At 09:09 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:39 PM Sunday 11/13/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
For example, do you know whether the first Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States was born in 1747, 1755, or 1757;
do you know about his birthdate controversy?
No, but I know I have the same problem (although the dates are
roughly a century and a half later) with my father's father's birth
date, in that I have original or copies of three official records
(census, marriage certificate, WWI service papers) which each give
a different year (same month and day) for his birth.
How many census records do you have for him? If you have, say, 3
different census records, and 2 of them agree with either the
marriage certificate or the WWI service papers, the year for which
more things agree is more likely.
If the WWI papers give an earlier year of birth, he may have been
lying to get in.
(Though I'm sure you've thought of all this already....)
And I'm sure you can guess that those are the only three "official"
records I have which contain his birth date. :D
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
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