I will add to this. I have ancestor who from 1850-1880 she when from 22 to 30, Tell me how could she not have age? Her first husband from 1850-1860 when from 23 to 25 She was born after 1838 and he was born c 1828. Now if can not proof by documents that gggreatgrandfather is who you say he is. Then must proof he does not belong to any one else. The DAR, SAR, DAC and DAMES will take this but it is hard but it works janet ariciu www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu ----- Original Message ----- From: Devenport, Jim <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:04 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] RE: Documentation > Well, along this thread: > My grandparents were married on 7 August 1910, according to their family > Bible. The marriage certificate, on file at the Chavez County courthouse in > Roswell, NM, signed by the minister who married them, states the wedding > date as 10 Aug 1910. So according to the "official" document, my > grandparents were wrong in recording their wedding as 7 August. Perhaps > that was the day they obtained the marriage license or bond? Who knows? > The only thing I'm pretty certain of in this case is that they were married > on one of these fine days in August. > Errors occur for all sorts of reasons. I noticed that my > great-great-grandmother Permelia Ann Reynolds, in one census recorded while > she was living with her second husband, was listed as "age 39" when in fact > she was 45, according to her family bible information and other censuses. > Might this have anything to do with the fact that her then-new husband > listed his age as 40? Perhaps she fibbed about her age both to younger > husband AND [Heaven Forbid] the census-taker? > In later censuses her age is recorded accurately, but by then she was no > longer wed to a younger man. > Surely she has to have been the only woman in history to have fibbed about > her age or other statistics to a government official? <evil snicker> > Jim Devenport > (DNA participant anxiously awaiting results of the test. Hoping I really AM > a Devenport, and not the milkman's son, as my Dad often joked) > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >