Small Nuggets -The Death of Gold Prospector John S. Hodge

pa href=http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2040964img src=http://z.about.com/d/genealogy/1/0/y/Y/john_hodge-letter-1850-deat.jpg alt=Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University width=250 align=right border=0 hspace=4 //aFriday's emWho Do You Think You Are? /emepisode touched on a number of interesting research dilemmas - including what to do when you encounter conflicting information. In this case, the conflicting information was an obituary for the son of John S. Hodge which stated that he died en route to the California gold rush in 1849, while his son, John Eber Hodge, was apparently born in late 1850 or in 1851. How could John S. Hodge be the father of John Eber Hodge?/p pIn this situation, the researchers kept digging. Following the gold rush trail brought out in the obituary, they discovered a John S. Hodge from Ohio listed in the a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://pilot.familysearch.com/recordsearch/start.html#searchType=standard;collectionId=1401638;surname=hodge;givenName=john;placeId=11;eventPlace=California%2C%20United%20States;p=recordResults1850 census living in El Dorado, California/a. From there, I'm not sure of the research path they took, but I encountered a clue to John S. Hodge by searching for John S. Hodge and gold in a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://books.google.comGoogle Books/a. a href =http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/256458.htmRead more.../ap style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/03/08/small-nuggets-the-death-of-gold-prospector-john-s-hodge.htm"Small Nuggets -The Death of Gold Prospector John S. Hodge/a originally appeared on a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/"About.com Genealogy/a on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 08:39:43./ppa href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/03/08/small-nuggets-the-death-of-gold-prospector-john-s-hodge.htm"Permalink/a | a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/03/08/small-nuggets-the-death-of-gold-prospector-john-s-hodge.htm#gB3"Comment/a | a href="http://genealogy.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/03/08/small-nuggets-the-death-of-gold-prospector-john-s-hodge.htm#038;zItl=Small Nuggets -The Death of Gold Prospector John S. Hodge"Email this/a/p