Good advice to remember! Renea -----Original Message----- From: Dorothy Gray <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:00 AM Subject: [TNSUMNER] PROVE IT >Hi, Sherry: > >Whether you are looking at the LDS data, or a census, death or birth >certificate, or any other document, the information it has on it is what >the person THOUGHT to be correct when he/she furnished the information for >the document/record. For example, if my sister were in charge of my >father's funeral and she couldn't remember when his exact birth date >was..or exactly where he was born...then she would make a guess, and put >that down. Same way as when a census was taken. This goes on even today, as >in the past. > >Regarding the LDS files, the same applies. Anyone who has researched their >family or someone else's, can submit their data to the large database of >the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. (Also called Church of Jesus >Christ-Latter Day Saints.) That information will have some errors in it >somewhere along the line. > >But, like Joyce says, it may be a useful roadmap for you to then go ahead >and try to prove which is correct. Keep searching other documents, write >down your sources, and maybe you will come up with an answer later on. >Keep asking questions, and stay on these lists as someone ELSE may have the >info you are after. > >Good luck. >Dot > > >