Birth Record Accuracy

[jaybelnz]

1.It might be worthwhile to know that in Scottish familes, if a child died ( say a boy in this case) the next boy born was given the same names, and the same went for girls.

2. If you are unable to read a Scotland's people easily, there is provision for you to contact them and they will send you a better scan.

[Johnf04]

Records can be inaccurate for other reasons - one person in my tree had her birth registered on 27th November 1857, by her grandfather, as 14th November 1857. Her baptism, though, was on 8th November 1857, and the birth date on the baptism was 14th October 1857.

[Forfarian]

Records can be inaccurate for other reasons - one person in my tree had her birth registered on 27th November 1857, by her grandfather, as 14th November 1857. Her baptism, though, was on 8th November 1857, and the birth date on the baptism was 14th October 1857.

He might have adjusted the facts slightly because I think births had to be registered within 21 days and he would have been fined for waiting almost six weeks.