Another story like this - my friend could not find his gg grandfather in
the census even tho he knew where they lived. He knew their name was
not originally Braneff but because of a lisp it have evolved into that.
He knew his gg grandmothers first name as well but still couldn't find
it.
They lived back in the swamps of Louisiana so I started searching page
by page, after about 50 I found it!! His last name looks like Braunt
but it's hard to read, I found his "wife" tho they weren't married yet
and their one year old child. Many times in the "back" country families
were formed and not married until the preacher came by. If he had
searched for his grandmother under her maiden name or the child he would
have found them.
Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: carpenter-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
[mailto:carpenter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gerald
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:37 AM
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] vol 2, issue 97
Hi Folks, Terry is so write,we need to heed his request not only here
but in
all genealogy lists, I had searched for many years for my GGreat
Grandfather and Had put his name out in many posts to many different
mailing
lists,I found nothing, I did find a man named Thomas Conant Tuttle,but
my
Thomas's middle name was Corwin, It came to about ten years of searching
when I realized that Thomas Conant Tuttle Jr was really my GGreat
Grandfather, Thomas Corwin Tuttle, He had always signed his name as
Thomas C
Tuttle, so someone took for granted because his father was Thomas Conant
Tuttle that his middle name was Conant, and listed it that way, It even
got
into a book that researchers of the Tuttle name use a great deal for
research , So Long story short, Everybody thinks I am wrong and they are
right, because his name in the book says Conant and not Corwin, But I
have
the documents to prove it was Corwin, I have to send his LWT to everyone
along with his Civil War enlistment card, to prove to them I am right,
It
has been one frustrating battle. So Please change the mistakes, and if
you
are not sure about something, wait until you have concrete evidence like
a
document proving your information correct before posting it. Thank you
Terry
for bringing this to our attention.
Jerry Tuttle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carpenter, Susan" <susan.carpenter(a)oregonstate.edu>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] vol 2, issue 97
Thanks for this comment - I nicely asked a woman to change the
incorrect
first name of my grandmother in her database to the correct one and
she
told me that this is what she had always had and was going to keep
it
that way. So my grandmother is forever known as Lydia Brasher Ashworth
instead of Lida Brasher Ashworth.
Susan Ashworth Carpenter
-----Original Message-----
From: carpenter-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
[mailto:carpenter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John R Carpenter
(JRC)
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 5:07 PM
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] vol 2, issue 97
Hello,
I agree with Terry.
Often what we do informally winds up becoming part of the record when
we
forget to remove the informal. Then the informal is carried forward as
formal.
For example, I used the title "Captain" for the immigrant, William
Carpenter
(b. 1605 England) for many years to tell him from the other immigrant
named
William Carpenter (b. 1608-1611). That was wrong and I changed it.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Carpenter" <diluvius(a)yahoo.com>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] vol 2, issue 97
I hate to keep having to say this, but it keeps
coming up, and if nobody corrects it, people
don't learn from it, so it must be said --
> alot of the researchers do put
> in the Coles as the maiden
> name for the mother to keep all the Joseph
> Carpenters straight.
It is still _wrong_. It misleads people. It
compromises the accuracy of their information.
It diminishes their search for the truth -- and
that affects all of us.
If the name is supposed to be the mother's maiden
surname, state that separately. If the audience
is experienced enough to understand professional
annotations and the communication medium supports
the formatting, clearly indicate it is a maiden
name, but don't just stick it in the middle with
no annotation or differentiation -- people who
aren't experienced don't know that it's not a
middle name, and then it gets repeated as though
it were a middle name, like they did in the
original post, where there was _no_ annotation
that it was _not_ a middle name and it was
clearly being _misrepresented_ as a middle name!
If we don't set and uphold a reasonable standard
for truth and accuracy, we will wind up with a
lot more junk genealogy than we already --
unfortunately -- have to deal with.
Terry Carpenter
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