Rene wrote: >As a transcriber of cemeteries myself I have found these kinds of mistakes >common. First of all depending on what kind of shape the stones are in, >they can be very difficult to transcribe. ---- I've always thought that "knowing" the date of death before seeing a well-weathered gravestone might influence the "reading" of that stone. On the other hand, I've also thought that finding all mentions of a person's date of death would resolve any ambiguities in a transcription of a gravestone by a person without such knowledge. However, I can't remember the specific person, but a bible record of her death date didn't agree with the probate record of her death date, and neither of these agreed with the date on the gravestone. The local, contemporary obitituaries in two papers didn't agree with each other, but in each case, did agree with one of the three dates from the above sources. Maybe she died around midnight on one of these dates, but that doesn't explain all of this. Jim