On Sat, 14 May 2011 21:58:37 -0400, singhals wrote: > Wes Groleau wrote: >> On 05-13-2011 03:11, Peter J. Seymour wrote: >>> It is however in my experience rare for an event to be assigned more >>> than one possible date. >> >> What do you mean by "assigned" ? I _often_ found competing claims in >> primary sources for the date of an event. >> >> I have also found different dates for an event reported BY the person >> the event pertained to. >> >> I found a date of death in a book allegedly of cemetery transcriptions >> published by a genealogical society, then went to the cemetery and >> found that the month was clearly legible on the stone and not the month >> stated in the book. >> >> etc. >> >> > And of course my GGF -- his hobby was lying about the year of his birth. > > If he hadn't held on to the same day-month, I'd never recognize him. > > Cheryl That would be similar to my Grandmother who actually celebrated 2 birthdays. The one she was 'actually' born on, and the one given to her by the Welsh Gypsies who abducted her as a child. My researches indicate that she was actually not abducted, but raised by an aunt who ran a 'baby farm' using the same forename but a different surname. At her marriage age 20 one Sarah Ann disappeared from public record and another with a different surname appeared listing a different father to the one on her birth certificate. Later censuses showed the aunt who raised her appeared as a visitor and the children of 'siblings' from the baby farm as nephews and nieces. I was able, using customizing, to accommodate all this in Gramps.