One major effort involved creating Wikipedia presence with regard to the couple of interest. See Thomas Gardner (planter). Now, with respect to that, one will link items across articles. This image depicts a knowledge map that is centered on Thomas.
To interact with the map, go to the portal at Inforapid.com (12/15/2015 - link not on-line). There are many uses for this type of graphing. In the case of Wikipedia, upon which this map is made, one can look at the material with a view to consistency, accuracy, etc., In this case, there are eleven different articles. The associations that are mapped were determined by a standard algorithm.
There are interactive means to make changes to this type of thing. However, letting the tool work can be instructive, too. Notice the link to Swayze; that came about due to a reference on the Swayze page that some descendants of John married descendants of Thomas. Another association is that some of the Swayzes left the Salem area due to persecution (Quaker) which is a story that is common to Thomas' children (Richard, John, George) and many other families.

See Vol. V, No. 1 of Gardner's Beacon for a review of progress to date. Too, types of contributions are provided.
References: see Sources (All Issues)
Remarks: Modified: 12/15/2015
05/13/2015 -- Started a "Gardner Research and Discussion" group on Facebook. If you are interested, please ask to join. See link on the FB page.
12/15/2015 -- Removed link to the knowledge map; the system is now off-line.
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