Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
Barbara Ransdell 5/29/06
Barbara:
I agree with you about proofs, but I would not discard some information just because of only one proof. Remember that we are talking of something that took place 300+ years ago.
I know of people that have ancestors whose birth records, or marriage records were lost during the civil war, the proof is gone, destroyed, lost forever, and that was just 140 years ago. If you add to that other factors (fire, weather, time, mice and rats, carelessness, you name it, etc.) that could have destroyed many documents, it would not be fair to throw away a family Bible with information on your ancestors if that's the only record found.
My family name comes from Spain. I have not a single official document from Spain or Nicaragua that proves that my ancestor came here in the mid 1700s. There are no such records here in Nicaragua. Maybe in Spain, but those records are not online, you have to go there to look for them. My uncle found baptism records in a church in our city that has the dates (late 1700s and early 1800s) and names of the children born to that first Bolanos immigrant, and we accept them as proofs, just as good as an official or public record from the authorities. I feel that a family Bible is just like that church record, it's an extension of the church.
Genealogy is the history of families, and families are made of people whose lives were recorded either by the authorities or by family members, and their presence on earth are forever recorded in a public document as well as in a private one.
Eduardo
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
Barbara Ransdell 5/29/06
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
Eduardo Bolanos 5/30/06
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
Forrest Ransdell 6/16/06
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?
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Re: Ursula Presley b 1664 married to Wharton Ransdell b 1696?