On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote:
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This is what I've done on a few occasions when it's obvious that one source has got it wrong - see the footnote relating to the birthdate of Emlyn Garner Evans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlyn_Garner_Evans. However there are always some where it is impossible to tell which of the conflicting sources has got it right; see Edward Doran for an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Doran.
For Doran, you would have thought the years of education at Manchester Grammar School could be looked up and that would shed light on a difference of *seven* years between the two proposed birth years (1885 and 1892). It's normally only one or two years difference between disputed birth years.
Carcharoth