Sarah Webber - Ancestry of Sarah Webber

Hi cousin,

Did you also, in addition to contacting my, contact the site manager(s) for Arnout Webber and Sarah Webber? I think that's the only way this may have a possibility of being resolved. I've been pretty busy these days, it may be a great while before I have time to get to the New York Historical Society to find documents to back up this information. Are you also finding this misleading information among the LDS files? I wish you luck. Let me know how you get along.

Malcolm Higbee-Glace

Hi Cousin Malcomlm, Yes, I sent a message to all of the site managers for Sarah Webber, of which you are one. But not to Arnout Webber. I believe at least one of the site managers for Armont Webber's site is one of the sources of the problem. Where would these documents be found?

There were lawyers making connections to Anna Jans . There was a big law suit agaist the church that was on her land. The lawyers had all these false lines.

Yes, I am aware of the legal actions by the decedents of Annaka Jans vs Trinity Church. And there have been many bogus claims of relation due to that (especially with variations of the Jans and Jansen etc). But that's not the source of the Webber issue. The problem with the bogus links to Webber's stems from the claim that Annaka decended from William the Silent, Prince of Oranje, through a clandestine relationship. It is true that William had 4 wives and at least one relationship outside of marriage. His children outside marriage were given the surname of Webber. This is known because there is at least one such child that he did claim and that child was given the surname of Webber. But that was with a woman of similar station. It is believed that he had other relations which also bore children but did not claim them because the mother was below his station. There are various claims that Annaka descends from one of these. Some say that he is her father, others that he is her grand father. But the reason that people were trying to link to her was to do with a legend that that he left a small fortune to her descendants. That fact is that there no evidence to support any claim that Annaka descends from William the Silent. The problem is that the claims can not be disproven either. There isn't any undisputed evidence as to who Annaka's father really was. So, although highly improbable, it is not impossible that she could have descended from William the Silent. And it is to that end that everyone keeps linking any relative with the Webber surname to Annaka. People would just keep linking everyone to her weather she was related to them or not and they would clone other profiles and link them to her as a different relation. Annaka's profile is a master profile with a curator and she finally got most of the bogus links removed. All of the relations listed as being Sarah Webber's father and up the tree on her father's side from there were some of the ones that were removed from Annika's Jan's profile as being bogus. It is very clear that Arnout could not possibly be Sarah's father as he died 10 years before she was born. The link needs to be removed until or unless someone can provide evidence that the link is legitimate.

Problem solved. Arnout was removed.

Good news Sammy. You're making great headway.