[or-roots] Family Search boo boos

[Leslie Chapman]

We could argue about the place name till we are blue in the face; the big problem with reading it as Orange is there is very clearly "vill" at the end of the word and the only place name I could find in any reference for NH starting with O and having vill in it was Orfordville. I have to agree even digitally enhanced it really looks like 1846 and not having at their hands the information that Lavinia Melvin who married George B Foss was born in 1857 there is no way to fault their interpretation of the date, even though it is obviously wrong.  I find a lot of the time I have to rely on the text version to figure out what the image actually says and I assume often the people indexing these pages are familiar enough with the geography of the area to be able to fill in the blanks. I haven't tried to find a death record for Hugh as he most likely isn't in the Family Search data base since for NH they only go to 1915, so I probably never will know for sure
 which O town he was born in and more to the point why? Daddy being listed as a Peddler of timeware(?) in 1900 might explain that, but I thought Peddler's typically traveled a route and their family stayed in one location?

Interesting puzzles we find in digging into our ancestry.

Les C

--- On Thu, 12/22/11, Kith-n-Kin <Kith-n-Kin at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Kith-n-Kin <Kith-n-Kin at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Family Search boo boos
> To: "'or-roots mail list'" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Date: Thursday, December 22, 2011, 7:20 AM
> I do see an "f" reads O[----f---]
> [---]
> 
> However, on the date of birth, I read July 7th 1846. 
> Without having other
> information, the transcribers are left with what they see
> -- When was the
> child born?
> 
> Pat
> In Tucson 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
> On Behalf Of W David
> Samuelsen
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:27 AM
> To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Family Search boo boos
> 
> it is very clearly ORANGE. There's no f in it.
> 
> David
> 
> On 12/21/2011 11:46 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> > indexed as being in Orange when I am pretty sure it is
> Orfordville which
> is now Orford and I can guarantee she didn't give birth to
> her fourth child
> nine years before she was born.
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