Anyway, I ask for the reference on information she put in her book on our common ancestor James Shows. It was an obscure entry in the book, I believe in the notes, that James Shows made a claim on damages to him from the Fort Mims Massacre and had made a sworn statement to a judge. That was news to me and I wanted to see what his claim was since I knew at the time of the Fort Mims Massacre James Shows was a minor and two his family was still living in Georgia. {Fort Mims is one of my studies} Vikky gave me the reference but warned me I wouldn't find much detail since it was only a list of names. Then later made it known to me that she was a little embarrassed that she may have left something out or included a mistake in her book. From her reference I found another reference that lead me to the sworn statements. I bought the reference for further study and found that indeed James Shows was listed but after cross referencing the list to the actual statements his name on the list was a transcription spelling error of the name James Short, a man who was in the Fort Mims area, according to census and military records.
Now, I didn't beat her over the head with this mistake, it was forgiveable, and I wanted it to be true, however, it was a detail on her own ancestor that she failed to dig into completely. How many mistakes are there in the rest of her book?
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David Upton