Dates don’t always match
In recording the comings and goings of people from past centuries, I have to make certain choices. Interpretive choices, for want of a better explanation. You see, on occasion, what one document has recorded does not match well with another. Think of it as colour descriptions.
It would be wonderful to think that when you have a family history, all of the facts are correct. I have a cousin who rejects any reference he hasn’t actually seen in the original form. Wonderful as a concept but hardly realistic. After all, the census taker did nothing more than mark down what someone else quoted. That tombstone? Generally ordered and engraved after the fact (there are exceptions, but even then…) All in all, genealogy is a game of approximations.
Here’s an exercise. Look over at that tree with birds in the branches. How many birds? Again?
I’m trying to compile some information for a person in another province. I’ve been given data that was collected by a third party, and the dates don’t reconcile with what is available online. What to believe? I’m unsure about some of the information, but it does link up (later). For now, I’m going to accept a middle-of-the-road scattering, and if better information appears, then someone else can fix the blemishes. This is far from an exact science.
Last evening, I received my new solar panel. Today, the sky was overcast (of course). I’ll try again, later in the week, to see what level of voltage/current is generated, and if playing with the angles makes a visible difference.
