Not to mention the difficulties with reading old
handwriting. I downloaded what appeared to be two
*different* extractions of the same parish birth records
from Sweden from the IGI, with the idea of combining them
into an auxiliary database to use as a research aid. (This
had worked reasonably well for me in another parish). In
this case, there were so many discrepancies that I just
couldn't come up with a combined list. A child with the
same first name as another born on the same date, same
mother's name, but a *different* father's name, for example
(father's *first* name is what matters in Sweden). Just a
general mess.
I don't know who did the reading, and I do know that the
handwriting in this time frame in this period is pretty bad,
but I thought the policy was to have 2 people read the
records, and if they disagreed to then have a third person
check it. Seems not to have helped in this case.
Ruth Ann
Lynne Darrouzet wrote:
>
> I agree that extractions are generally more accurate than patron submitted
> information, but mistakes occur with extractions too.
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