I heard from somewhere that the Jan 1 use is an error on the part of someone or other. Not very helpful, but it was so inaccurate that Ancestry dumped that particular database. Elizabeth In a message dated 11/24/2012 11:58:35 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Alan.Bell@colorado.edu writes: The list of Sussex Co marriages at genealogy trails.com/del/sussex is extremely helpful. But some of the entries seem, when compared to other records, to be incorrect. In particular, the date 1 Jan occurs improbably often (e.g., 140 times out of some 400+ entries for the C index). Is there some systematic use of this date to mean perhaps unknown month & day, but known year, or even unknown day, month, & year? I do not see any explanation at the genealogy trails website of the sources used to compile the index. Is there any way to trace the original records? Alan Bell, Boulder, Colorado *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message