Change Joseph's birth date to 1545

Sandy Coleman, I think I've already asked you this is another thread, but I'm curious about how you're making changes to profiles. On one hand, I think it's fantastic that you've started editing profiles instead of asking for help doing it -- it's great to see you working as an engaged user!

On the other hand, it looks like you've said in some other posts that you've made some guesses/approximations for dates without having actual sources. Can you clarify your approach? (And I know you didn't edit this particular profile.)

I'm really excited and grateful that you're working on profiles, but I just want to make sure we're not inadvertently creating additional confusion about dates in the process.

Sandy Coleman This is my family - the Wilbores - and I have a cousin on here who is very very steeped in the family genealogy. Let us take a look at this. Thanks for the heads up.

The most cited source is The Wildbores in America which I have a copy of. There are a couple of NEGHS articles on the English ancestry of the Wildbores.

The children seem to be born between 1646 - 1660. With Ann(e) born in 1646 and Nicholas Jr born in 1660. There should be eight children according to some sources. Nicholas Jr (my 13th great grandfather) was the youngest. However there are not many firm dates with this family despite there being deeds and wills so we know the names of the wife, children, the land they owned, the profession.

Joseph died 1520. He is not one of the children mentioned in the will which mentions Thomas, Robert, Josua, William, Nicholas, and Anne.

As for the dates of the parents, although the dates given are 1604 and 1606, I also have seen the father Nicholas Sr. as born in 1604 or 1614 or 1620. He died circa 1683.

@Joseph Wilbore
I am currently in PA doing research on my NJ and PA ancestors. When I return to Boston in 2 weeks I will go into the New England Historical and Genealogical Society library and see what they have on record and correct the profile.

Thanks Roberta! (Roberta is my Wilbore cousin.) I have a subscription to NEGHS and am looking at / printing the 1958 articles by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour "The English Ancestry of Samuel Wilbore, of Boston, and William Wilbore of Portsmouth, R.I.".

It's time to clean up the older Wildbores, but of course, as I said, we won't find conclusive dates for births or deaths for some of them.

I haven't found birth dates in books. I have a few more Wilbore manuscipts to look through and then I'm on to parish registers. Any good suggestions for which registers to look through? There are far too many to take a stab in the dark. I was in at NEHGS on Friday and Saturday but worked on families I could do without looking at my tree. I don't know when I'll go back. Possibly Saturday if Geni is stable.