Put more trust in the original record..... that is the Parish Register, not a transcription of what was in the Parish Register (IGI) Borrow the film of the original entry in the IGI and check that. When things are transcribed, many errors are made. Sometimes the Parish Register is headed with years, say, 1800, and entries are listed below in various months without further reference to the year. As pages are turned, the year may or may not be repeated, and occasional pages are totally missing, so anyone transcribing it has a difficult time of understanding just what the date might be. Also, entries are often inserted, in roughly appropriate dates, written down the side of pages, or crammed in between lines. Some families have been written all on one page, perhaps when they have just moved towns, and the new parish has listed them all, with dates of all previous Baptisms. Years can be all over the place. And, not to mention the difficulties of the handwriting! Of course you don't see this when you look up the IGI. Even in a Parish register, I have seen an entry for a Baptism, only to find an entry in later pages in the form of an index, where the date differs. Some information was added by the Registrar well after the event, so dates/names can be wrong. You only need to compare births/baptisms of children in the Parish entries with records made in a family Bible, to find completely different dates in some cases. Some Parish Registers were even re-written, in beautiful handwriting, years later.....(probably to leave a good record behind for the Bishop) so beware. Solution for your family history: record the two dates, and add an explanation in the notes. Margaret On 31/12/07 6:31 PM, "Geoff Watson" <geoffwatsone@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Kingsley wrote > > I have noticed that the IGI information can be exactly 1 year different to the > (say) the English Parish Records: Yorkshire (West Riding) [this is a CD > purchased through Ancestry.com).For example:Mary Cardwell, IGI Batch: P009801 > has a Christening Date of 3 Feb 1740 (father John Cardwell).Whereas the > English Parish Records (Thornhill, West Yorkshire) has the following entry:03 > Feb 1739 Mary the dau: of John Cardwell JunrI believe the above to be the same > person.Neverthless, I am sure I have seen similar examples and I wondered > (besides the fact that I could have the wrong person) whether anyone else had > noticed this or had an explantion.Elaine replied > The Gregorian Calendar came into effect in 1752 in England and the New Year > Changed from March 24th (ish). The change each year took place on Lady Day. > If you check through any early Parish Records you will Note the change is > noted on Lady Day. > > My query > > Did this one year discrepancy continue towards the end of the century - I have > several such instances in the 1780'8 and 1790's, all in one parish (Haworth) > between January and March....... > > Thanks > > Geoff in Sevilla > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message