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[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Sam Blacketer
<sam.blacketer at 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