Bobbi's point about State boundaries changing is a good. Also consider the fact that the person providing the census information on any particular day, may not know in what state every person in their household was born. I would not throw out my belief in a relationship link because of discrepancies in place of birth if there is substantial information that it may be wrong. Obviously discrepancies should cause us to dig deeper because the census could be correct. But many times it is not. I have had situations where a lot of the family information fit, but not enough to prove one way or another, and then later found two first cousins with the same name and approximate birth date. In one of these I had myself descended from the wrong cousin. The descendant info was fine as well as the common grandparents line back. BUT I had a lot of errors having the wrong parents and spent much time tracing other related family lines of the wrong cousin. Not to mention that people who took what I put online continue to perpetuate some of the errors, even thought I tracked a few down and sent corrections. Hopefully someone else will have some information to add to what has already been posted. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbi" <bobbidoll123@gmail.com> To: <buck@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [BUCK] Phebe Buck > Hi, > > I am not really sure as to boundary lines or dates, but I would check to > see > if anything that was once Vermont had ever become New Hampshire. At one > time part of New York State became the state of Vermont. On the Eastern > side of Vermont the borders might have changed also. > > Bobbi > > On 2/10/07, Casa Del Luna <sharmacvilla@ca.rr.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. As you pointed out, the John Buck that I have may >> be >> an error and the Phebe in question is probably the daughter of Israel >> Buck >> and Phebe Benedict. The birthdate fits, however, the big problem lies in >> that she is said to have been born in New Milford, Connecticut. The Phebe >> Buck that I have as a curious twist. Her son, my gg grandfather, stated >> in >> the Census that she was born in Vermont. She, however, stated in a census >> taken when she was a 76 year old widow, that she was born in New >> Hampshire! >> Could it have been that she really didn't know where she was born? >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BUCK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >