Glenn: We all realize your humble beginings, howqever toilet paper is not a suitable subject in spitye of what you may think. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Two cemetery questions > >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 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Folks, This subject is closed. Barbara PAFRANKL list admin