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Sources are already on the profile, but I would appreciate it if someone would re-word the biography of Vincent-6331.  It's a short biography but it's too wordy. Any help appreciated.

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Hi John

Changed Data Doctors to Biobuilders and biographies as more relevant to this group than the data doctors group

Profile is much improved by work already done

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Thank you Janet, that sounds good to me! They definitely built that biography up!

Answer 1

I changed the Current Last Name and Other Last name because the Current Last Name should be 'last' married name.

By adding some blank rows between each 'statement' helps to make it more readable: birth, marriage 1, marriage 2, death, burial.  I added the Find a Grave source to the Burial for inline citation and the 'death' source to the Death as an Inline citation.

That last source is very strange since it seems to be from multiple sources, but that is what the source citation is.

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Working on what Linda did .. I rearranged it just a little, to place the statement re the children in chronological order prior to their father's death.

Also reworded the last paragraph a little, to, hopefully, make it a little easier to read.

I also added the WT ID#'s to the parents where Linda had placed them after the birth statement.  (Pondered removing the double mention at the marriage statement, but left them there as the groom's parents are so mentioned.)

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Added to what Melanie added, I added Census for 1850 - 1870.  I found the 1860 Census for George and Lucy, as well as for David and his 1st wife Laura.  The 1870 Census has David and Lucy, with children from both of their 1st marriages, as well as children that were born to each of their 1st marriages, but not seen in 1860 Census.

1850 Census proves that they were married abt or during 1850, but had no children.  They were living with other Templeton family members for 1850 and 1860.

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The name difference on the stone is probably because the stone was done with her name when it was initially created when George died, so they only had to add the dates later.  I see that on many stones, at least now a days

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Wow! Thank you Linda, Thank you Melanie! Thank you Fiona! You guys are awesome! I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. My goal was to get Lucy connected to her parents, siblings, and husband's.  I was just hoping to get my wording edited and you all went above and beyond! I don't know how to express my gratitude enough. Linda, you even added her children. Talk about a nice deed, thank you so much!

When I was reading the guidelines about using the correct last name, I thought they said something like use the name that they were using at the end of their life, so I changed her last name from Fuller to Templeton, even though her legal last name was fuller, because 2 other sisters of Lucy married  a Templeton brother. Boy, my Vincent ancestor's were crazy about those Templeton boys! I would be interested what others think about using Templeton rather than Fuller since her tombstone uses the Templeton last name. I had trouble finding her grave untill I realized that there were a lot of her ancestor's in the cemetary that I found, so I just used her first name to search for her in that cemetary and then I found her buried next to her first husband, George Templeton. I'm leaving her name the way that Linda changed it, but I would be interested in getting some feedback now that "you know the rest of the story," as Paul Harvey used to say.

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I think her last name at death is the one that should be shown as CLN (Current Last Name).  Her name as shown on the gravestone is most likely because the plot and the gravestone were purchased long before she died, about the time of the first husband's burial.  Unless she, or her later husband, left written explanations of why this was so, we can only speculate.

I have a great-grand who remarried after the first spouse died.  Said spouse was buried in a multiple plot, presumably (according to family notes, anyway) because the surviving spouse was expected to be buried alongside.  A second marriage was not allowed for (as in was not expected), so after survivor remarried, the plot for them was later taken up by the infant son of the couple's second child.  Surviving spouse was later buried in a  separate plot nearby, with second spouse.

Same with another great-grand.  One partner died, spouse did not remarry, but the portion of the original burial plot set aside for them was later used for another family member (a daughter), as the surviving spouse had moved some hundreds of miles away and was buried there.

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Thanks John, we all contributed little bits which makes it look nicer and more complete.  I have plenty of relatives that bought a cemetery plot, expecting to be buried next to their 1st spouse, but life and other things get in the way and they don't end up being buried there and their names change from marriage.  I am sure if you pull the records from that cemetery, she is listed as Templeton, as well as her 'last' married name, which isn't Templeton.  Searching for Templeton will find her since it is in Other Last Name.

When I add a census source that has a family list, I like to copy / paste it into the profiles.  It is useful for many reasons - shows approximate age (approx birth), died (they are not seen on next census), married, spelling / indexing differences (helpful for other source searching), in-laws living with them gives you maiden names, etc. Now that the children are listed, that gives you a start with some sources already when you want to add her children's profile.  Husband's profiles have some sources, also.

Answer 2

Is she called Lucy or Mary? I don’t think it is overly wordy, though I think her current last name needs to be the one on the last legal document, her death certificate.

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I’ve changed Mary to Lucy.

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Good catch Fiona!!  I hadn't caught that earlier.

Answer 3

And for their hard work, I added Fiona, Linda, and Melanie into the Acknowledgements section thanking them for the work on the biography edits.

Thank you, Ladies!

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Thanks Chuck!!.  Just trying to show how some little things can change a profile.

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I agree with Linda.

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Thanks Chuck, that was very nice. I wish I had done that myself. They definitely deserve it.