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From: "Rae Robertson" <>
Subject: RE: [MAESSEX] Death Certificates
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:00:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4103C488.E6F1F400@bellatlantic.net>


I have to agree with Bob on this one. I have my grandfathers death
certificate. He disappeared on Jan 30 1943. His body was found drowned on
Mar 24 1943. The death certificate lists his death date as March 24th. The
certificate also lists my grandmother as Margaret, her name was Mary
Magdalene. She always went by Maggie so her son just assumed her name was
Margaret. No death certificates are not always accurate.
Rae Robertson

-----Original Message-----
From: bob gillis [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:33 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Death Certificates


Frank Taylor wrote:
>
> If I am reading this massage right, then I have to disagree with with the
> original sender.
> Death Records are very accurate on birth dates, and parents. Last winter
I
> recived a death cert. from
> Essex County, that gave 100% to what the records here in Nova Scotia have.
> ie. birth date and parents names
> and their birth places. Also I recived a death cert. from Lynn this
summer
> again, it showed what the Nova Scotia records
> show.>

Frank, you are using two examples of the death records being correct and
in agreement with birth records to conclude that death records are
accurate. in a message that crossed yours gave
examples of where recent death records were in error.

> I like records, much more then I do bible records. My reason for
> saying this is simple. Bible records in most cases are
> writen in 25, 30, 50 years after the event.>

Yes bible records are often made long after the event and should be used
with caution. Sometimes bible records were written at the time of the
event.

> Birth, marriage, and death records are done at the time of the event.>

Yes, they are; but the birth and parent information on the death record
is done years after the event. We are saying that this information can
often be wrong even as the death info can be wrong.

> Just my views on this. In the 35+ years I been doing genealogy, I still
like
> Genealogical records. :)>

What do you mean by Genealogical Records? The Ancestral File for
example. Probably the most inaccurate information around.

bob gillis

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