My biggest concern now about Rene Rimbault-7's profile is the person assigned as his father, Jacques Rimbault-24. The Change log shows that Jacques started out from an Ancestry tree with birth/death dates/places indicating he died at age 119, with no sources. Then general sources were later added for Bona Arsenault and the Nova Scotia Archives, but not cited to the individual data items. After a couple of comments were posted on his profile questioning his advanced age, the death date/place was deleted. So now only a birth date/place is shown on the profile.
After looking into it more closely, I've found that the source in the N.S. Archives probably refers to an image of the Port Royal registers with Jacques's burial record, which supports the death date/place that was originally entered into the profile. Stephen White's DGFA, p. 1398, uses this same record for Jacques Rimbault's burial. However, DGFA does NOT show any record of his birth other than the birth place of Nantes (from the burial record), nor any relationship with the family of Rene Rimbault.
I haven't yet had the opportunity to review Arsenault's volumes to see if that's where the birth information for Jacques came from. But considering that White has already reviewed Arsenault's work, and there is apparently no other citation to the actual birth data, at this point I'm thinking that wherever it came from, it can't be for this Jacques Rimbault because of the impossible age at death.
So my conclusion is that for the profile of Jacques Rimbault, the Birth date/place is incorrect and should be removed, the Birth place of Nantes should be entered as uncertain, the Death date/place should be reinstated, Jacques should be disconnected as Rene's father, and these sources need to be cited and a Research Note added explaining the conclusions.
If there are no objections, that's what I intend to do. Does anyone have any comments about this?
