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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] looking for whitefriars in chester
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:48:02 +0000
In-Reply-To: <62.2b9b1dc2.2b599ddd@aol.com>



>my aunt tried to get one and something must of happend coz she only got the
>short one
There is no way she could have been refused a proper certificate if that
is what she asked for. Possibly she was offered (and took) 'the cheaper
one', which is the short certificate, useless for FH purposes.
> but the lady at the records office said something strange to her,
>she said "dont go digging" my aunt never thought much of it untill i started
>reaserching.
>
>why did she say that? do they hold more info than birth records?
Some people are just silly - I am shocked that a record office person
(or maybe a registrar's clerk) should say this. Possibly a prudish type
who thinks 'irregularities' a]re shameful instead of just interesting.
It could be that she noticed the child was illegitimate, and decided
for your aunt that this was something she did not want to know (if she
was very young it may have been nannying)
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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