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Help please with 1st wife and children.
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Jools | Report | 3 Sep 2006 17:17 |
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Deryn - pardon me for saying so, but you simply cannot assume he had been married before just because you calculate he was 42 when he got married. In fact, you don't even know that he was 42 when he got married to your gran. If you really don't know whether he was a bachelor or widow on marriage to your gran, or have no corroborating proof of his age, then you need that MC. |
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Deryn | Report | 3 Sep 2006 17:31 |
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Jools, I do know that he was 42 when he married my gran. I have his birth and his death dates - I knew him personally. I am not asuming that he was married before my Uncle and Aunts told me he was. I have proof of his age. Thanks for the help. |
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Jools | Report | 3 Sep 2006 23:07 |
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OK, so you're sure of hiis age. But I still think it is unwise to rely on family recollections as to whether or not he'd been married before. Your family's recollections could be accurate, but an awful lot of people have done trees based on family recollections only to discover memories weren't accurate & had to start again. Sorry if I sounded as if I was implying memories were wrong, but checking is a jolly good idea - a bit like getting good foundations for the building before going further. Jools |
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Victoria | Report | 4 Sep 2006 12:53 |
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Have you seen Ego's thread about faulty memories? Victoria |
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