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Genealogy in Action: Revising Conclusions Based on New Evidence
What happens when yesterday’s genealogical conclusion no longer fits today’s evidence?
![Newspaper clipping from 5 January 1866. Story describes the vicious murder of a woman by her brother in Connor's Creek, an area of Grosse Pointe Township, Wayne County, Michigan.
“APPALLING TRAGEDY … A Brother Butchers His Sister with an Axe,” initial news coverage of the death of “Mrs. William Lynch” at the hands of brother “who calls himself John Hanly, but whose real name is John Cooper,” The [Detroit] Michigan Free Press, vol. XXIX, no. 182, 5 January 1866, p. 1, col. 4; imaged, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com/image/1048531672 : accessed 1 July 2026), search “Hanly” and/or “Lynch” in 1866 in Detroit, Michigan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dekxpx2uisvl4uqg5gjnyu2q/bafkreibanuo7b5f2svppxfuw7se47w6u5xzvsppiavltv6vlswxzzpbjju)