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Record W7000130251

Elwyn Robert McKinstry: Descendant of American Patriots A Genealogical Narrative Pedigree

2022· dissertation· en· W7000130251 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueSNHU Academic Archive (Southern New Hampshire University) · 2022
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicOral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDescendantGrandparentCensusNarrativeAmerican historyBattleBrotherSpanish Civil WarPortrait
DOInot available

Abstract

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Elwyn Robert McKinstry was born on 24 September 1890 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. His parents were Robert Elwyn McKinstry and Maud Howe. According to census entries, Maud’s parents were born in the United States of America. If Elwyn’s maternal grandparents were Americans, then it is possible that there are other American ancestors on the maternal branch of his tree. Could it be possible that the branches include American Patriots who fought in the American Revolutionary War? The results of the research are presented in an online exhibition using Omeka Classic at https://genealogysteve.omeka.net/exhibits/show/cover/abt. \nThe genealogical pedigree format used to analyze his ancestral roots begins with Elwyn Robert McKinstry. It ascends to address Patriot families in the generations that experienced the American Revolutionary War. The supporting genealogical research relies heavily on online resources and views them through the cultural and military historical lenses. Sources analyzed include Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, lineage society membership applications, family and local county histories, and vital records. The original research, driven by the discovery in a census of ancestors born in the U.S., is source-oriented.\nElwyn Robert McKinstry descended from American Patriots of the American Revolutionary War. His ancestors, Samuel Allen, Joshua Graves, Uriah Howe, Joseph Lockwood, and Thomas Lowrey, lived in either New York or New Hampshire and were of age to have served in the American Revolutionary War. Based on online research, Samuel Allen certainly was a Patriot veteran, Uriah Howe probably was a Patriot veteran, and Joshua Graves and Thomas Lowrey likely were Patriot veterans. Additional research in fixed-facility archives is required to further substantiate these Patriots’ service. It is possible that other ancestors yet to be discovered also served or supported the American cause as Patriots.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.467
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2022
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