User talk:Truth Seeker

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Collaboration [11 September 2018]

Regarding your recent post on John Hunt:

• Your post should include sources. You did not live in the 1600s and you clearly got this information from somewhere. You should give credit to your sources, and more importantly, identifying sources allows other people to assess the credibility of the data, part of the process of collaboratively seeking the truth.
• The previous page gave the death date with correct double dating, as shown by probate dates. Your page did not provide double-dating for a date that needed it. Please be sure you understand double-dating if you are going to post data before 1752.
• This is a collaborative site. Each ancestor gets only one page. Your post created a new page for a person who already existed. Besides violating the rule of one page per person, this detached the other page from his proper parents. I have restored the old person by merging.
• If you dislike the data that is there, you need to provide evidence that previous data is wrong. In the face of competing evidence, analysis of source credibility is necessary and sometimes when the answer is indeterminate, dates may need to be entered as alternates, accepting that no single answer is provable. In this case, the two sources that give a birth about 1646 apparently relied on a misreading of the gravestone giving age at death of 78th year. So this was answered by citing the Find A Grave page which has an image showing the gravestone which clearly says 70th year. This adjusts the birth estimate to about 1654. Now we not only support the right answer, we have shown why some sources have given the wrong answer. --Jrich 13:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your update on Capt. John Hunt. He is an early relative of mine and the evidence you showed is clear. I have updated my genealogy.--Khs2000 15:05, 11 September 2018 (UTC)