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? >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 > -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf `Where a calculator on the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.' Popular Mechanics, March 1949 (quoted in Computing 1999-12-16)

On 12/12/14 22:11, J. P. Gilliver (John) 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? Written up from notes. I've certainly come across cases where the baptism & burial several days later are written up in a single entry so clearly the writing up of the baptism and subsequent events didn't happen until at least the occasion of the burial. Churches with chapels of ease were another instance. There seems to have been a big problem in getting the chaplains to send in their returns, at least in the cases I'm familiar with. BTs seem to have been sent in at the end of the year which raises an interesting question - were they transcribed from the PRs at year end, written up during the year at the same time as the PRs or written up at year end from the same notes as the PRs? There can be discrepancies between BTs & PRs. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk