>From: Glenn Yeager <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:44:39 -0700 (PDT) > > To All ! > Bible pages should be used cautiously the same as cencus records and >hear-say ! If There is a BIBLE copyrighted 1956 and it says John SMITH born >04 Aug. 1856 somebody wrote that in the BIBLE 100+ years at least after >the birth of John SMITH ! I see family BIBLE pages all the time perhaps >they should be recycled into Charmin or White Cloud as much good as they >are to Genealogists ! Then they're the ones that show me family BIBLE pages >from around 1854 looks good but sorry to say "NO good Sorry They did NOT >have felt-tipped markers or ball-point pens" ! > Glenn E. Yeager > Genealogist > Not that this isn't good information, but I'm not sure what it has to do with my original post, since I never mentioned anything about family Bibles. But FYI, the cemetery information I forwarded to Joe Barnhart for the database was information I copied directly from the grave markers when I visited Green Hill back in August, not from family Bibles. And FWIW, I know that the dates of death are absoluetly correct for four of the individuals I sent to Joe, because I was there at the grave sites during their burials. ;-) Please know, Glenn, that some--possibly many, or most--of us *do* understand what is and is not proper documentation. For example, we'd trust an original birth certificate over a baptismal certificate, marriage license, census, etc., since the birth certificate was issued shortly after the birth, not years later, based upon someone's memory. As for census records, while I know they're hardly gospel (ask me how many variations I've seen of "HENICLE" or "SHARAR" in the few months I've been back to researching...heck, even the Union Army couldn't spell "HENICLE" correctly...which maybe *shouldn't* be surprising, grin, or ask me about the lazy Census taker who one year assumed that since my g-g-grandfather was born in France, so were his wife and children...WRONG!), I've sure found them handy for pointing me in the right direction--or *any* direction--more than a few times. As the saying goes, "YMMV" ("Your mileage may vary"), but I'll keep using the Census forms as a launch pad. Peace, Willie