Several of you noted errors. I absolutely HATE to make errors and waste everyone's time. My abject apologies. I have wracked my brain to figure out why I had wrong source links. Only thing I can come up with is that I had too many tabs/windows open and copied from the wrong one. Could not possibly be idiocy !!! Okay, I've gone over this another time and made some notes (IN CAPS, TO SET THEM OFF FROM THE ORIGINAL INQUIRY). Perhaps this will help give a clearer and more accurate picture. Possible there are two men by the same name from the same place, born the same year but died two different years. Maybe, but quite strange, if so. Jeanne ---------------------------------------- > From: norsky123@hotmail.com > To: norway@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: PEDER BERSVENDSEN DRAXTEN - B. SELBU 1790 - DEATH DATE? > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:14:21 +0000 There are two possible Arkivvverke records for a person named PEDER BERSVENDSEN DRAXTEN, husband of AGNETHE OLSDTR. RENAA Which one is the correct death date? Both work out to about 1790 for his DOB, said to be his correct birth year in other records. Their marriage is said to have taken place in Selbu in 1815 (I've not found that so far, but haven't looked yet either). [Source: "Draxen Folklet, 1716-1988", Pg. 162] Wife AGNETHE b. 1790 in Selbu (parents Ole Gunderson Renaa and Sigrid Olsdatr. Draxen) died 13 Mar 1851 in Selbu. Her death record is found below: HER DEATH IS NOTED AT THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN-TOP OF THE PAGE, LINE 16. THE SAME LINK AS BEFORE. SAYS SHE DIED MAR 13 1857 AT 61 YEARS. SHE WAS ALSO CALLED AGNIS (MY ERROR IN NOT NOTING THAT IN THE FIRST TRY). Source information: Sør-Trøndelag county, Selbu in Selbu, Parish register copy nr. 695C05 (1842-1858), Chronological list 1851, page 86. Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=16319&idx_id=16319&uid=ny&idx_side=-89 Their children, all b. in Selbu: Bersven b. 1812 Ole b. 1815 Torkild b. 1818 SIGRID - b. 1819 (she is my line, later married Anders Christiansen from Horg, a recent inquiry on this list) Torkild b. 1822 Marit b. 1823 Agnethe b. 1826 Peder b. 1829 Beret b. 1833 Berith b. 1835 Which death record (below) is for Agnethe's husband, Peder Bersvendsen Draxton, supposedly born about 1790 in Selbu? The book (sourced above) used the 1857 date, but I also found an 1873 death record for the same name. Both work out to a 1790 DOB. I am now uncertain which death date to enter into my database. 1. Line #59 - Death Date 1873 THANKS TO E. SCRIVEN OF THIS LIST FOR A CORRECTED SOURCE. TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, LINE 59 Source information: Sør-Trøndelag county, Selbu in Selbu, Parish register copy nr. 695C07 (1869-1888), Death and burial records 1873, page 320. Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=16321&idx_id=16321&uid=ny&idx_side=-268 2. Line #28 - Death Date 1857 (2 source links) 3RD COLUMN FROM THE LEFT, ABOUT 2/3's OF THE WAY DOWN THE PAGE. PEDER BERSVEND DRAXTEN, AGE 65. Source information: Sør-Trøndelag county, Selbu in Selbu, Parish register copy nr. 695C05 (1842-1858), Chronological list 1857, page 105. Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=16319&idx_id=16319&uid=ny&idx_side=-108 HERE IS YET ANOTHER LINK, SENT BY E. SCRIVEN OF THIS LIST, THAT SHOWS THE 1857 DEATH AGAIN, ALSO AGE 65. LINE 27, NEARLY THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. Source information: Sør-Trøndelag county, Selbu in Selbu, Parish register (official) nr. 695A06 /1 (1843-1859), Death and burial records 1857, page 398. Permanent pagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=15709&idx_id=15709&uid=ny&idx_side=-282 Many thanks for any additional input anyone can give me on this new problem. Jeanne