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David GLASS born 1810 in Guilford County

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Re: David GLASS born 1810 in Guilford County

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 5:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Good catch. In terms of those two volumes of marriage bond abstracts, you've already learned that those annotations can give false information. Those annotations were based on information submitted by GCGS members, and people make mistakes. I think it would have been better if the annotations had not been done, although the compilers were certainly trying to be helpful. Unfortunately, people often don't read the introduction to abstracts, or copy them when they copy a page or two out of the volumes, and therefore they might not realize that the annotations are not based on information in the bonds themselves -- which do not give parents' names. My advice to all would be to ignore those annotations completely, and go with the results of research into census, military, land, and will & estate records, etc. The deeper you dig, the better.
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cavenaugh 12 Dec 2009 4:11AM GMT 
KatherineDBen... 12 Dec 2009 12:08PM GMT 
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