Hi There
I'm just wondering ~
1. Does it matter ? I suppose it depends on how closely related they are !
Probably only to me, I tend to investigate all discrepancies, I like to be as sure as I can and document things properly. That means I look for a civil reg that corresponds to the certificate and I can't find one to match the year on the birth cert but I CAN find one (which may or may not have an accurate transcript on another site) that does match. Its odd. I don't actually care how old she was or wasn't when she married. She was my husband's grandmother and therefore in his direct line, if I can't get the direct line properly documented I am 'really' stuck!
2. Is the date the exact same, ie date and month ?
Yes, both the birth cert and the transcript have 21 Jan, which tallies with my aged Pa in laws knowledge of his mother's birthday.
3. I would trust rootsireland LESS than an actual cert that the lady in question had gotten herself.
I have ordered quite a few official certs over the last 15 years that were handwritten at the time of issue by a local registrar from the details in the register. Its rare, but at least two had mistranscriptions -which were then returned and corrected.
Rootsireland is great but I have come across a lot of errors on it.
I view all transcriptions as a finding aid and from the details try to get a copy of the original to be sure of them, hence my original question as to whether the register the GRO has is the original, or if that would still be held at the local registrars, as would have happened in England with a copy of the original register going to the GRO - I don't know how the system worked in Ireland
4. Do you want to give us the persons name to see what / when there are registers to correspond with it ?
Thanks for the offer, much appreciated as is your interest and input, but I'll wait and see what the photocopy entry says, then may come back if I am still stuck. Its puzzled me for a very long time now :-)
Boo