnamed Glasgow occupied part of the same townland in 1725, and William is a plausible identity for that occupier, but the memorial does not prove it. No record links him to James Glasgow of Drumearn (Glasgow-1025).
Thomas Glasgow was born or baptised in Glasgow on 15 March 1612, according to the Scotland’s People index of the Old Parish Registers (parish 644 / 1, reference 10 / 81), which names his parents as George Glasgow and Margaret Steuart. The entry is known from the index only: the original register image has not been inspected, and the indexed date is not proved to be a birth date. The file records nothing further about his life.
Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; Edinburgh
The supplied 12/08/1666 St Cuthbert's index date differs from the profile’s structured birth date 1666-08-08. The original register is needed to determine whether these describe separate birth and baptism dates or a transcription discrepancy.
Inveresk and Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; Musselburgh / Inveresk
Thomas Glasgow was born or baptised in the parish of Inveresk and Musselburgh on 6 August 1637, according to the Scotland’s People index of the Old Parish Registers (parish 689, reference 10 / 300), which names his parents as Thomas Glasgow and Agnes Thomsone. The entry is known from the index only: the original register image has not been inspected, and the indexed date is not proved to be a birth date. The file records nothing further about his life.
County Antrim, Ireland, United Kingdom; Lisnagaver, County Antrim, Ireland, United Kingdom
The original 30 July 1861 deed, B465 now identifies Daniel of Kilrea, watchmaker, and Thomas of Lisnagaver, farmer, with wives Margaret and Mary Anne, as the men selling interests under Robert’s will. Their identity with Daniel-3896 and Thomas-987 is established by the combined places, occupations, wives and earlier brotherhood evidence. The siblings’ parents remain unnamed. Robert, Samuel, John, Daniel and Thomas belong to the same will-defined sibling group, with sister Mary and brother James’s children also named. No contemporary parent names follow, and Alexander-951 is not proved to be another brother.
Added a Y-DNA Explorer covering every public FT25406/FT20271-cluster paternal root, with cautious WikiTree profile mappings, confirmed SNP levels and interactive pairwise STR genetic distances.
Separated STR steps, named SNP branches and unavailable private-variant distances so mutation counts are not misread as generations or documentary proof.
Private family or tester details withheld.
Private family or tester details withheld.
Corrected the FT25406 line's displayed FTDNA root to Henry Glasgo 1774–1849 while retaining Jeremiah 1713–1777 only as a proposed deeper pedigree ancestor.
Private family or tester details withheld.
2026-08-09
Public research workbench
Redesigned the people catalogue with relevance ranking, shareable filters and responsive mobile cards.
Added evidence-led person dossiers with family cards, chronological records, hypotheses, open questions and source-quality summaries.
Added searchable public record and place catalogues, person comparison, correction guidance and a catalogue status page.
Added conservative candidate-source matching and a downloadable source-review queue; candidate matches remain explicitly unproved.
Integrated substantive research case findings into their person dossiers, with WikiTree cross-links and local-artifact safeguards.
Added explainable same-name and possible-duplicate comparisons to every person dossier.
Added mutually exclusive location and family-branch grouping, with compact location breadcrumbs and birth details for each earliest exported ancestor.
Added a public statistics pane covering regions, localities, given names, family branches, birth centuries and migration patterns.
External WikiTree profiles and source URLs now open in a separate browser tab.
Family grouping now requires a shared exported ancestor; singleton and disconnected profiles are explicitly grouped as unconnected rather than presented as one-person branches.
Similar-person scoring now compares death years, parents and children's profiles and names, while distinguishing exact child matches from weaker naming-pattern overlap.
Similar-person tables now repeat the current subject's dates, places and immediate family directly above the candidates.
Added cautious potential-parentage tables that rank age-plausible candidates using locations, spouses and Scottish child-naming patterns, with every point explained.
Rebalanced parentage scoring so surname is only an eligibility filter: birthplace and country conflicts now dominate, while first/second son and daughter patterns, spouses and matching sibling sets provide the strongest naming evidence.
Combined parentage and duplicate leads into accessible profile tabs, replacing dense tables with responsive candidate cards, visual fit bars, prominent conflicts and expandable scoring detail; the subject summary remains visible above both tabs.
Expanded parentage scoring across three descendant generations and each candidate's siblings, nieces and nephews; repeated names now receive inverse-frequency points from the catalogue-wide public given-name statistics.
Redesigned person dossiers around a compact identity-and-family overview and the candidate workbench; timelines, findings, evidence, questions, sources and technical captures now stay collapsed until requested.
Rebuilt duplicate and parentage scoring around hard chronological eligibility gates and relationship certainty: impossible date separations are excluded, independently supported shared parents outweigh uncertain attachments, conflicting supported parents block duplicate classification, and WikiTree uncertain/confident/DNA/non-biological parent markers are preserved and displayed.
Expanded potential-parent scoring with time-specific locality evidence, mapped distance between differently named nearby places, bounded-date uncertainty, fit within known children's birth windows, a known wife's maternal-age plausibility, occupation and tenancy succession, visible factor breadth, and safeguards that stop one repeated name scoring repeatedly through overlapping family networks.
Rebuilt tree-clue scoring around sex-aware Scottish naming positions and known-position controls; it now tests parental couples, spouse-specific child groups, birth spacing, deliberate name reuse, independent sibling households, rare name bundles, lineage surnames used as middle names, recurring marriage surnames, migration paths, branch reconvergence and multigeneration echoes, while penalising tree paths that instead make a candidate an uncle, aunt or grandparent.
Potential-parent leads now understand titles and ID-only display placeholders, interpret bounded subject dates in the age label, test the candidate-to-earliest-child grandparent interval, and distinguish a same-country locality mismatch from a country conflict.
Added a Strong candidate matches worklist beneath Explore the research, ranking each profile's best unresolved parent lead and every unique possible-duplicate pair with scores, strongest clues and cautions.
Potential-parent scoring now recognises direct same-sex parent-child name recurrence, canonical shared localities despite county-label differences, and candidates whose existing child profile resembles the subject—a clue that may expose a duplicate family reconstruction.
Childless subjects can now receive parentage leads when their name repeats in independent descendant branches of a candidate's known child, including conservative familiar-name matching such as Bessie and Elizabeth; approximate dates may admit a narrow viable age interval without treating it as a strong chronological match.
The Strong candidate matches worklist now has a bookmarkable maximum birth-year filter that applies to both people in parentage and duplicate comparisons while retaining profiles with unknown dates.
Potential-parent eligibility now uses birth surnames rather than married surnames, suppresses competing parents when an exact birth date already accompanies a non-uncertain parent attachment, limits missing-sibling descendant echoes to childless parentless subjects, and reserves the Strong candidate matches worklist for strong multi-factor leads scoring at least 80.
2026-08-07
Machine-readable dossiers
Published compact identity indexes, per-person claims and evidence dossiers, immediate-family networks and static name-resolution candidates.