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It's always fun when you tell someone that their information is wrong and you are backed up by 30 different sources and their response is "My Grandma told me that and she was no liar. Are you calling my grandma a liar?"
One set of my grandparents both lied about their birth on their wedding registration papers.
My gm made herself 4 years older. She had run away to be with GP and I’ve always assumed she needed to be that age to marry without her parents permission.
I’ve noticed a number of people on gp’s side of the family have her birthdate as the incorrect year. Should I bother to let them know the correct information?
My gp (DC1) was born in Newfoundland but wrote down a place in Canada. A younger relative of his was born there and given the same first and last name (DC2). I’ve noticed a few people have linked my gm as the spouse of DC2 which is funny because he would have been 7 years old. Should I let them know her spouse was DC1, not DC2? My concern is gp’s parents are supposed to be DC2’s parents as well. They could have used the same first but different middle names, I suppose, but I understand that one of DC1s sisters had a baby out of wedlock so maybe it’s that. I don’t like having the wrong information out there but I don’t want to upset someone by pointing out my gm was married to ggp’s oldest son, DC, not their youngest son DC.
Thanks.
Mistakes are sometimes done for a reason.
My father-in-law's birth certificate's date is wrong. He was born before Jan 1922 - the date listed on his bc. The reason was his parents wished to delay his entrance into the Italian army. When the men born in 1921 were called up, he would be the youngest. Instead, he'll have another year of maturity if he went with men born in 1922.
I've tried correcting people's misinformation. It never worked. People cling onto misinformation like their lives depend on it. Whatever!
It's really hard to deal with spelling when people sometimes change the spelling. I only recently became interested in genealogy because I discovered my biological father and half-sisters. Bio-dad's last name has changed spelling several times over the generations and it's really hard to search when you don't know when or why the spelling is different. Luckily the work on that side is mostly all completed by others who went before me. The records show that the last name changed spelling at least 2 times over the decades and centuries since they left their country of origin.
My mom changed the spelling of her middle name at some point. Her license and BC spell it in different ways.
It's really hard to deal with spelling when people sometimes change the spelling. I only recently became interested in genealogy because I discovered my biological father and half-sisters. Bio-dad's last name has changed spelling several times over the generations and it's really hard to search when you don't know when or why the spelling is different. Luckily the work on that side is mostly all completed by others who went before me. The records show that the last name changed spelling at least 2 times over the decades and centuries since they left their country of origin.
My mom changed the spelling of her middle name at some point. Her license and BC spell it in different ways.
Sometimes the changed spelling of names can happen bc of official records.
Quarles is a family name of mine. I spoke to a man who's last name was Qualls. When I mentioned the similarity to Quarles he said his family name had originally been Quarles but a Census taker sometime in the 19th C. had written the name as it was pronounced, with a non-rotic R.
You do know that Newfoundland is part of Canada, correct?
Not before 1949. His parents moved the family to Canada in 1908 when he was a baby and he married in 1931. Sorry for the confusion. I’m used to everyone knowing that fact.
Sometimes the changed spelling of names can happen bc of official records.
Quarles is a family name of mine. I spoke to a man who's last name was Qualls. When I mentioned the similarity to Quarles he said his family name had originally been Quarles but a Census taker sometime in the 19th C. had written the name as it was pronounced, with a non-rotic R.
So his family officially became Qualls.
Oh yes, those troublesome Quarls/Quales/Qualls and probably many other variations. Does make it interesting.
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