In a message dated 9/25/2005 9:29:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jrmmgm123@juno.com writes: > The obit was done correctly. Who ever > gave the info at her death ( I believe it was my great Aunt Ernestine) > gave my Aunt Rose's name and birthdate instead. Was I ever shocked. > > Sometimes the records are not what they should be and now after 50 years > there is no way to correct it. > > Jim Morgan > Salt Lake City > You are absolutely correct; my aunt's birth certificate was incorrect; my aunt's daughters didn't even know that there were 3 sisters; thought there were only two and confused all of the information when they gave the information on death certificates etc. These persons would be 100 and 110 if they were still alive.... and I am certain that it happened in years before that in the 20th century and even before that. My brother-in-law has an incorrect Army pension file as there were two of the same name both from the same area in Illinois and it was never straightened out. My mom was born in Mendon MA and the sisters in Georgiaville RI so that created another kind of record difficulty. My grandfather has two different birth certificates with two sets of (different) parents..... In the microfilm archives there are certificates/ indexes of "No Name" child with surname on the microfilmed archive and we just happen to know who it was that was born that day as there are still living relatives. So no matter how much we strive for "facts" even the facts get muddled in the records. Of course there are some who would disagree with me and say that the "primary " source is always correct but the primary source often came from an oral report of a relative or (next of kin) in the earlier records. Sorry if this offends anyone... jes