Here are my thoughts on the matter.I would accept the death date and place as correct information because the record was made near the time of the event. As for the informant on the death record, chances are he was not around when your target person was born.  That is apparent when he entered the descendant's . You may have to use the biographical sketch that was published. As for headstones, I would say those might be doubtful.  1.  The birth information is not near the time of the purchase of the stone.  2. Be sure the death date matches what is on the death record.I must warn you, it has been my experience that there are many headstones with erroneous information.  Some stones were purchased near the time of the event, while others may have purchased them years later and placed at the grave.  Likely, the dates are from memory.  Sadly, some stones were placed in the wrong area. But, before you pass by the possibility of the correct dates on the stone, check it out, take a picture of it. Have you checked obits, newspaper articles and such in the local newspapers?  I have great success (so far) with Access Newspaper.com and have found some interesting things.  I access that at my local Family History Center. Don't mean to be wordy.  I wish you good luck in your first lineage society application for a client.  This will be a learning experience for you and him. Cheryl ProctorSouthern Indiana On Friday, December 12, 2014 10:52 PM, Patricia Hobbs via <[email protected]> wrote: I think that it could be argued that the biography is better information given that the informant on the DC was the attending physician. Is there a tombstone? On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Patricia Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > What about Social Security? His SSA would have contained the birth date he > himself claimed. > > Patti > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Greg Lovelace via < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings, colleagues. >> >> >> >> I am working on my first lineage application for a client.  He is >> attempting >> to join the Society of Colonial Wars (SCW) through an ancestor in >> Charleston, SC and has drafted his application/proof statement.  I'm >> trying >> to help him through with the nuts and bolts (sources, citations, etc.) to >> make his application the best it can be.  I am having a problem with proof >> of his grandfather's birth.  He claims a birthdate and birthplace for his >> grandfather that differs from the one on the man's death certificate.  The >> informant for the death certificate was the attending physician, who may >> not >> have known the correct birthdate.  He did not know the names of the >> parents, >> and listed them as unknown.  The only other source the client offers for >> the >> birth information is a biographical sketch from the grandfather's >> personnel >> file at the US Public Health Service, where he was employed as a >> physician, >> obtained from the PHS historian back in the early 2000s.  I am pretty >> confident with the names of the grandfather's parents, as it is based on >> marriage and census records, but I am uncomfortable using this as the only >> source for his birthdate and birthplace.  However, it appears there is >> nothing else except the death certificate that gives that information. >> >> >> >> Have any of you prepared an application to the SCW?  Would the >> biographical >> sketch, filed in the subject's personnel folder in the archives of a US >> governmental agency, pass muster for a lineage application such as this? >> >> >> >> Thanks for any guidance. >> >> >> >> Peace, >> >> Part of the Tree, >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message