Annette Bowen wrote 2012-11-11 23:05: > > I found the family with the step-father living at Skrivaregården in > the HFL for Vartofta-Åsaka AI:3 (1799-1812) Image 93/page 177. As I > go blind from staring at the screen too long, I am beginning to be > able to match the handwritten place names with the typed names in the > indexes. --- OK. > > Every place except the birth record gives Maria's birth date as > September 15th 1793. On the birth record it says the 17th. Which > would you think is correct? She was christened on the 19th. --- Who knows? Probably a greater chance that the birth record is correct, but we don't know how that was recorded. Where the births entered one by one as they occurred, or perhaps only once a year, copied from some temporary records on lose pieces of paper? // Bo Johansson
Thank you so much, Bo. You have given me a lot of information. I guess I will pick a date of birth for Maria to use in my software and add a note about the discrepancy in the records. Annette On 11/12/12, Bo Johansson <bo.h.johan56@telia.com> wrote: > Annette Bowen wrote 2012-11-11 23:05: > > >> I found the family with the step-father living at Skrivaregården in >> the HFL for Vartofta-Åsaka AI:3 (1799-1812) Image 93/page 177. As I >> go blind from staring at the screen too long, I am beginning to be >> able to match the handwritten place names with the typed names in the >> indexes. > > --- OK. > >> >> Every place except the birth record gives Maria's birth date as >> September 15th 1793. On the birth record it says the 17th. Which >> would you think is correct? She was christened on the 19th. > > --- Who knows? > > Probably a greater chance that the birth record is correct, but we don't > know how that was recorded. Where the births entered one by one as they > occurred, or perhaps only once a year, copied from some temporary > records on lose pieces of paper? > > // Bo Johansson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SWEDEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >