Re: trees based on the work of Don Greene, called Shawnee Heritage. Serious genealogists, including the Tribal Historian for the Virginia Tribes, call this book a work of fiction.
This page seeks to explain why researchers should be extremely cautious if family links in your line are drawn from this work; the page also gives direction to those who want to correctly mark these profiles and identify the profiles that are much more fiction than fact.
From Bill Deyo, current Tribal Historian VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL BOOKLETS by William "Bill" L. DEYO:
"Besides the Powhatan ancestry, the Shawnee/Cornstalk and most of the Moytoy children listed on the site (Wikitree) have no basis in fact that I know of and appear to be from that horrid book on Shawnee heritage that published a mass of incorrect information and outright lies."
That being said, there are several documents that show that John Stogdell/Stodgell immigrated to North America pre 1669. I don't believe there are any documents of others with this name in North America prior to this date. Yes, decedents probably/most likely had native wives. But to say it is a native name is ridiculous IMHO
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