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    1. Re: [B&S] Response from Family Search about errors in new Bristol data.
    2. Hi Chris Thanks for sending the reply from Family Search. It appears to me it is more or less a standard reply to people reporting individual errors in the online database. It appears Family Search have not understood the size of their error in attributing so many entries to Holy Trinity church in Abbots Leigh, Bristol, Somerset. I will certainly contact them with some of the many instances in my own Bristol families which should read St Philip & Jacob, Bristol, Holy Trinity, Kingswood and other parishes to the east of the city which lie in South Gloucestershire and came under the Keynsham registration district. I also notice St Luke at Barton Hill, Bristol is listed as being in Somerset instead of Gloucestershire. How many future researchers are going to be on the wrong track and end up in Abbots Leigh churchyard scouring the gravestones for their ancestors who have no connections with that parish at all? I feel sorry for any who will have come a long way, perhaps from USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, on a fool's errand. I think the vicar at Abbots Leigh should open a tea shop this spring and summer because I think he's going to see an unusually large number visiting his church. Bernice in Bristol

    02/11/2011 08:56:42