Thanks to the great help of the Corinth Town Clerk several years ago a mystery was solved. Spent several years looking for Mary BORYDING (my gggrandmother) in Corinth (presumable wife of Robert GORDON). Boryding is Danish name and didn't think there were any Danish settlers of Corinth in 1800. Then, I had the opportunity to look at the original signatures (many thanks to the Corinth Town Clerk) it showed that her name was Mary BOYDEN. Whoever entered her name had put something else down and then tried to erase/blot it out. It was clearly BOYDEN in the original. However, when photocopies were made for the films, all of the letters showed up and the result apparently looked like BORYDING so the transcriber entered that name. I was very glad to see Boyden since lots has been written about that family. Alice Gordon -----Original Message----- From: vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Harriet E. Cady Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:38 PM To: vermont@rootsweb.com Subject: [VERMONT] Hiram Hefflons death certificate or Obit That's right Darrell. I thought if I looked at Hiram's death certificate I might find a clue for Silas Nicholas Hefflon born Ireland march 18, 1772 and Polly KNAPP Hefflon born RI April 2, 1785. The parents of Hiram say he was born RI in 1804 but where? Harriet >________________________________ > From: Darrell A. Martin <darrellm@sprynet.com> >To: vermont@rootsweb.com >Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:56 PM >Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Hiram Hefflons death certificate or Obit > >On 1/16/2012 12:41 PM, Harriet E. Cady wrote: >> Hi Lisa, I have had two returns saying Lowell and Lobdell so maybe he >> lived by the Lake.  Its always a mystery how things get twisted on >> old records. It certainly should be in an old newspaper. Harriet > >Harriet: > >No mystery, really. Things like place names change. People misunderstand >the material they are working from. Handwriting can be peculiar, or just >plain terrible. Typists make errors. Transcribers make errors. Ink gets >smudged. Fly specks land on the copy machine.... > >As the King of Siam says in the movie, "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera." > >Darrell > > > >*************************************** >List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm >Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/  > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message