----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Smith" <suenchris@ukonline.co.uk> To: <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:16 PM Subject: Wrong district numbers > You shouldn't assume that the District number is wrong - it may well be the > District Name. I spent some time looking for the birth of a "relative" in > Rotherhithe, and it took 3 revisits to the ledger before I realised that the > entry I wanted was there, with a district name of Rotherham, but with a > district number of 1d. Exactly so! My clasic example (real) is Hayfield 3a The transcriber was troubled by TWYS, and wondered whether it wouldn't be better to "correct" the volume to 7b That would have been disasterous, as it was actually the district that was wrong (proved by looking at page ranges), and a more appropriate correction would have been Hatfield 3a Making corrections based on a theory of what was right would in that case, have made the entry even more incorrect.