Francis Edgar Stanley family tree

This tree will be of interest to no one except those attempting to quiet title to land F.O. Stanley donated to the town of Estes Park in 1936.  It was produced in a matter of hours today starting from zero and using only the internet.  It contains tens if not hundreds of errors, and probably scores of missing descendants.

What will be fun (at least for me) will be the time lapse of how this tree improves and fleshes out over the next few weeks, now that I am enlisting the help of living family members at the bottom of this tree by sending them this horrible tree.  Nothing like errors in your own history to light a fire.

Even just a little accurate information bootstrapped from the internet shows how wrong prominent internet entries can be, and how convincing this misinformation becomes when it is picked up and repeated by other websites.  F.O. Stanley and F.E. Stanley sold their Stanley automobile manufacturing operation BEFORE F.E. Stanley's death in 1918, regardless of what certain reputable internet sites claim, but it didn't exactly get too far out of their purview, as most of the new officers were still Stanleys by birth, or Stanleys-in-law through marriage to F.E. Stanley's daughters.

Intriguingly, F.E. Stanley's death in an automobile accident occurred just a few days after the marriage of his only son Raymond.  This is something history books have either forgotten, or fail to explore.

For genealogists and aspiring genealogists out there, watch how this tree grows.  I will juxtapose the original tree with the final one to show you the current "uselessness" of the internet in reconstructing trees in those cases where trees weren't already provided by family members.