Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

crossing out mistakes on birth certificate?

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Lady on Lynchmere Common

Lady on Lynchmere Common Report 31 Jul 2004 08:36

Hi Margaret The number corresponds to the number of errors in the register so far. Each error has to be numbered and initialled. If the registrar makes an error in entry number 29 and it it is the first mistake in the register then that numbered error is number one and so on. The number shown doesn't correspond to another entry. They have to cross through the mistake and write the correct word. This correction and numbered error has to appear on the certificate which has to be a correct reproduction of the original. They also usually list all the errors in the front blank page of the register so they know what numbered error they are up too. If their concentration was interupted, by a crying baby say, then they could make several errors in the same entry!!! Phew. Hope this helps. ( and makes sense ) Deborah

Margaret

Margaret Report 30 Jul 2004 18:28

Thanks for your help, margaret and mike

Mike. The Leicester Lad.(GC)

Mike. The Leicester Lad.(GC) Report 30 Jul 2004 13:21

Greeting's Margaret. . . I'm lead to believe that if the registrar makes a mistake. Then he has to make out a fresh entry So the 13th. relates to see Entry No. 13. and he puts his initials on the end right side outside the main body of the certificate. If there is no mistakes then a oblique line going from left to right, again outside the main body of the certificate. But if I'm wrong then some one will put you right. MIKE.

Margaretfinch

Margaretfinch Report 30 Jul 2004 13:10

Hi Margaret I have a certificate with a mistake on it it was crossed out and the right name was put in and initialed by the registrar yours might be the same Margaret

Researching:
Finch Weathersfield Essex. Poole Haverhill Suffolk.GoodchildSouth Ascot BerkshireFry Wilton Wiltshire Goddard Laverstock Wiltshire Grayston Suffolk

Margaret

Margaret Report 30 Jul 2004 12:59

I have the birth cert of my great grandfather born 13 MARCH 1868. In the name column is written Sampson which is then crossed out. Above the crossed out name is written 'No.13' and then below it is written Samson. Over to the right of the cert is written 'Thirteen' and below initials T.J.P (the registrar is Thomas James Proudlove" Has anyone else had this experience please?