Talk:George Smith (Assyriologist)

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Date of birth

The following comment was recently posted here Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#George_Smith.2C_Assyriologist:

According to British Baptism Records: 1839, page 128; Census Records - England: 1851 Household 82, 1871 Household 262 (Ancestry.com).George Smith was born in Middlesex, London in 1839. Please correct this error. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michal1226 (talk • contribs) 01:41, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

My response:

This isn't really the correct place to inform us of this, though thank you for the information. Unfortunately, Ancestry.com may not be considered a reliable source for this on its own, particularly given that George Smith is likely to have been an exceedingly common name. I think all that can reasonably be done for now is to put a note on the article talk page, in the hope that it is investigated further.

I will perhaps see if I can throw any further light on this, though it may be difficult to be definitive about it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:55, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, the dates given in the article accord with those given by the Encyclopædia Britannica website: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/549731/George-Smith. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:25, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

fix link

--Smith, The Chaldean account of Genesis Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection. or see HTML format-- Only the HTML link works, the other external link gives an error message. 71.163.114.49 (talk) 12:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]