On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 22:11:35 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <[email protected]> wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, Guy >Etchells via <[email protected]> writes: >[] >>It is only when the researcher realises that virtually all parish >>entries of baptisms and burials are transcripts, for example, that he >>or she can understand that errors can and do appear in the registers. > >Would you care to expand on that? What exactly do you mean by "parish >entries", and if they are transcripts, from what have they been >transcribed? > They will often be a transcription from notes previously made in the clerk's diary, notebook or whatever bit of paper was available at the time of the event; the register itself tending to be kept in whatever was the parish clerk's "office" and not necessarily updated regularly or immediately. >>It is not just the big companies that are to blame we the individuals >>taking one research must shoulder the blame as well. >> >>Cheers >>Guy >>