Dori, You raise some excellent questions! I do know a living person (in Georgia) can get inaccuracies to a birth certificate changed on something called, I think, an amended certificate. However, for one that was done many years ago, the best thing might be to send some documentation to the LDS folks and request that changes be made to their records. Also, you could post the information on the internet at Rootsweb World Connect or other such sites. It is frustrating to see wrong information "out there". I have something similar with a Revolutionary ancestor to whom extra children were attached. It is very difficult to get people to change their records I have found. Many are more interested in the quantity of their compiled records and not the quality of the research. Keep trying! Others may have better suggestions. Marilyn Matthews Lear ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: Re: LDS Records and accuracy > But what do you do when you have researched the documents and the documents > are wrong?? A close friend for whom I have tried to establish a family tree > has pointed out the errors as follows: > > My friend is one of 10 children born to Mr. X and Mrs. X ---- when the birth > certificates were written five indicated that Mrs X was born in Illinois, > five indicated that she was born in Kansas. (It WAS Kansas.) > > Mrs. X death certificate indicated that she was the daughter of Mr. CHARLES > something (of Illinois). She was the daughter of Mr. ANDREW (something) of > Illinois. (I have the census copy). The information given to the doctor > writing up the birth/death certificates was given by someone who knew > absolutely nothing positive about Mrs. origins, but this all appears in the > IGI files. WE know the difference, but when generations down the line may > try to establish the tree, they will have a very hard time trying to figure > it out. What to do when the birth certificates of 70-90 years ago are > wrong?? > > DORI >