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From: V Billings <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] sources.
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: 6667

Faye: you are absolutely correct. I mistakenly always believed the LDS had correct info. Your gggrandfather is a prime example of how untrue this is. What can be helpful is to look at information as a guide. It may point one in a direction that hadn't been thought of. Sometimes the direction is a deadend, and sometimes the direction has a pot of gold at the end.

faye parker <> wrote:People often repeat faulty information. My home county has a book that has 100's of errors.And familysearch(mormons) have in their files my grt. grt. grandfather listed as born thde same years as his father.

V Billings wrote:These are good points. However since the census was taken in Indiana, the Ohio state had to come from someone's memory. If the census had been taken in Ohio, I'd be less likely to accept. Until I can find proof it is a mistake, I'm going to go with the assumption it's correct.
Vicki

Sharyn Hay wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Teresa Elliott"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [ADVANRES] primary resource
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> PS I tend to believe the man who answered the census taker. I think he
> would have known where he was born. While it is true that information on
> the census can be wrong, most of the time it is close.
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott

Unfortunately it was rarely a man who answered the census taker. Most of
the censuses were done during the daylight hours, during planting season and
the men were not at home. If they worked in the city they were at work. The
only people home were either the wives or children. There are many, many
stories of incorrect information given by spouses, children, and neighbors.
If I was going to doubt any piece of census information it would be the
birth location of an adult male as well as the information about the birth
locations of his parents.

Regards,
Sharyn


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