At 06:50 28/04/2017, David wrote: >...I agree the Marriage certs for England and Ireland leave a lot to be desired ... Not just on the information given, but also its accuracy. It's worth reading (I'd borrow it from the library rather than buy it as it get repetitive after a while) Michael Foster's book on the subject "A Comedy of Errors". http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/ipage.html HTH Andy.

In my experience the marriage certificates are OK in the main; yes there are obvious errors very occasionally in spellings but the poor old parish priest or clerk relied on what he was told. I had one case where the fathers were swapped round. The problems arise in the transcription process onto the indexes, but in most cases these can be resolved with a bit of detective work, especially by using the post marriage census. Ian S Vicary Vicary/Vickery One-Name Study http://Vicaryone-namestudy.blogspot.com http://one-name.org/name_profile/vicary -----Original Message----- From: GOONS [mailto:goons-bounces+ianvicary=outlook.com@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Andy Micklethwaite Sent: 28 April 2017 08:16 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] FMP Errors At 06:50 28/04/2017, David wrote: >...I agree the Marriage certs for England and Ireland leave a lot to be desired ... Not just on the information given, but also its accuracy. It's worth reading (I'd borrow it from the library rather than buy it as it get repetitive after a while) Michael Foster's book on the subject "A Comedy of Errors". http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/ipage.html HTH Andy. _____________________________________________ Information and admin page: http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message