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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: LDS Accuracy
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:03:02 -1000


Karen Courtenay wrote:

>> I would not trust the information in the IGI at all without checking
>everything. Much of it was submitted by amateur genealogists with no
checking by
>others. For example, I found that a particular Mass. Clark family, that of my
>>great-great-grandparents, was listed with all ten children given as those
>>of Aaron and Sarah Clark, while I know from my own family records that
>only some of the children belonged to both of them - while some were from his
>>previous marriage and some from hers. Since none of the children
happened to
>>be the same age, anyone just looking at census records could assume that
>>they were all full siblings, as the submitter apparently did. If s/he
>had bothered to check marriage and death records, this mistake would not have
>>been made.
>>
>>I don't know how accurate their medieval records are, but I am not
>impressed with their 19th-century ones....
>>
>> Karen Courtenay
>

Karen,

Very nicely put. Kudos to you---You back up your position with
Sound Logic and Evidence.

My Hat's Off To You.

Sincerely and Happy New Year, Spence Hines

D. Spencer Hines---"It may be said that, thanks to the 'clercs', humanity
did evil for two thousand years, but honored good. This contradiction was
an honor to the human species,and formed the rift whereby civilization
slipped into the world." "La Trahison des clercs" [The Treason of the
Intellectuals] (1927) Julien Benda (1867-1956)

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