I have just had to eat humble pie.
I was playing on the Cheshire BMD site, having spotted that my cousin's marriage record must be there now. I summoned up the marriage record, and there it was - but her husband's middle name didn't match the name I had noted. I had a quick check, and my record appeared to have come from her father's research, so had to be OK.
No.
I reported the supposed error to the webmaster, who forwarded it to Cheshire BMD. They checked and came back very promptly to say that the name did look like what they had given on the site. So I emailed my cousin, who emailed back to say that the name on the site was correct.
The name I had recorded was similar, but not correct. With hindsight, I suspect it's one of those things where you type what you're thinking about, because the wrong name is spelled the same way as a place with links to our family. I had got the wrong name from print-out my uncle sent to my mother for her to fill in the info about our part of the family. I have separate copy, which I think also came from him, which has the correct name - but I hadn't looked at that because I already "knew" what the name was.
Oh dear!
Christine
I was playing on the Cheshire BMD site, having spotted that my cousin's marriage record must be there now. I summoned up the marriage record, and there it was - but her husband's middle name didn't match the name I had noted. I had a quick check, and my record appeared to have come from her father's research, so had to be OK.
No.
I reported the supposed error to the webmaster, who forwarded it to Cheshire BMD. They checked and came back very promptly to say that the name did look like what they had given on the site. So I emailed my cousin, who emailed back to say that the name on the site was correct.
The name I had recorded was similar, but not correct. With hindsight, I suspect it's one of those things where you type what you're thinking about, because the wrong name is spelled the same way as a place with links to our family. I had got the wrong name from print-out my uncle sent to my mother for her to fill in the info about our part of the family. I have separate copy, which I think also came from him, which has the correct name - but I hadn't looked at that because I already "knew" what the name was.
Oh dear!
Christine
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