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| LIFE IN SOLERA | NOVEMBER 2022 | 27 Editing Your Tree As we build our respective family trees, the larger they become and the farther back in time they go, the more the possibility of errors or misinformation for a person occurs. This misinformation occurs in many forms: It can be as simple as punching in a wrong date or assuming a date provided in a data base is a birth date, when it really is a baptism date. A similar situation can exist for marriages. Is the date given for a marriage the actual date of the marriage or is it when the marriage banns were posted? The difference in birth or baptism dates can be several years and the difference in posting of marriage banns versus actual marriage ceremonies can be several months. When it comes to deaths, there can be discrepancies of a few days (actual death versus burial date) or death location versus where a person is actually buried. Then, there is the last name for a person, especially a wife's last name. Often, a married couple will show them with both having the same last name, but the wife's last name should be shown as her maiden name (her 'nee' or 'born as' name). It is possible that her maiden name and her married surname may be the same; I.e., cousins married each other or two separate families with the same last name marry into each other's family. Also, you want to have the wife's maiden name as she could have more than one marriage and therefore multiple married surnames. Another couple of things to look for when editing your data on an individual involves a lady (wife) who had a child, but was not yet of a reasonable age (usually 13 years old or older) to bear a child. It is possible to have had a child at a younger age, but extremely rare. The opposite is true for people, male or female, who die at an age of say 90 to 100 + years old. This is especially important for relatives who died in the 18th or 19th centuries, because the average life span was around 50-60 years during earlier times. So, checking the birth and death dates for people living to 90 or 100+ during these earlier centuries is a good thing to do. These are some of the things I have encountered in building my tree. Hopefully, this will help you in building or updating your tree. ~ Bill Cramsie ANCESTRY GROUP Last month Richard Crowe presented the story of Bill Keys, a miner and homesteader in Joshua Tree National Monument who was ambushed in 1943 by Worth Bagley, his neighbor. There will be no meeting of the History Group in November. The History Group is looking for people to give interesting talks. Contact Richard Crowe at (951)769-1580. HISTORY GROUP

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