In searching birth (baptismal) records we sometimes get a bonus in the margin notes which gives a date when the person died. I was recording a marriage of a Maria and needed to look for her birth to be sure I was attaching her to the correct family. It was easy because I had her marriage age and the parish she was baptized in. I found it in Jun 1851. When I went to enter the information in I noticed that I had already entered a Maria who was born in Jun of 1848 and had a margin note saying she died in 1927. I thought that strange for two reasons: the unmarried Maria had a death date and the married one did not and there were two Maria's in the family (not necessarily a deal breaker).
I decided to look at the obitos starting in Jun of 1848. Then I found the death of a Maria on 13 Jun 1851 from the family. The second Maria was born on 19 Jun 1851 just 6 days after the first Maria died. So apparently the death date of the second Maria was entered in the margin of the first Maria's baptismal record. I supposed the Priest was in a hurry to finish with the death entries for the second Maria in 1927 and did not have her correct age at the time so he entered in on what he thought was the correct record. Just another day in the life of a Genealogist. Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Epping, NH Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
