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From: Ian Westergaard <>
Subject: Re: [nz] Family trees online
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:35:15 +1200
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:07:17 +1000, Shona Young <> wrote:
> Hi Allan, and list,
> And when presented with the correct information along with documents etc,
> refuse to change their details online...very frustrating.
> Cheers,
> Shona

It is not only amateur genealogists who refuse to correct their errors.

The online version of the Dictionary of NZ Biography gives my three times
great grandparents marriage as being in England late 1840 or early 1841.
They even got her name wrong.

In fact they were married in Sydney, NSW, on 13 February 1843 - I have the
certificate.

I have twice told the Te Ara people and provided the documentary evidence
but they have done nothing.

Of course the difference in dates means the first child was born before
they were married and nice people didn't do that in those days. Or did
they?

Ian Westergaard

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