You can also find incorrect information on Birth Certificates, and Death Certificates. When I sent for my son's birth certificate, I found it stated that his father was born in Jasper, Wyoming. I had told the clerk, and had stated Jasper, Oregon, but I guess someone decided that there wasn't a Jasper in Oregon and change it to Wyoming. When I got my greatgrandmother's death certificate who died in Oklahoma in 1938, it said her father's name was Jim Chenewith. Her father's name was actually Hardin T. Chenoweth. He had died before she was born, and she only remembered her stepfather who was James Bates. So there's where the Jim came from. That threw me off for several years, until I found probate records. So to cut to the chase -- always look at records as helpful information, but not always correct information. Kathy in Pleasant Hill, Oregon