I would say if you have done a reasonably exhaustive search for birth information that the biographical evidence is the best you have. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [TGF] Help needed on lineage application From: "Greg Lovelace via" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, December 12, 2014 6:51 pm To: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Lovelace via 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 > �