{"id":10752,"date":"2019-10-20T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2019-10-20T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:41:59","slug":"is-it-the-right-person-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/is-it-the-right-person-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It the Right Person Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m working on man named Rufus D. Stephens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I work on Rufus, I become aware of the need to remember that I may not have the same person just because the name matches. The other details matter to. My problem is made slightly easier because the Rufus in which I am interested usually uses the middle initial “D.” But he could easily appear in a record without that initial. I have absolutely no idea what the initial “D” stands for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first knowledge of Rufus is a 1850 census enumeration in Michigan where he is living near a married woman who is believed to be his daughter. As I find Rufus in other records in other states (he’s believed to have lived in Michigan, Illinois, and New York, as well as the province of Ontario), I have to constantly ask myself: is this the same person? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if I think it is not the same person, I have to ask myself if the records that I think are all from one Rufus really are from one Rufus. That evaluation needs to be constant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because maybe the “new” record is my Rufus and maybe some of the records that I already have in my Rufus profile are not really all for my Rufus. I shouldn’t throw out that new record too quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because maybe what I think is my Rufus really isn’t my Rufus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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