No that isn't my point at all.
My point is to be exact and precise when you can, and loose when you
need.
You don't need to be loose here. There are things which we do in fact
know about these people. It's not based upon what I wish some 16th
century priest or scribe had done, but rather, they did do it. You're
just three generations away from the source, and you need to dig down
*to* the source to see exactly what it does or doesn't state.
You're asking how to go back further, and how to verify a line.
This is how to do that.
This is what we all do here, all day.
It is the nature of medieval genealogy, that you have to source each
event, cite it, quote it, recheck it, check it again, compare the
sources, discuss the authors, the time period, the customs....
That's simply the way you must do it, in this time period.
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