Following on from the tale by OC here is mine
Chasing folks through the census (as you do) pops up the odd sibling you don't always pay attention to in great detail. As a stop gap you add them to a family group and base the date and pob from the census with the intention of finding refs and ordering certs later.
I have just been going through one surname in my tree and giving sources to events, i have quite a few certs for different parts of the family, all scanned etc but never put the dates of birth into FTM, i simply left the year recorded from the census returns, as a result i'm now going through and amending them as needed, adding birth refs etc, it's amazing how many are a year or two out and how lazy i was in the first place.
Moral of the story, record all your sources properly, follow up all your certs by adding the full details to your tree data and don't take the "easy" option, in the long run it just makes more work later on.
As a result i have found several names in my tree that don't have GRO refs but are in the UKbmd local index for Lancs.......now i'm wondering if there is a particular problem with Lancs refs in the GRO index? I knew i didn't have the gro refs BUT until i put all my sources in i never realised the Lancs events were so badly recorded at the GRO.
Chasing folks through the census (as you do) pops up the odd sibling you don't always pay attention to in great detail. As a stop gap you add them to a family group and base the date and pob from the census with the intention of finding refs and ordering certs later.
I have just been going through one surname in my tree and giving sources to events, i have quite a few certs for different parts of the family, all scanned etc but never put the dates of birth into FTM, i simply left the year recorded from the census returns, as a result i'm now going through and amending them as needed, adding birth refs etc, it's amazing how many are a year or two out and how lazy i was in the first place.
Moral of the story, record all your sources properly, follow up all your certs by adding the full details to your tree data and don't take the "easy" option, in the long run it just makes more work later on.
As a result i have found several names in my tree that don't have GRO refs but are in the UKbmd local index for Lancs.......now i'm wondering if there is a particular problem with Lancs refs in the GRO index? I knew i didn't have the gro refs BUT until i put all my sources in i never realised the Lancs events were so badly recorded at the GRO.
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