If you cannot find a person in a record where they are “supposed” to be, ask yourself how your search process would change if one detail that you think is correct actually is not? Or if one detail about the person is wrong in the record? Maybe you are looking in the right place, but the date of the event is off. Maybe you have the date right, but the location you think is right is not. Maybe the person’s age is off by one year. There are a variety of ways this could play out, but changing one thing could alter where and how you search for that person. That’s exactly what I had to do when searching for a birth certificate based on the date of […]
Inscribed in stone does not guarantee the information is correct. It reflects what was known by the person paying for the tombstone inscription. What they knew may have been correct–as it is in the illustration. Or what was given to the stonecutter was incorrect. Or the stonecutter could have made an unintentional error. Remember that humans provide information to other humans who inscribe that information on tombstones. Join Michael at either the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City this summer!
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