[PW] Ethel Reed Query

[Bristow, Barbara]

Thanks.  I sent this to the editor of our names authority file and she will make the revision.
 
Barbara Bristow 
Editor, OmniFile 
H. W. Wilson 

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From: Donna Halper [mailto:dlh at donnahalper.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:15 PM
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Cc: Bristow, Barbara
Subject: Re: [PW] Ethel Reed Query


At 01:19 PM 5/24/2007, Barbara wrote:


The Wilson Name authority file also has 1876, probably gotten from BGMI.  What's your source so that I could ask them to correct the date?

Barbara Bristow
Editor, OmniFile
H. W. Wilson


The Wilson Name file and BGMI are in error.  I went to the Massachusetts Archives earlier today, and as I had thought, 1874 is correct-- according to volume 251, p. 295 of the (Newburyport  MA) Birth registry; it lists Ethel May Reed as born there on  March 13, 1874. (The top of the page says 1874 spelled out in long-hand, so it's not a typo...)  Parents were Edgar Eugene Reed and Mary Elizabeth (Mahoney) Reed.