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By John, on August 9th, 2007% The Register of Corrected Entries (RCE) for Scotland are now available online from Scotland’s People. The RCE is for amending or updating entries in the statutory register as these entries are not allowed to be updated once written. For each entry in the statutory register that has later been corrected, there will appear in the margin a comment along the lines of “See RCE Volume X, Page Y” with a date. I’ve got six certificates that have such a designation: one birth; five deaths.
The birth certificate is Helen Tranor‘s, my great grandmother. It did state that . . . → Read More: Register of Corrected Entries (Scotland)
By Roz, on April 16th, 2007% My maternal grandfather recently produced some documents to help clarify and confirm some information about the Bird side of the family. We had no idea that he had these documents, but he produced birth certificates for his father (Ernest Alfred Bird), his step-grandmother (Lina Matheson); marriage certificates for his father Ernest to Elsie Lena Moore, and of his grandfather’s second marriage to Lina, as well as a Baptism certificate (never seen one of those before!) for Lina, and Alfred’s death certificate.
Bearing in mind my own mother didn’t know that her great grandfather had married twice (his first wife, Emma . . . → Read More: More Bird information
By Roz, on December 13th, 2006% As a History graduate (only a Desmond though: I have no pretensions to rival Starkey) I was taught to differentiate between types or classes of evidence and quality thereof. When dealing with conflicting stories or facts it is helpful to understand the order of reliance or amount of trust you can or should place upon each item.
Primary evidence is, to me, irrefutable proof of an event, its nature, and hopefully timing. Although modern digital cameras and wizardry with graphics can produce “fake” reality by messing with pixels, in general it can be replied upon that “the camera never lies”. . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #2: A Census is not Primary evidence.
By John, on December 12th, 2006% People in those olden days didn’t often know how to read or write. At least, in my family most birth certificates were given the ‘X’ factor by the proud father. This made it tricky when the registrar (or census-taker) had to take your details down. With a bit of luck they would have heard your name before and knew how it was spelt. However, if you happened to be Irish and freshly escaped from the potato famine to Scotland or England, they may have deliberately misspelled your name knowing you couldn’t tell.
This probably accounts for the number of variations . . . → Read More: Sound it Like Devin
By Roz, on November 30th, 2006% I’m aware that posting has fallen away recently – this is due to being away for about a week and then various (living!) family commitments coming up. However, John and I are still both plugging away at the layers.
There comes a point where internet research alone is not enough to uncover the truth. I suspect that this is where many people give up. It’s around the point where the free BMDs run out – in England and Wales this means that anyone born before 1837 is hard to find parentage for unless they appear on the 1841 / 1851 . . . → Read More: General Update
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