I can relate to that my husbands 3 great grandfather jerimiah davenport and his second wife sara fine snider davenport is a mess... so who do we believe the census the records or the family bibles? if i get information out of the census and then the birth and marriage bonds and all three has different dates what do you do? pam rice church (searching for hubby's family) ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Devenport, Jim" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:04:58 -0600 >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 > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >