Hi List! I just wanted to mention that you might want to be careful with birth & death index corrections. Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. Correcting it might lead to not being able to find the record in the Archives if you send in for records with the name spelled the way you know it to be, as they will be searching for what you send. Since the actual record has the name spelled a different way, it would not be found during your search request. peggy rooney

List, I agree with Peggy. The NOVA-created, online indexes are a transcription of the indexes created, I believe, by the WPA in the 1930s. These indexes were the best reading at that time of what the record actually says. These indexes are historical in their own right and should be preserved as they are. It is standard practice to not change historical indexes. In addition to the rationale presented by Peggy, it should be remembered that there is not necessarily a "correct" way to spell a name. One relative may suggest one spelling and another a different spelling. Corrections can be made to be sure that the Orleans Online Archives index agrees with the original index. My name Hellmers occurs in the Orleans birth indexes as Halmens, Halmer, Helmer, Helmers, Herlms, Hillmers, and my favorite, Elmos. This is the way they should stay. These indexes should serve as the "official" indexes. If the Orleans Online Archives index agrees with the original, it should not be altered. Norm --- peggy <rooneytoon29@earthlink.net> wrote: . . . > I just wanted to mention that you might want to be > careful with birth & death index corrections. > Often, the name was mis-spelled on the actual > record, as I found out with several of my ancestors. . . . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ