Very true - and also on headstones. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Awbrey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [TNWASHIN] Memorial phamplets at Funeral Homes > 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 >