Yes, "HISTORY" is really just a pile of conflicting opinions supposedly based on "facts". Sometimes we can sort out the opinion from the facts and we are better for it. Most times however, the "facts" are the perceptions of the beholder and the best we can do it figure out the context in which the beholder lived and perceived the events. I know it to be my nature to give "spin" to the "facts" of my life at times [like in resumes or in social conversation] so we can also expect that families gave "spin" to their family histories to present them in a better light. We just have to separate the "spin" from the "facts" when we can. Unplanned pregnancies were often hid by a couple moving out of town and then claiming that they were married in the town they left so that by the time they settled in the new town the birth was "legitimate." This is how the "blessing" was invented. When a couple had no record that they were married other than their oral claim but they wanted to baptize their child the church had to "bless" their union so that it appeared legitimate and so the child could be baptized. I am not suggesting that this is the case in the situation you described earlier. It is just that this is another possible explanation. ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Wilson <twilson11@rocketmail.com> To: Jim Rubins, Napa, CA <jmrubins@napanet.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [SEAMAN-L] Veracity > But my HISTORY file, as you call it, just keeps > getting bigger and bigger and bigger, ad infinitum. > > Thanks for the opinion, I agree > > Terry > > > > === > Terry Wilson > 40 S. Gamble Street > Shelby, OH 44875 > Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, > HARLAN/HARLAND,HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, > JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, > KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, > McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, > TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON > > > > > > > > ---"Jim Rubins, Napa, CA" <jmrubins@napanet.net> wrote: > > > > As you suggest the marriage may have been performed > in one place and > > recorded in another. In some cases the second > church may have "blessed" the > > original marriage and then recorded the "blessing" > with both the original > > date and the date of the "blessing". > > > > It also may be that the researchers knew that > people were living in a > > particular place and ASSUMED that they were married > in THAT place. [It is > > always dangerous to assume...] > > > > AND there may have been two couples with the same > names, however, this is > > the least likely of the propositions. > > > > Until you can see the original records yourself you > probably should record > > both sets of facts AND to whom those "facts" can be > attributed. You MAY be > > able to resolve this. Then again you may never be > able to resolve this > > conflict and it will just get added to the pile of > other conflicts of data > > that are stored as "HISTORY". > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Terry Wilson <twilson11@rocketmail.com> > > To: <SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:11 AM > > Subject: [SEAMAN-L] Veracity > > > > > > > OK you experienced and savvy group of > researchers, I > > > need an explanation - or postulation - or wild > guess. > > > I have a conflict here: > > > > > > >From church records in Yorktown, Westchester Co > NY: > > > James G. SEAMAN m Mary CRONK on 29 Jun 1822 > > > > > > >From IGI Batch M526081 and also from a private > > > researcher: > > > James Grummon SEAMAN m Mary CRONK 29 Jun 1822 in > > > Bergen NJ > > > ----- > > > What are the odds of 2 James G. SEAMANs m 2 Mary > > > CRONKS on the same day hundreds of miles apart > ????? > > > > > > Why ????????????????????? > > > How ????????????????????? > > > Huh ????????????????????? > > > > > > Both supposedly documented in original material > !!!! > > > Other research now indicates NJ as the most prob & > > > then they headed north & then west. Could the > church > > > in Westchester Co transcribed/recorded their > marriage > > > date if they joined the church there for awhile ??? > > > If Westchester Co was her home area (quite > possible) > > > could they just have recorded the marriage there > ???? > > > > > > Somebody please offer an explanation that I can > buy. > > > > > > Terry > > > > > > > > > > > > === > > > Terry Wilson > > > 40 S. Gamble Street > > > Shelby, OH 44875 > > > Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, > > > HARLAN/HARLAND, > > > HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, > > > KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, > > > McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, > > > TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >