Dear Jean, I tried to contact the person with no success after I found out who it was after writing a letter and made a phone call, the person apparently has his e-mail changed; because his mail came back to me twice as I thought I had maybe made a mistake in his address after I had written it down exactly has it was given to me. I wrote him a nice letter, Someone told me that the Mormon Genealogy Society now has a copy of his diary,thats ok, I am just wondering if we had told the people not to let it out side the family, I really wonder if they would have done it even thow they promised not to, I took a chance when I first made copies of it, if it maybe would have done something to the ink as it was quiet old, it was copied for me from the book its self, few years back, now realizing that, I make copies from the copies that I copied from my first copies that was given to me, make sence? Thanks, Jan. after my color came back, has I did not wont to write in haste. Jean Dalrymple wrote: > > Good morning Jan.... > > There are MANY err's in the LDS IGI and the Ancestorial file... especially > the ancestorial file, the reason there is, is that folks like you and I > submit the information to the "Morman's" in the first place.... So who > ever submitted that information got their information from some where > else... you should contact that submitter... and ask NICELY where they > obtained the information... > > ALSO.. I have found that many folks did NOT know where they were born way > back then..... they did not celebrate birthdays etc and the elders did not > talk much about such things.... So perhaps he THOUGHT that he was born in > one place and he was born in another INROUTE some where, perhaps Cinci... > as his family was moving West down the OH river.... > > I have a gent that swore that he was born in 1710 in PA.... I believed him > until just a few months ago I found that he was actually born in Scotland in > 1708.... He lived in PA for about 20 years, then moved South into SC. > I found him and his siblings and parents on a ships record and then in to > the church records in Scotland and his families church records in PA.... > He just lived there and ASSUMED that he was born there...... > > Now as far as the different dates of birth, that is an easy one.... Some > times we have to use baptism records...... and the date that you have for > birth and the other records could very well be one of each.... As for > census. They are also full of holes.... They are just as good as the person > who answered the door... sometimes that was just a neighbor... > > Oh, I am not trying to defend the person that submitted the information to > the LDS, I am just saying that there may be a chance that you both for very > good reasons think that you are correct.. > > ALSO there are so many folks out there that do NOT bother to prove their > information... and perhaps like me... I don't prove the collateral lines > that others send me.... it is just to darn expensive.. I do however try to > say that it is unproven by me..... > > So before you get to excited, contact that submitter and see where they > obtained that information.... Perhaps your g-g-grandfathers mother left a > diary.. > > Jeannie <>< > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Sexton [mailto:SugarSpoon@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 10:42 PM > To: KYNICHOL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [KYNICHOL] tid-bit > > I clicked on the web page and what I found out to be untrue is the inf. > abt. my second great grandfather, Nixon Covey,someone submitted the > wrong inf. to the Morman. WE as a family has his diary that he himself > left us in his own hand writing,,, I would like for someone write them > for a correction on him and his fam. I would like to know where the > Morman genealogy society got their inf. > 1, he was not born on the 31 of March 1791, he was born on the 1 st. of > March 1791, For Sure not in Cinncinnati, Oh., But in Harve-De- Grace, > MD., he never lived in Oh. He lived in diff. parts of Ky. and your Ky. > cences will tell you that, which I can prove. He taught school in > Breathitt Co. Ky, and in Estill Co.,Ky. His records stands strong > there. I wish people wouldn't tell things like that, it urps me to > know end, > I am a proud 2nd. great grandaughter of Nixon Covey's And I wish that > someone would rectify this mess, HE NOR DID NONE OF HIS FAMLEY EVER, > EVER LIVED IN OHIO { PERIOD}, Jan. > > Jean Dalrymple wrote: > > > > http://globalgazette.net/gazettes/gaz49.htm > > > > interesting research information... j. <><