This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4FFBAIB/1055.1 Message Board Post: The dates I removed were estimates that someone inserted into publicly posted trees that were not supported by Carlton Sanford's work, the census, the SSDI or other reliable information. Earlier versions of my tree were influenced by the public trees. See my comments on fictitious dates in previous posts. I have not removed any dates provided by Carlton; on the whole his work seems to have been quite reliable. In a few cases the census supports slightly different dates, which I used if they were consistent, and especially if they suggested an earlier birth year. People rarely say they are older than they actually are, although there are a few exceptions. Some of the unsupported dates remain, I'm sure. Feel free to point them out.