This is primarily a research site. This web site is not intended to say that I endorse everything posted here as fact. In addition to showing the facts, the web site is also intended to pose the major theories in the hopes of stimulating discussion toward strengthening them or even disproving them. If I listed nothing but facts then there would be little to list except a lot of disjointed details.
Genealogy is fraught with leaps of faith.
Instead, we create the hypothesis that they are the same family and then attempt, in the course of later research, to find evidence that strengthens or conflicts with that hypothesis. Obviously, this is an over-simplification but it does demonstrate the point. We can only hope that these hypotheses were formed carefully with due diligence to the facts available. Without information about the supporting documentation we can never be certain. Remember that, once posed, a hypothesis can not be disproved by simply failing to find proof for it.