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IGI - Birth Dates
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wisechild | Report | 27 Mar 2010 07:07 |
Most likely the people extracting the info from the original records made a note of the actual birth date which had been noted by the vicar. |
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Mick in the Sticks | Report | 27 Mar 2010 07:02 |
Extracted records usually show the date of baptism, not the date of birth which could be years later than the actual birth date. Prior to 1837, birth dates were rarely recorded. I have one ancestor in my tree who was baptised 13 years after he was born. Fortunately the vicar made a comment about his birth year in the register. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 27 Mar 2010 05:55 |
Submitted record could be very accurate but you have no way of knowing, unless you can make an independent check to the original records. The most inaccurate are likely to be birth dates attached to a marriage records. These can often be nothing better than an assumption of 21 years prior to the marriage date. |
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mgnv | Report | 27 Mar 2010 04:30 |
Look at an IGI record - if it says submitted, someone has sent it in, and there's often no way of finding whence it came; if it's extracted, then there's usually a source # at the foot of the page - click on that and it'll say where the record was extracted from. There aren't any from the GRO, but most Scottish ones in 1855-75 are from GROS. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Mar 2010 04:12 |
Andrea |
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Researching: |
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Andrea | Report | 27 Mar 2010 00:45 |
Does anybody know where the Birth dates come from on the IGI - I presume they are not from the General Registrar |