Talk:Sylvester Smith (Latter Day Saints)

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The article says he was born March 25, 1806 in Becket, Massachusetts. This doesn't agree with the BYU Studies Biographical Registers site, which states he was born in Connecticut in 1805.

In the article, in the sentence following the Mass. birthplace,

After some research, I found that various credible sources disagreed with each other about Sylvester Smith's birth details. I favored and used the details from the Biographical Directory of the Joseph Smith Papers, since that project is notable for careful research and verification by a large staff of qualified historians. That entry also introduces a birth date and death details that aren't in any prior work that I could find, which suggests they're using new research unavailable to prior publications. I changed these details and contrasted them against other conflicting reports in this edit: [1] (especially see the footnote). ——Rich jj (talk) 21:50, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]