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/1012 Message Board Post: I have noticed the following patterns in several online files for the desecedants of Thomas Andrew Sanford. Deaths are given as birth year plus 70 years, with "about" before the year in the absence of any real information. Birth years of a spouse are given to show the man four years older than the woman, in the absence of any real information. Again with "about" before the year. Birth years of a string of children are shown as two years after the marriage, with 2 year intervals for succeeding children, again in the absence of any real information. For example, my grandfather, Randolph Thomas Edwards, is shown as born in 1871 four years before his wife, whose birth year is correct, and dying in 1941. The correct data are Dec 29, 1856 and March 1922. My father was shown as born in 1898 (correct) and dying in 1968 - correct tyear is 1991. As I find these patterns, I remove the (non)data. I suggest others do so as well.