Hello All, Just jumping in here on this topic...any information on certificates are as good as what the informant say's...or the person taking the information..I have many certificates with wrong infomation on them..even as late as 2010. I have a illgit child's birth 1936..mother noted her middle name as her Maiden name. [ thank you to the Scottish ways of using surnames as Christian names ]...then that child her self went on to marry..had one child..never div had another child [ we don't know who the father was ] then had three children to another chap and used his name and is buried under that name... Just makes one wonder then why the Privacy act is so stringent..when all is not verified....yes a huge task I know... Food for thought!! Wendy