User talk:Marxiem2

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Hello, Marxiem2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Joan Crawford have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and needs to be reverted. Please go back to the article history and choose "undo" to revert back to sourced year of birth. Census records are unreliable as they are often one year off. Crawford's daughter, Christina, twice noted in her book "Mommie Dearest" that her mother's birth year was 1904, not 1905. This is the best reliable source we have. Ancestry.com is not considered a reliable source for Wikipedia purposes. Your cooperation in this matter is appreciated.

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 * Please review the sources below and if need be start a conversation on the article talk page.--Moxy (talk) 03:10, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Crawford's year of birth is uncertain as various sources claim 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1908. The 1910 census gave her age in April 1910 as five years old. Crawford herself claimed 1908 (the date on her tombstone), but most modern biographers cite 1904 as the most likely year.

Crawford's daughter Christina, in the biography Mommie Dearest (1978), states "1904" twice:"'Publicly her birth date was reported as March 23, 1908, but Grandmother told me that she was actually born in 1904.'""'My mother was born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, in 1904, although when she came to Hollywood she lied about her age and changed the year to 1908.'"}}