Since only 4-6 people responded, I still recommend keeping it open for longer in future. I'd consider 'weekly' visitors 'regular' and you are likely to miss them. As well as people taking a week off. I'd recommend trying to open to wider audience whenever possible. I just use myself as an example. I'm a 'top ten' beta user and I missed it.

How long was this open for? I see it's too late to reply now. Should question be modified to reflect it's now closed. I recommend it stay open longer if you do this again.

"it's not clear to me that the person who has asked our user this question has consented" - even if they consented, it's not appropriate. They can join SE and submit themselves under their handle, and they can provide what info they want in their profile. That is the only way living individuals (other than reference to book authors in answer below) should ever appear.

meta.genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/1726/… is a great explanation of 'cousin-bait'. My takeaway from that it's possible to have good self-answered questions about a given ancestor without it being cousin bait.

@ColeValleyGirl - that is one of my frustrations with this site. I put what I consider significant time into trying to meet your quality standards. I do more than 'just work on them a little' but it's still insufficient. I work much more than full-time and only have a few hours per week for my genealogy hobby so the hours I spend are very valuable to me. It is much easier on the other sites I participate in. I'd hoped this site would replace all those sites.