This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADE/1417.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Darleen, Thank you so much for your reply. I am very excited to make this connection with you. I don't think the information in the Thompson Family Bible is incorrect. I think it has been interpreted incorrectly. I believe two Nancy J. Thompsons were recorded. I believe one, born in 1832 and listed as Nancy J. was John F.'s sister. I believe he listed her in his bible along with his parents either because she was young and unmarried at the time or perhaps she and her parents were living in the home with John F. and his family at that point. The Nancy Jane who was listed on the birth page in, I believe 1854 (I think that is the date. I am doing this from memory.) was, I believe, John F.'s child, who was either stillborn or born and died on the same day. Nancy Jane is ALSO LISTED on the death page for that very same day. I believe this little girl was born to John and his wife. It fits in with the pattern of his growing family. I believe she was named after her Aunt Nancy J. The 1832 entry reads Nancy J. and the 1854 entries (on BOTH birth and death pages) read Nancy Jane. I believe that was their way of making a distinction between the two. It probably would not have occurred to them that somewhere down through the years, we would not recognize that they were two different people. I believe no one has ever questioned it before because no one from my great-grandmother's direct line has ever done any research before, so to other researchers, it just didn't raise any red flags. There is no doubting there are three entries in that bible for Nancy Thompson, two on the birth page with different dates, 1832 and 1854, and one on the death page in 1854. Even if we decided that the second one on the birth page was put there by mistake, entered there instead of the death page mistakenly -- wouldn't the person who recorded it improperly have marked it out once they discovered their mistake -- WHEN they entered it on the death page instead? Away from the bible. I know that my grandmother was Clifford Virginia Green Hale. She was raised in Shady Dale, Ga. My Dad's exact words were, "My grandmother's people were Mercers and Thompsons." Little Clifford is listed with her parents, William Green and Nancy J. Green in the 1870 census for Jasper County. Nancy J. is listed as 38 years old in that census, making her birth year 1832. (Matching the first entry in the Thompson Family Bible.) I have a marriage record for Nancy Thompson and William Green in the early 1860s. There are records from Provedence Baptist Church where Nancy J. Thompson joined the church at the same time as Rosamond and Joseph Thompson AFTER the date when she supposedly died. There are records from a doctor there in Shady Dale showing that members of the Thompson family often picked up medicine for Nancy Green. There are numerous land transactions between John F. Thompson and his wife and William and Nancy J. Green. This note is probably much longer than they want on the message boards, but I couldn't figure out how to contact you personally. I would love to hear from you again. Thanks, Beverly