An interesting sideline - this afternoon I was transcribing marriages for the post 1837 Lincs marriage index and found in the register two letters from the registrar pointing out errors that the vicar or whoever made out the entries had made in the duplicate book he had sent to the registrar! In one marriage entry he had apparently given the father of the bride the groom's surname instead of her surname! The register I was looking at was correct - the bride's father had the right surname. So perhaps the registers that went to the registrar were not as accurate as they could have been. I've come across many entries that were corrected in the register that remained at the church years after the duplicate book would have been sent away. I wonder how many of these corrections found their way into the indexes we use? Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html http://duncalfonenamestudy.tribalpages.com/ Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: GOONS [mailto:goons-bounces+duncalf=one-name.org@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of christopher.gray@gray-ons.org Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 7:50 AM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Do you trust UK GRO records? The recent partial digitisation of the GRO records has made a significant difference - especially since they went back to the originals. But - as you say - it still used the transcription from the original, and the transcription from that transcription, that is the source of many errors. With GRAY being a prominent name in the Gypsy community, I would expect to have significant trouble identifying from many indexes - government or not. I would need to rely on family history and actual certificates - assuming that events were registered. Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: GOONS [mailto:goons-bounces+christopher.gray=gray-ons.org@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marie Byatt Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 9:49 PM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Do you trust UK GRO records? I put my level of trust of the GRO records probably on the same level as the one tree on family search or Ancestry trees - in short only if I have confirming evidence. This may be due to the fact the that the first several certificates I got (back around 2002/3) all had large errors - didn't seem worth wasting the money. So I treat it as I treat any transcribed index - half trust. I check back occasionally to see if they have gotten some of the ones I have but they missed and a few have made it, but on the whole it's definitely been a 50-50 proposition for me. When I get the true records ( especially on marriages) I make note of where the index is mistaken and go with the actual record information. My Peplxxs didn't seem to like bureaucrats too well and didn't mind flaunting the law. I have many that didn't get registered until 2 or more quarters after the event. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net _____________________________________________ 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