I must stick my nose into the 'proof of information' discussion. I have found errors on death certificates, marriage licenses/certificates, newspaper obituaries, and even books about family histories. One book has my grgrgrandfather, Andrew Grove, married to Rachel Boyer. In reality, he was married to her sister, Rebecca Boyer. An aunt of mine told me that my grgrgrandfather, Isaac Miller, had fought at Gettysburg. Even showed me his name on the Penna monument. After much time spent tracking this man, I found out that it was the wrong Isaac Miller. However, I met many great people on the way. Just thought I'd mention these tidbits. Who or what can you trust?? N. M. Lorz

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Nancy Lorz <[email protected]>wrote: > I must stick my nose into the 'proof of information' discussion. I have > found errors on death certificates, marriage licenses/certificates, > newspaper obituaries, and even books about family histories. One book has > my grgrgrandfather, Andrew Grove, married to Rachel Boyer. In reality, he > was married to her sister, Rebecca Boyer. An aunt of mine told me that my > grgrgrandfather, Isaac Miller, had fought at Gettysburg. Even showed me > his > name on the Penna monument. After much time spent tracking this man, I > found out that it was the wrong Isaac Miller. However, I met many great > people on the way. Just thought I'd mention these tidbits. Who or what > can > you trust?? > N. M. Lorz > Hi N.M. Lorz: IMHO, if we were not an eyewitness to the event, any event, we can not _prove_ it happened. We do the best we can: gather all extant records and make a decision, draw conclusions, based on the records we have found; publish our findings and ask for constructive criticisms and documentary evidence of our error, if any. Sounds like you are on the right track. By following each person from cradle to grave, we will likely find the answer we seek. Time-consuming and expensive, oh, yes, but accurately completed. You have heard the old saying: it is true because it is in print? You can now refute that old saying----- Best of luck. Lou > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAYORK > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAYORK Message Board are gatewayed > to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may > not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking > on the link and replying on the board. > ************ > Visit the York County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~payork/ <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Epayork/> > > ------------------------------- > 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 >