Thank you all for your answers, and sorry it's taken me so long to respond.
Thanks for the link to the family-history-moments too, RJ Horace. It makes for some interesting reading - and it does appear that someone has managed to find sources for at least some of the information.
I'm still uncertain about what should happen here.... although it would seem logical to leave the birth date and place as unknown on both profiles, and then merge them. They are obviously the same person, even though no-one has found any source or evidence regarding his date and place of birth.
As I'm not the profile manager of either of the profiles, I might just leave it in limbo for the moment, though.
As I said in my first post, my main objective is to try to find a link between my Bugg line (which goes back to Suffolk) and the Samuel Bugg who married Deborah Sherwood in Virginia. I have DNA matches with descendants of Samuel and Deborah, but although the Bugg/Suffolk combination stands out as an obvious link, there are other possibilities.
There is a "source" listed on one of the Ancestry profiles for Samuel Bugg (U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900) that notes his year of birth as 1640 - but I'm not sure how credible the database/source is. Does anyone know of it, and/or how reliable it is?
Details:
Name: |
Debora Sherwood |
Gender: |
Female |
Spouse Name: |
Samuel Bugg |
Spouse
Birth Place: |
EN |
Spouse Birth Year: |
1640 |
Marriage State: |
of VA |
Number Pages: |
3 |
Source Citation
Source number: 24006.003; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3
Source Information
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
The collection is described as:
"This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources. Compiled over thirty-four years by professional genealogist Bill Yates, these marriage records are unique because they were taken from a wide array of sources and stand to provide a great deal of information about entire families."
Anyway... I'll keep working on it, and see if I can eventually come up with something more reliable.
Thanks again, everyone!!
Kind regards
Mary (nee Bugg)