Thanks Tomas & Claire, The comments have really helped not only clear up my "invisible" Minnie but settle some other issues I have had between Ancestry and FreeBMD. Thanks again for your help, Scott B Canada --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Tomas Christie <tomas_christie@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: Tomas Christie <tomas_christie@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Herger Family To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com Received: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 6:33 AM Scott, To add to what Claire has said, this is the same entry transcribed by two people.  This does happen with FreeBMD sometimes, but by checking as Claire has suggested it is usually possible to resolve. To set your mind at rest about the dual Ancestry entry, if you look you will see that it actually gives the FreeBMD Birth Index as the source, so it is just duplicating the original transcription error.  It is very important to record sources with new information and even more important to learn to evaluate resources.  As a general rule one should find two primary sources of a recognised origin, but one should always be aware of transcription errors, duplication and unreliable sources.  In your case you have a transcription error which has been duplicated by Ancestry, so a good example of what you don't want. Other sources that should always be double checked are LDS entries in hte IGI and other peoples' trees, as they are not primary sources and quite often contain errors. You say that Minna / Minnie is at school with the rest of her family in 1901, which I thought sounded as if she might be on the old side to be a scholar / pupil. I looked at the original and she is actually a Governess in training at the same school as her siblings.  This suggests that she might have been a good pupil at the school and has been kept on as a trainee teacher, which is not the same as being a pupil.  You had probably realised that anyway. Tomas. ________________________________ From: Claire <ocean9@tiscali.co.uk> To: mykinmik@yahoo.com; eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 11:23:52 Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Herger Family Hello Scott, If you look at the original index for December 1881 there is only one entry and that is for Minna Herger. Go to Freebmd and enter Herger in births. Click on the glasses to the right of the entry for Minna. On the right hand side under display format, choose which format to use and then on the left hand side click on view the original. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to open the file, click on OK. Regards Claire       ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/