marriage date [30 October 2009]
Wonder if the marriage date shown might be old style? Connecticut Nutmegger, p. 41:226 has abstract of will of Caleb Pitkin of Hartford dated 6 Mar 1766 which still names daughter Hannah Burnham. This would be consistent if marriage date was actually 24 Mar 1765/66, i.e., the given date 24 Mar 1765 was old style.
BTW, the will also names sons Joshua, Caleb; daughters Dorothy wife of John Goodwin, Sarah wife of Nathaniel Olmsted; Jerusha wife of Samuel Olmstead; grandchildren Thankful and Mabel Bidwell. --Jrich 09:19, 30 October 2009 (EDT)
- I agree with your conclusion re: marriage date and was unaware of the additional source. Thank you. I am new to werelate and the wiki format. I stumbled upon these pages and was disturbed that so many were not sourced, so I thought I would jump in and get my feet wet. I see that you are interested in adequate sourcing. Perhaps I could ask you some questions pertaining to this project?
- 1. Did I provide enough information for the actual sources (i.e. I did not fill out all of the boxes each time for a book that resides in the public domain)?
- 2. I was concerned about the future possibility of broken or lost links, so I included the actual text for each citation. I think it is helpful to have it right in front of you, but I can appreciate that, if many sources are involved, including the text for each citation might be too much. What is your opinion?
- 3. Oftentimes, the same source citation information applies to several individuals and/or families (in my case family units listing vitals for parents and children). Since the process of creating a citation appears to be unique to each person or family page, I found myself having to re-enter the same citation information over and over again each time I wanted to attach it to an individual page. I must be missing something... Is there a quicker and easier way to attach the same citation information across multiple person and/or family pages without having to re-create a new citation each time?
- 4. Lastly, would you like to update the relevant pages with the info that you provided? I wasn't sure from your message .....Thank you again! --Cos1776 11:59, 30 October 2009 (EDT)
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