u/Plenty-Ad231

Opinions on estimate years

Sorry if this is the wrong flair.

Hello! I strongly dislike when people put random birth or death dates for individuals that have no sources or rationale to back it up. I've seen this mess up trees and make absolutely 0 sense. So because of this, I only put source backed dates or estimates that I'm 90% sure about. Today I was working with a branch of my family tree. My 2x great grandfather had 5 brothers. I know the order of their births, and I know 2x great grandpa was the youngest and was born in 1888. How bad is it if I put each brother as separated by 2 years (ie: 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888)? Based on when their kids were born, the estimates would make sense. This specific branch comes from an area that doesn't have records from that time, so it's all word of mouth. I have the urge to do it, but don't want to potentially spread any misinformation (this is a searchable tree on Ancestry). What should I do?

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u/Plenty-Ad231 — 4 hours ago

Brickwall: Late 1700s Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Hello!

My ancestor was José Feliciano Novoa (FamilySearch ID: PM9Q-S2Y). He married Rosa González (PM9Q-78T) who died on or shortly before 23 May 1826. They had at least one son named Felipe Eleuterio Novoa González (GLGV-DDG) who was born on 25 May 1804 in Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. He lived in Rionegro (which at the time of his birth was under the parish of Bucaramanga), married Francisca Megía (G5FP-PTR) and had 6 children. Shortly before her death they moved to a neighboring municipality of Matanza, which is where they had their sixth child. Shortly before or after Francisca's death, Felipe had a son with a single woman named Remigia Guerrero (GLR9-GT6) in 1834. Not long after, he moved back to Rionegro where he married a second time to Dolores Montañez Contreras (PM9Q-BFR) in 1838. They had another six children. Dolores died in 1855. I don't have Felipe's death/burial record.

I've tried practically everything I know to break the brick wall of finding Jose Feliciano's parents or other children. Someone please help. This line is the most important to me.

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u/Plenty-Ad231 — 1 month ago

Help with two Colombian 1661 baptism record transcriptions

Hello everyone! Title is self-explanatory. Here are the records:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YMP9-98Q?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YMP9-983?

The first one is Pedro son of Juan Diaz Sarmiento (no. 378). I think he's the son of an indigenous woman. There is a word that looks like Juana or Guane followed by mestizo/a. I need help interpreting that and transcribing everything below the part where the priest writes the godparents.

The second one is Bernabe son of Juan (Diaz I think) Sarmiento (no. 380). I also think he's the son of an indigenous woman. This one is just a mess and I definitely need help with transcription.

Thank you to anyone who can help!

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u/Plenty-Ad231 — 2 months ago