Robin: I think the information you had came from another database on World Connect #:11466 by a Drummond. It has the one son named Otis Eugene born in 1848. I have found another problem concerning the marriage of Dwight Sackett and Caroline A. Bolton. Some sources have Dwights birth as 1824 Worcester, MA and his marriage there in 1844. It appears that the information there came from the LDS IGI. Files there have two dates and two different sources cited: (1). Dwight Sackett; Male Marriage: 15 MAR 1824 Of, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Source Information: Film Number: 183515; Page Number: 254; Reference number: 9190 (2). DWIGHT SACKETT; Male Spouse: CHARLOTTE E. WILSON Marriage: 15 MAR 1844 Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Source Information: Batch Number: 7130128; Sheet: 14 ; Source Call No.: 0538998; Type: Film It is not clear whether these films are of original records, or are of contributed data. From the information above it appears that there is a problem with the information found on the films. Another problem relates to the name of his wife. The 2nd source gives the name of Dwight's bride as Charlotte E. Wilson. But the 1850 and 1870 censuses give the name of his wife as Caroline A. Sackett. Mary Lou Sackett has the marriage date and place as March 01, 1845, Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT. Mary Lou would have more information about finding records in MI than I do. But if one could get a copy of Dwight's death certificate some valuable information can be gained from it. The answer to question about when it is appropriate to add an individual to your family tree depends upon who is giving the answer. Generally a connection should be a tentative connection until it is proven by source documents. The purists generally insist upon having documentation from primary source documents. And insist upon viewing the document, or image of the document themselves. With the older handwritten documents this is important because letters in the words can easily be transcribed incorrectly and another person reading the same document can read it correctly. So research done by others should be double checked to make sure it is correct. Those of us on the SACKETT-L and members of TSFA are tryiing to correct errors in Weygant's book and add information and sources that he did not supply. At the same time we are compiling information on as many Sackett descendants as possible. So the purists "grit their teeth" at the kind of work I am doing. I make tentative connections and then look to others to help with finding the sources and inform me of any errors I may have posted. I do this because information comes in from others in such a large quantity that I am not able to access and view the source documents myself. But, as you have noticed, I do check the data for inconsistencies and look for clues. Thurmon On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:29:43 -0800 Robin Smith <unsackett@sbcglobal.net> writes: > I understand. I also assumed that Eugene had died in infancy. I believe I > had taken the birth dates from another researchers tree and did not notice > the discrepancy until you pointed it out. I will look for confirmation of > the the date. > > I feel that it is likely that Dwight Sackett son of Asher Sackett Jr. is > indeed the connection I was looking for (given the dates, the older brother > Henry, and the coincidence of a Dwight and Henry of the proper ages both in > Assyria). Do you have any suggestions on how I might confirm this. > When is it appropriate to add these ancestors to my tree. Is there an > etiquette regarding how much confirmation one should have. As I said, I am a > genealogy newby. Again, I greatly appreciate your help. > > Robin