Why do state records differ from those found in the individual counties. In 1980 I went to Friendship in Adams County, Wisconsin and photocopied a birth certificate that listed the town that my great grandfather came from in Prussia. Recently, I ordered the Adams county birth registry film from the FHC in order to decipher the name of the town. Much to my surprise, the record that I found on the film was completely different than the one I photocopied in 1980. That is to say that the record on the film did not list the name of the town or province but merely the country of mygrandfather. What should I make of this decrepancy? It would appear to me that the county records sometimes contain more information than the state records. If so, doesn't this makes state records inherently untrustworthy since you can't totally rely on the state records for a complete and full disclosure of the information given by the parents upon the birth of a child. D.Demske