Looked for years for my ggg grandmothers birth- Only by pure accident found whoever had entered the birth certificate had incorrectly been entered. She was born (and registered ) as 'Clegg' but was entered in the Maxi and CD as 'Flegg' bit of an error, but how many others are entered incorrectly. Fran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nunya" <ajcass@tpg.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Help required with locating a birth certificate > > Although I don't need help locating the Birth certificate I would like to > say I do not reley on Maxi. I have my g grand father's birth certificate and > have all the correct numbers, but he does not come up on Maxi, nor does most > his family. I tried many different spellings along with just the year and > ref. number. Maybe some registrations are missing. I did find mine not on > the CD, but on good old fashion fishe. Mine is not from Geelong, but South > Melbourne so it is not just the Geelong area. Food for thought. > Caroline Trezise > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter O'Sullivan" <sullivan2076@hotmail.com> > To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:40 AM > Subject: [GEELONG] Help required with locating a birth certificate > > > > Hello, > > > > I cannot locate a birth entry in the Victorian BDM index. > > I have tried via Pioneer Index on microfiche and also via Maxi on-line. > > > > I know the name, parents names, year of birth (1880) , place of birth > > (Geelong) and a registration number. > > However when these details are entered, no entry comes up. > > > > The name is also mentioned on the mother's death certificate along with > the > > age of the person. > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Geelong and District web site : > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/ >

Hi Fran, And that's exactly why you should NEVER trust an index and always keep pursuing the source - human intervention and errors. Unfortunately, people being people, it's very hard not to try to convert an illegible name into a familiar name - classic example and similar to your experience. My surname is FUSSEN (French-Swiss) but my grandfather's death in NSW was indexed as TURNER. It might sound a long way off but if you write it quickly and then look at the transposition it's not that far off the mark!!! Just took me more than six months to convince the NSW Registry to go back to the original registers for the date and district I specified because I KNEW it would be there!!!! Thank goodness I perservered and finally got what I wanted - that's how I found out how it was indexed - no way would I have found it otherwise <vbg> Regards ..... Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Campbell" <neils1@bigpond.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] incorrect BDM entries > Looked for years for my ggg grandmothers birth- > Only by pure accident found whoever had entered the birth certificate > had incorrectly been entered. > She was born (and registered ) as 'Clegg' but was entered in the Maxi > and CD as 'Flegg' bit of an error, but how many others are entered > incorrectly. > Fran