The Book
My oh my, but there is a lot of speculation still going on.There are but three of us who have been actively doing genuine research for twenty years now on this whole line and we are all three dilegently working to finish up some lose ends. Be "genuine" research I refer to traveling to view original documents ourselves, not just copying what has already been published, mostly sans sourcing. Unfortunately, with so much really bad information on line (and in books/periodicals) regarding the good Captain, it makes our work even more difficult as we have to solidly prove what we find.Our books were due for printing a year ago this month, but with my own devestating fall in London late in '07, and resulting in four surgeries, my arm/hand is just now getting good enough to be strong enough to withstand constant pounding of the keys.The cousin is working on another book that will be a companion to my own and the two will certainly be well worth the wait.We are each covering two different eras with over-lapping data.Meanwhile, please be careful with the speculation.If you can't source what you find, don't trust it, please !Most of what's on line is not sourced and 80% of it is pure suppostion or speculation.Some of what has become accepted as fact was also never sourced, but pure speculation that has not held up under honest research.There was an awful lot of "cutting off the toes to make the shoe fit" ! Never, but never, accept someone else's comments without insisting on sources and then check out those sources yourself.It's really not that difficult to do.
Meanwhile, we will all help you sort out the lineage and there are some really reliable sources to do that.Speculation comes in when referring to historical facts, social activities, life styles, origins, that sort of thing.I will tell you that our surname comes in more than 27 varieties of spelling, with over 157 men named Thomas Wiggin(etc) in a 20-year period spread out all over the British Isles, including Ireland.It was a very, very common name.That's where the difficulty comes in and that's why I'm asking you to source, source, source !
Probably the best authority on the surname has done a chapter for my book and it is going to make your eyes pop!He's a foreigner and knows his stuff with the degrees to prove it.
Good stuff coming.I'm working now on publishing.
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