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Errors in IFHF Records

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  • 14-11-2014 2:22pm
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    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    I have found numerous errors, some minor and some of them no doubt errors by the priest. Do you make a note of the mistakes and notify IFHF?

    I have a record of one of my ancestors which is rather odd.

    According to their Church Baptism Record
    Bridget was baptised on 2 Feb 1888
    According to their Civil Record
    Bridget was born on 2 May 1888 & baptised on 21 July 1888

    A Civil death record has Jane dying in 1899 while the Will index states 1897 and the BMD index has 1897 as well.


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    Coolnabacky1873
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Coolnabacky1873


    I can only image the amount of errors that are in the IFHF records. From their website:

    In the early years of the indexing of local records the data was recorded manually on index cards and sorted by surname, first name and so on. Circa 1991 and 1992 many centres began to computerize their card indexes and directly input new records on to a specially designed database.

    That means some (and probably most) were transcribed TWICE!

    Also, don't forget that most of the initial transcription was done by people on employment schemes in the 1980s. Just think about that, young folk with no interest or care in genealogy/history having to transcribe old parish registers, day after day, trying to decipher the handwriting.

    If at all possible, verify what you get on IFHF with the original record.


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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    montgo wrote: »
    ..According to their Civil Record
    Bridget was born on 2 May 1888 & baptised on 21 July 1888..

    the 2nd date on a civil record should be date of registration rather than baptism, so more a category/labelling error.


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    shanew
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    a possibility I forgot to mention ... the dates of baptism and reported for the birth might also be correct. Dates of births were apparently fudged sometimes to fit with the required registration time limit - which I think might have been 90 days...


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    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    Many thanks for replies.

    Shane, I hadn't considered the fudging of the date of birth!

    Wonder why IFHF didn't change the wording to date of registration? I didn't bother much with the civil birth records preferring to get the names of the sponsors on the the baptism record so hadn't noticed this problem.


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