Based on my personal experience that shows my ggrandfather arrived in New York on 6 Jan 1860 aboard the Ship Oder AND that he arrived in New Orleans the very same date, perhaps we should be looking at the sources from which Don got his information. I have not reconciled the reason for the discrepancy in my case, only that I know he really disembarked in New Orleans.
Max
Good point. Everyone makes mistakes, indexers and tree-makers included.
Which is why one must always go to the source. Indexes are great for
pointing the way to the source, and are often correct. But they cannot
ever be used as authoritative sources.
One online family tree has my husband's date of death as our wedding
day ..... and if you go by that you'll think I was a bride of 57 and all my children
born during the next 15 years make some sort of scientific marvel of me
.... cloning all those kids on my own until I was 72 years old!
And it also makes my children illegitimate, I guess. Sadly, the person who
did it doesn't know me and won't change it, although I've asked three times.
Some are just racking up quantities of names instead of quality of information.
So don't believe anything until you have two matching original official records....
go to the original passenger list on film or online .... and then get both sets
of naturalization papers!
Maureen