"Linda McDowell" <limcd@cox.net> wrote: > I went to the LDS familysearch site to find who widow Mary A Firth > was living with in 1880 (New York). Fortunately I knew her birth > year. > > Here is the LDS "transcription": .... That's unusual, but not out of the question. The Church has never claimed 100% accuracy, but they sure do a super job miminizing errors. They use a double-entry system (two different people are supposed to enter the same data separately), then the two entries are compared, and discrepancies are resolved if they exist. Is it possible for some to fall through the cracks? Certainly - any time there is manual copying of one set information to make a "duplicate." Everyone should always double check anything that is not a primary source, and even those aren't always 100% (even original census records). When human beings get involved, it's never 100%. <g> Chris bogus.1@mindspring.com