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Originally Posted by historyfan
I have collected obits that were flat out wrong. Try to get a funeral home record to compare.
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Obits and "official" records (such as death certificates) can be so wrong -- seen that myself too many times. However, there can be usefulness in wrong information. For example, recently I found a death certificate for an ancestor, and his place of birth given was Tennessee. For fact he was born in Georgia, so why the heck did the informant say Tennessee???!! With some digging it turns out that the deceased's mother (noted as Unknown on the certificate) had been born in Tennessee, a factoid I did not know, but now do thanks to "wrong information".
For the OP Howard555, who's trying to discover the "Jones" surname connection, researching others in the obituary may point to the relationship between "Jim Jones" and "R. Wilson". Howard555 may encounter all kinds of information (correct and incorrect), but the answer is out there someplace.
Just had another thought ... using some of those people-search websites (whitepages, familytreenow, etc.), relationship connections show up. Of course to get all the info and details means to cough up a fee, but I've gotten a ton of leads without paying a cent.
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