Genealogy Chat

Is it a transcription error when two people who married are under different reference numbers?

On one site they are on the same reference number but on the other one is on page number 925 and the other on 926, if I decided to send off for the marriage cert which reference number should I use.

Thanks

Can you put a note on your order form saying that there appear to be 2 different page numbers, and you want the cert for ....and name them?

Huia.

But also name the 2 different page numbers.

Huia.

I could probably or ring them.

I could also go to the records office where the cert is held but I don't like going to the one where it is they are not particularly helpful so I try to order them off the GRO.

I am wondering what sites you have looked at? If it is the official GRO site, then they need to know of the error. So should the others, but official sites are more important in my opinion.

Huia.

Ah. you answered my question while I was asking it!

Huia.

Have you checked the IMAGES? That may help with deciding which Page no is correct.

Did you find the records on freebmd?

If so, they have a facility whereby you can notify them of erroneous transcriptions

If you are unable to check the images..............why not ask for help in doing so

Flick,

I did find the record on freebmd and they are the ones that had them on the same page number FMP don't, can I ask FMP to alter it, I know you can ask for corrections on freebmd as I have before.

Not sure about FMP - I only have 1911 census with them.

But they have a very good facility for advising errors on the 1911, so I would imagine they also accept them on bmd's etc...........

Sorry I can't be more definite..........

If you plan to order the cert, I would suggest that you do so through the link from freebmd to the GRO

Click on "View Original Image" when the original image comes up on the screen at the top right hand side you can report transcription errors.

Staffslass, your avatar bothers me. Is that steeple really falling over? Which church is it. I know it is not Dilhorn All Saints.

Huia whose ancestors came from Dilhorn.

HuiaAllYear,

It is Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire and it is the angle that I took the picture from that makes it look like that.

At the bottom of the smaller looking "spire" is a stone carving of my grandads head, which is why I took it from this angle, it was put there in the 1950s as a thank you for all the restoration work he did on the Cathedral, one day I will actually go on the roof and see it as they sometimes do tours up there but they are doing more restoration on it at the moment.

Pam,

Have done as you said will now await their decision.

Thank you.

Yes, I thought it might be the angle at which the pic was shot, but it does look alarming.

Have you visited Dilhorn? The church has an octangular tower. I think there are only 5 in England with octangular towers.

Huia.

I am not sure if I have visited it and if I have it wasn't recently,

Lichfield is one of 3 three spired Cathedrals Truro and one in Edinburgh being the others I have been to Truro.

Staffslass

I think you'd better add Salisbury cathedral to your list. At 404ft, it has the tallest spire in England. As a child, I remember being told that the height was the same as the number of miles from London to Edinburgh!!

If you mean to visit Salisbury apparently I have but I don't remember because I was so young. Maybe I should go again, it looks very nice.