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

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 >

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 >> > >