Mitchell doesn't have a trained "eye". I HAVE seen the originals and the "transcribed" work Mitchell himself is referencing in Londonderry. Yes, the original town records are at PRONI , NOT Londonderry. Mitchell looked at the same stuff I did. And since, NINIAN is also in the St. Columb's Cathedral records for that time, and other records including Walker's book on the Derry seige; then the educated eye would have been looking for the right spelling for a name he was clueless about. Guess Mitchell also forgot to mention, the only original letter written post-1690 that is signed by survivors of the Seige is hanging on the Walls at St. Columbs. Now a trained researcher would have also used that as a primary source, unless he was just making a cheap copy of something already written and didn't want to do any actual work. Being an "author" of a book doesn't make you trained or educated. When the book is a COPY of previous lists, it makes you a copier. People who buy those books should know the difference. I KNOW you wrote it exactly how he wrote it, I corrected HIM cause the copies of the originals are sitting in front of me. That's how an educated, trained researcher does his work. Colin Brooks The 1718 Project In a message dated 11/12/2011 9:15:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lmerle@comcast.net writes: Sorry, but this book says Minian. I did not make a mistake. Due to the shortage of typewriters <grin>, the originals are handwritten and subject to interpretation. You'll have to talk to Mitchell or review the original to determine why it is transcribed in this book by Mitchell. Probably because to his trained eye, it looked like an M. The modern eye would like to read it as Ninian. But most likely we need to 'go' with the educated, trained eye when doing transcriptions. In the case of looking up transcriptions, my case, one does not interpret. One types exactly what is there. If one disagrees, one adds a comment in brackets. Otherwise one gets a bad mark in Research 101 class. Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: BrooksGen4@aol.com To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:04:32 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders etc. Boyd correction Sorry but need to correct one BOYD name. Given name is NINIAN not Minian from that list. The others are correct. Colin Brooks The 1718 Project ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message