Poof! Gone! Moses Seeds
Mar 17
1 min read
Despite 53 family trees on Ancestry.com confidently insisting otherwise, Moses Seeds (born about 1773 or 1776 in Orange County, New York) is officially a genealogical ghost. He never existed. Poof. Gone. So if you’re connected to the Seeds family in Lawrence County, you might want to grab a cup of coffee and read on before inviting this guy to another reunion.
Genealogist Dann Norton has just dropped a new blog post untangling the legendary mix‑up of two men named Moses Seeds—and in the process, proved that the “older Moses” was basically copy‑and‑paste history gone wrong. Wrong parents, wrong dates, wrong everything. One of those guys.
Read the full genealogical plot twist here:
