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From: Toby & Jim Hurley <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Abigail Stearns
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:08:23 -0700
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I have found IGI entries that are from actual church records. Was just
in SLC last week and found IGI records that were taken from film.

Toby Hurley
> At 03:53 AM 7/12/2007, James Twycross wrote:
>
>
>> I'm tracing a lady named Abigail Stearns, daughter of
>> Samuel Stearns and Phoebe Waite, she married Joseph Temple at Concord on
>> November 28th 1717. My problem is establishing the accuracy of her birth
>> date. A check over Family Search entries gives me a choice of four different
>> dates and logic tells me only one can be correct!
>>
>
> It is quite possible that none of them are correct. Note that all of
> the IGI entries are from church member submissions, and none of them
> are from the church's record extraction program.
>
> Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
> Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
> http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml
>
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