Janice wrote:
> My own question: What are the steps necessary to prove that persons are
> one
> and the same when appreciable differences of name are present? Is it even
> possible to prove? Who provides the ruling?
Janice, the process and the standard that prevail today--whether we are
proving identity or kinship--is known as the Genealogical Proof Standard.
For discussions of it online, you might begin with these two:
"Genealogical Proof Standard," _Board for Certification of Genealogists_
(http://www.bcgcertification.org/resources/standard.html).
Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Building a Case When No Record 'Proves' a Point: The
Genealogical Proof Standard," _Ancestry Magazine_ (March-April 1998), 26-31;
archived online as "Building a Case When No Record Proves a
Point,"_Ancestry.com_, 4 April 2000
(http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article.aspx?id=803#), "Learning
Center" module.
Elizabeth
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