Talk:Rehoboth Carpenter Family

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[edit] Cleanup

Hopefully self-evident. This article appears incomplete, non-notable (for the moment), and lacking in sources. Ian Cairns 18:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup and additional information

The genealogical claims of the entry are amply supported by the Amos B. Carpenter genealogical reference cited by the author. It is a respected and largely reliable work, on microfiche now at the Library of Congress. It can't be accessed on line. A good presidential genealogical database is online, maintained by the University of Hull. It too supports the author's claims and could be cited in the article. The "two American presidents" in question are Bush 41 and Bush 43, who trace their descent to the Rehoboth branch Carpenters through Flora Sheldon, who was the mother of Prescott Sheldon Bush and the descendant of Benjamin and Renew (Weeks) Carpenter. Project Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter is a direct lineal descendant, from this same couple, but through a different line, through Carpenter sons. This claim too is documented in the Amos B. Carpenter reference work. (KC Stoever 19:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)).