In response to Kathi Elliott's message, Annie Lloyd <Cardi2@aol.com> wrote: When the information for the IGI was extracted it was not extracted from the Parish Registers of Wales. It was extracted from the BT. You need to have someone look at the Parish Registers. I would say that the Parish Register is more accurate than the BT. The primary evidence should be the death certificate. However, the death certificate is only as good as the informant. ====================== Dear Listers, I concur with Annie Lloyd about the IGI, but unless I have misunderstood Kathi's original e-mail, she has already verified the information in the IGI by examining the relevant parish records (or possibly the bishops transcripts). I quote from her original message: ------quote begins----- I have verified the information I found about the family of Thomas D. Davies from the IGI. The parish records I found listed the birth dates and christening dates of four children to this family. -------quote ends------- I agree with Annie that the information in the parish register is more likely to be accurate than that in the bishop's transcript. I disagree that "the primary evidence should be the death certificate". A death certificate is only primary evidence for the details of the death. It is *not* primary evidence for the age of the deceased or his/her date of birth. Indeed, as Annie says, the accuracy of the information on a death certificate [about the age of the deceased] is only as good as the quality of the information supplied by the informant. It could be wildly inaccurate. I still maintain that Kathi should give highest credence to the information about the birth and baptism dates recorded in the parish register (or bishop's transcript) as long as it was acquired from a facsimile rather than a later transcript. Kind regards, John ---------------------------- John Ball, Ystalyfera, South Wales, UK E-mail: wfha@clara.co.uk Homepage: http://home.clara.net/wfha/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004