From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jun 14 15:52:13 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5ELqDjb020854; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:52:13 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5ELq8M7030679 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:52:08 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5EJG9FI018906 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:16:09 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k5EJG9cH018905 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:16:09 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k5EGawFI018507 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:36:58 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5EJCl8W012033 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:12:47 -0600 X-Envelope-From: joe2phil@drizzle.com Wed Jun 14 13:12:47 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5EJCkjb012024 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:12:46 -0600 Received: from jetspin.drizzle.com (jetspin.drizzle.com [216.162.192.5]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5EJCfsK007652 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:12:41 -0600 Received: from y9w6c2 ([67.136.137.64]) (authenticated bits=0) by jetspin.drizzle.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5EJCObS023944; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:32 -0700 Message-ID: <010901c68fe6$8c5b94e0$40898843@y9w6c2> From: To: "gordon crooks" Cc: References: <448ED3C6.3070205@charter.net> <003501c68f13$9320f8c0$7b988843@y9w6c2> <448F0C79.2010009@charter.net> <00dc01c68f5a$0b415f20$7b988843@y9w6c2> <001101c68fa5$4ffe75d0$fc8e13cf@gordoneyz72m3j> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] AFN ? Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:24:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0624-1, 06/13/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hello Gordon , You must enjoy the sound or your voice , talking the same old Blabber yea yea I`ve heard it all before !!!!!!, I have close to 25 years of reasearch done And have prior submittals in the Ancestral File that i can NOT get corrected , I stopped worring about it years go !!!!!!! , Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon crooks" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:25 AM Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] AFN ? > Actually you have another thing which can be part of this problem. A great > deal of the information on LDS is from submitters and very little is > confirmed by sources etc. In my case I have no less than 9 errors on the > same ancester. One distant relative "guessed" and others picked this up and > repeated it. That plus the fact that surnames were mis-spelled over a period > of time or even changed by a family leads to duplication. I recently > transcribed all the tombstones in a 1738 cemetery and found an example of > this the father spelled his name Eaches and that's on his tombstone, his > oldest son spelled it Eachus. This went back and forth for 4 generations (14 > graves in the plot). > > Gordon Crooks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:26 PM > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] AFN ? > > > > Hello John , It is my opinion that you in fact have TWO distinct and > > different people > > Only be a personal visit with staff in Salt Lake City will you get a > > change > > made , Which I doubt will happen , My visits to the Joseph Smith building > > on > > Temple Square were less than satisfying , if you insist on there being > > only > > one person put them into your data base and note what it is people are > > looking at , Phil > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Berryman" > > To: > > Cc: > > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:05 PM > > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] AFN ? > > > > > >> There is a difference and I noted that when I came across it. It's the > >> spelling of the last names. However, there is more than enough > >> supporting data to show that these are the same people. I not had this > >> happen a often but I have a few of these to deal with. The question is > >> how do I deal with this in my records or who can I contact to clear this > >> up? John > >> > >> joe2phil@drizzle.com wrote: > >> > >> >Hello John , I have been working the LDS stuff for many years , never > > have I seen the same person with 2 numbers ,there must be something > > radically different to get two numbers , What is it ???? , Phil > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >From: "John Berryman" > >> >To: > >> >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:03 AM > >> >Subject: [ROOTS-L] AFN ? > >> > > >> > > >> >>Good Day Listeners, > >> >> > >> >>I've a question for someone with more experience than I. I've a few > > cases where I've come up with more than one AFN for the same person. For > > now I've recored both. However, I'd like to know how you experienced > > people > > deal with this issue. I'd truly welcome any suggestions on this. > >> >> > >> >>Cheers, > >> >>John in WI USA > >> >> > >> > > > > > > > >