User talk:Tracie

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Family Records [26 September 2019]

"Family Records" (seen on Person:John Brown (587), for example) do not carry much authority. It can mean anything from a family Bible on the good end to the "manuscript of my dead mother" which a poster views as irrefutable despite proven errors, as I have encountered, on the bad end. The family records need to be identified because others may have different information, and without knowing the exact source of your information, they cannot attempt to assess the reliability of your source versus their own. So if your information is correct, they do not learn why they are wrong, and if it is incorrect, they cannot attempt any kind of structured rebuttal to prove your information wrong. All they do is say is that they find their sources credible and so assume yours are not.

In this case, the Rehoboth records, as published, say "last Friday Sept. 1650". Last Friday doesn't make sense as the Friday just past because the record doesn't contain the date it was written, so it appears to mean last Friday OF Sept. 1650. 1650 used the Julian calendar, and in 1650, the last Friday of September was the 27th. This strongly suggests your family records were possibly compiled from other sources, and the 7 was lost when the date was copied. But I can't say since I don't know where it comes from. --Jrich 01:48, 27 September 2019 (UTC)