Marlyn Lewis's web database Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins is consulted by many WikiTree members. This is just a reminder that it should not be regarded as reliable.

The Medieval Project main page refers members to the Magna Carta Project free space page on reliable sources: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Magna_Carta_Project_Reliable_Sources. This lists Marlyn Lewis as an unreliable source. Often, Marlyn Lewis
purports to be basing his information on Douglas Richardson, but frequently there are statements, with Richardson cited, that have no basis whatsoever in Richardson, and goodness knows where Marlyn Lewis has got the information from. Marlyn Lewis also
draws on the unreliable Burke’s Peerage. Anything stated by Marlyn Lewis needs to be verified against Richardson or other more reliable sources, and it is best to cite Richardson or those other sources, not Marlyn Lewis.

Another trap is that Marlyn Lewis frequently says that people are born, or died, ”at of” such and such a place. This phraseology does NOT mean that Marlyn Lewis believes they were necessarily born or died there. What it signifies is that Marlyn Lewis
believes they had some association (usually property-holding) with the place for part of their lives. This is often misunderstood by WikiTree members.

Because of the problems, Magna Carta Project policy is to avoid citing Marlyn Lewis so far as possible.

I will be posting in similar terms in the Magna Carta Project Google Group.

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