On 05-14-2011 21:58, 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. My GGGGGGM aged eight years from one census to the next. :-) I have a family history with the author's birthdate and those of half of his many siblings one day different from those his mother reported in Civil War Pension paperwork. -- Wes Groleau There are two types of people in the world … http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1157