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Person · Rachel Harris
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationRachel Harris
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Married
- James Harris
- Children
- Rebecca Anna Harris
- Sources
- 1
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Rebecca Anna Harris's 1857 Woolwich Township marriage return and her 1866 Salem City death return, both read from the images, name her parents as James & Rachel Harris
Life in the order the records give it
Census1850
🆕 In August 1850 she was
Rachel Harris, 39, born New Jersey, in James Harris’s household in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Benjamin, 16, and Charlotte E., 10
Confirmed S1167. That age puts her birth about 1811, which sits awkwardly with Rebecca Anna’s birth about 1823: either Rebecca was born later than her 1860 age says, or Rachel was James’s second wife. Both of Rebecca’s own returns name her mother as Rachel, so the card stands; if you know more, use “Add to this record”.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Names—
Her maiden name and dates are not yet documented
In the record
Generation 7 — Earl's earliest known
- S11671850 U.S. census, Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey, p. 44 (stamped 332), dwelling 347, family 348, lines 15–18 (12 August 1850). Ancestry record 4604617. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed James Harris, 53, male, labourer, born New Jersey; Rachel Harris, 39, born New Jersey; Charlotte E. Harris, 10, at school; Benjamin Harris, 16; all born New Jersey. No real estate entered. The 1850 census states no relationships. The first digit of James’s age is overwritten; 53 is the likeliest reading and fits his 63 in 1860 (S653) and 73 in 1870 (S622). Rachel’s 39 puts her birth about 1811, which is hard to square with Rebecca Anna’s birth about 1823: either Rebecca was born later or Rachel was a second wife. This record does not settle it.