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Subject: Error in UPTON VR's
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 02:07:56 EDT


Dear WRG:

I've been working on some of the extended lines down from John-2 Whitney, and
have run across what has to be a transcription error in the VR's from Upton,
MA.

In the family of Moses-8 (Ephraim-7, Ephraim-6, Nathaniel-5, Nathaniel-4,
Nathaniel-3, John -2, John-1, Thomas-0) and Susannah Hall Whitney, the fourth
child of that marriage as found in the Upton births is:
Mary Hall Whitney, b. 5 Dec 1822.

Later in the Upton VR's, in the deaths is found the following entry:
Mary Hall, d. Moses and Susannah, Nov. 24, 1805 [a. 2y. 11m. 20d.]

When I entered this date, I got a big red box on my screen which (properly)
pointed out that the death date is before the birth date. I ran the date
calculator using the 2y. 11m. 20d added on to the birth date and came up with
Nov. 25, 1825 - one day off in the day/month. This would suggest to me that a
transcriber (either for the Franklin P. Rice publication series, or one of us
a couple of years ago, or even a town clerk in Upton years ago) misread the
1825 date and entered it as 1805.

I'm going to correct it in my copy of the Upton VR's - each of you is, of
course, free to accept or reject this interpretation.

I'm having a wonderful summer, keeping cool by staying in a lot and playing
with the computer, the internet, and my genealogy projects. With all the
additions I am making to the Whitny12 listing as last published by following
various lines on down through the VR's my count in that db is pushing 10,500
entries. Whenever it is time to put out the next version (Whitny13), I'll
submit my material to Jon and hope that it will prove valuable to some of you.
I do use it when I receive queries through the list (or separately, for that
matter).

I hope everyone else is doing well, that our southern members are finding some
way to keep sane and reasonably cool in this extreme heat, and that the gods
of genealogy are smiling upon all of you.

Sincerely,

Allan E. Green

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