Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Hastings (colonist)
Being one of 20,000 migrants is not very impressive evidence of notability. The first source, from 1866 appears to be a privately printed genealogy which makes questionable assertions of "noble birth" as was common in vanity genealogies of the time. Notability is not inherited, nor does it percolate back to ancestors of notable persons. The article reads like speculation based on directory entries, and appears to fail . Ancestry.com is thataway and welcomes such ancestral prose
— User:Edison, 23:26, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)