"Ken" <kwar6996@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >I have just started setting up my family tree electronically. I was > given a couple of scanned images of handwritten charts & have been > entering them. Ummmmm. My advice would be not to use this data. I was with dud info given with assurances that it was all properly researched when I began as a young genie decades ago. Now if given info I will only store it in a folder until I've done the work and know that any mistakes will from now on be mine and not someone else's. Details are sketchy & the notes contradict each other. > So for some key people, I purchased images of the records held by the > Dept of Justice, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. > > One key person was my ggrandmother, Mary Angelina. > > I have: > The marriage registry entry for Peter & Mary Anne her probable parents > in 1864 (goldfields). The registry entry shows a date & location for > the marriage, his parents as Oliver & Rosa and hers as James & Mary, > and the place of birth (Italy for Peter, Tasmania for Mary) & ages > Peter 23 & Mary 16. > > Mary Ann Geline Birth record, 1868. Mary Angelina is pretty close sounding so it could be your grandmother. Shows parents Peter & Mary Anne, > married in the same place on the same day with matching birth > countries & surnames as the first document. Shows her two elder > siblings correctly as to name & age (as recorded later), but shows her > parental ages at the time of birth as Peter 29 & Mary 28. A discrepency (sp?) in the age is not really of huge concern but it might be worth getting the BCs of the other siblings. I've picked up some incredibly useful info by doing that even though at the time I was very broke and couldn't really justify the expense. It was worth every penny in retrospect. > Peter's Death Cert 1912 - ages right, birthplace right, offspring > right, marriage details right, but parents as Peter & unknown mother. Not unusual for one or more parents not to be known or even correctly identified on a DC. Who was the informant for death details? What info do you have on the informant? > Third child is shown as Mary Angelina, right position in but listed > as presumed dead. Who gave the information to the Register of BDM and where was Mary Angelina living at the time of the death of Peter? If the informant to the death was one of the other children and Mary Angelina was living at some great distance from her parents and siblings, then there may not have been no contact between them for year. > Mary Angelina Death Cert 1917. Parents right for name & occupation, > age right, birth details right. > > I cannot find any other records that match people, place & time. Would > experienced persons presume I have the correct records but that the > data contradictions are human error? If so, where do I go next to > look for data that may corroborate or refute this? Which State were they living in? Without knowing which State then it is fairly difficult to suggest anything meaningful. But some qucik thought - are there any Monumental Inscriptions for Peter and his wife? Could they have ever been mentioned in local papers of the time? "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given.iinet.net.au>