[or-roots] Family Search boo boos

Fri Dec 23 20:22:18 PST 2011

    New Hampshire, Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947

Name: 	Hugh Foss
Marriage Date: 	23 Sep 1916
Event Type: 	Marriage
Marriage Place: 	Plymouth, New Hampshire
Birth Date: 	abt 1896
Age: 	20
Gender: 	Male
Father's Name: 	Geo B Foss
Mother's name: 	Lavinia E Melven
Spouse Name: 	Helen J Pelkey
Spouse Age: 	19
Spouse Gender: 	Female
Spouse Father's Name: 	M Pelkey
Spouse Mother's Name: 	Lucy Doucette
FHL Film Number: 	2058033

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: 	Hugh Foss
Age: 	3
Birth Date: 	Jul 1896
Birthplace: 	New Hampshire
Home in 1900: 	Plymouth, Grafton, New Hampshire
[Plymouth, Grafton, New Hampshire]
Race: 	White
Gender: 	Male
Relation to Head of House: 	Son
Marital Status: 	Single
Father's Name: 	George B Foss
Father's Birthplace: 	New Hampshire
Mother's name: 	Lavinia E Foss
Mother's Birthplace: 	New Hampshire
Occupation: 	View on Image 
<http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7602&iid=004120396_00792&fn=Hugh&ln=Foss&st=r&ssrc=&pid=65487761> 

Household Members: 	
Name 	Age
George B Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487756> 
	44
Lavinia E Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487757> 
	43
Guy M Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487758> 
	18
George L Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487759> 
	14
Noah S Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487760> 
	11
Hugh Foss 
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=65487761> 
	3

Source Citation: Year: /1900/; Census Place: /Plymouth, Grafton, New 
Hampshire/; Roll: /T623_946/; Page: /2A/; Enumeration District: /72/.

    World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Name: 	Hugh Foss
County: 	Grafton
State: 	New Hampshire
Birthplace: 	New Hampshire;United States of America
Birth Date: 	7 Jul 1896
FHL Roll Number: 	1711719
DraftBoard: 	0

    Social Security Death Index

Name: 	Hugh Foss
SSN: 	710-18-6422
Last Residence: 	953 (U.S. Consulate), Canada
Born: 	7 Jul 1896
Last Benefit: 	953 (U.S. Consulate), Canada
Died: 	Nov 1980
State (Year) SSN issued: 	Railroad Board (Issued Through) (1951-1963)

On 12/23/2011 7:40 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> 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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