[or-roots] more on DLC's

[Cuprum4445 at aol.com]

While you're looking Les, please watch for our Oregon pioneers, the  Hagey 
and/or Harpole/Harpool families (whenever you have time that is.) 
Thanks,  Gerrie
 
 
In a message dated 1/31/2010 9:21:45 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
reedsportchapmans at verizon.net writes:

As with  any source (I was going to say secondary, but it applies to primary
sources  too) you have to be sceptical about information in the DLC book. As
is  pointed out in the introduction there are a number of sources for error,
if  the claimant didn't spell their name out, or didn't spell period, and  
it
was left up to the recorder to write what they heard. Mistakes can be  made,
and of course the folks making up the book could have compounded the  
errors.

I certainly know how easy that is.

Okay, I had a shining  example and it turns out to be another case of my not
reading it right the  first time.

Maybe I'll go to bed early tonight, like before  11.

Anyway I am willing to look for things in the Spectator and will  try to go
back at least a ways in my email files to see if folks have  anybody I can
find in there.

I will note that spelling in the paper  was also a bit imaganitive.

By the way the paper only covered  1846-1854

Les  C

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