Cathy,
I have set up a "Personal Knowledge - " source for each of
the relatives who have given me information. (and I have one for me!) When I
cite the person, I put the date and type of "communication" in the detail.
email, interview, phone call, letter, questionnaire, etc. All of this
Red, I would add the information, because your daughter-in-law is obviously
important to you, her adopted parents and their ancestors are important to her,
and genealogy is important to you both. Plus who knows what exciting
discoveries you will find! And that's the really fun part of genealo
I have dates I KNOW are impossible, but I leave them there, show why you don't
accept it, check the problem to be ignored, then make a 'to do' to disprove the
problem. My favorite is a baptism in the the church records on Feb 30, in a
non-leap year. There were also baps on the 1st 2nd and third
If you can't locate your original source for the birth date of the
father, it's just as likely that you meant to enter 1877 as it is that
1887 is his actual birth year (or that the cemetery transcription you
derived this from was in error for a similar reason.) I would either
delete the original en
I just ran the potential problems report. On one record it was noted that
the person was born when a parent was younger than 13 years old.
I got the birth dates and date of death from cemetery files. I don't know
where I got the birth date of the father. The year I have is 1887 and the
year of
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