Talk:Roger Dudley

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Reliability of contemporary sources
I would like to point out that just because a historic person states that another person was alive or dead at a certain period of time does not always mean they were. People are imperfect with imperfect memories and imperfect knowledge. In my own family, doing genealogical research, I have discovered numerous errors in records. One should always try to verify basic facts through additional sources. If two sources do not agree then seek a third. My grandfather's grave stone and death record states he was born in 1896 but his birth record, draft record and census records show he was born in 1894. So this means that my grandmother, the source who supplied his date of birth to the town clerk and the person who carved his head stone, was mistaken and got her dates mixed up or my grandfather might have lied to her about his age. Point being that if an official record from Massachusetts in 1956 can be wrong about a date of birth then it is even all the more plausible that someone from over 400 years ago could just as easily be mistaken about the date of death of someone they knew or knew of. Until this is resolved by examining additional sources, no date should be presumed correct for the date of Roger Dudley's death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9000:FF00:8E:75F7:9E61:F857:54F3 (talk) 02:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)