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Do the following to identify this person clearly:  
Do the following to identify this person clearly:  
 
*Make a time line of information given in the record of the possible match person. This time line may be quite small but will establish dates and places clearly.
<br>Make a time line of information given in the record of the possible match person. This time line may be quite small but will establish dates and places clearly. <br>On your time line, include other persons mentioned in the record who were associated with the possible match. <br>Use an analysis chart to identify and evaluate what you know. <br>Evaluate what that information may suggest.  
*On your time line, include other persons mentioned in the record who were associated with the possible match.
 
*Use an analysis chart to identify and evaluate what you know.
<br>POSSIBLE MATCH One Record Time Line for a Possible Match: Samuel Richman and others (name) <br>
*Evaluate what that information may suggest.  
 
Date<br>Record: Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ (name of record)<br><br>1839, Apr <br>Sybilla Richman and Samuel Richman, members of Class No. 3, Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ.<br><br>1839, Nov<br>Isaac Richman and Jonathan Richman "Joined on probation," Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ.<br><br>1840, Oct 4<br>Isaac Richman and Jonathan Richman "Received into full membership," Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ.<br><br>1841, Sept<br>Jonathan Richman "removed" from Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ.<br><br>1842, Apr <br>Samuel Richman "removed' from Woodstown Methodist Church, Salem Co., NJ.<br>


<br>To print a working copy of a time line for a specific record, click here.  
<br>To print a working copy of a time line for a specific record, click here.  
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