----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Russell To: Bristol And Somerset@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 9:12 PM Subject: research The recent LDS pilot has provided some additional information but as previous transcriptions, there can be and are errors. Since the information provided to the files is transcribed from other sources, there are many mis- read or mis-copied registers. I have found a number of discrepancies in my family records. I have proved the errors by obtaining other records; eg original death registration. One must always be wary and use many sources. The mother's name for my gggrandmother in the LDS file was given as McDowell; I found a possible sibling ( same father, same Parish), checked the film in Sault Lake City Family History Library to compare handwriting of the original entries and the brother's mother's name was McDonald. Only when I acquired a death registration from Scotland for my gggrandmother's death in 1902 was I certain her mother was also McDonald. I could have been off and running searching a McDowell ancestry which doesn't exist! Karen in Canada