Jack Earnshaw wrote
Incidentally, is the GRO interested in being told about errors in the
index?
If it is an error in the Index, I don't know! If it is an error in the
transcription of the Index then FreeBMD are happy to be informed and
will correct it on confirmation, Ancestry may or may not bother and I
don't know about FMP.
This is another interesting point about sourcing though. In the "good
old days" you went to Myddleton Street" (or its predecessors) and wrote
down what you found in the big index books. That is now impossible and
you have to search on FreeBMD, Ancestry, FindMyPast etc. (Or use the
microfiche copies held at various record offices or at Kew). All have
electronic images copied from the GRO index books. So what is the
source? GRO, FreeBMD, Ancestry, FindMyPast?
I have separate Master Sources for "GRO Index - FreeBMD" and "GRO Index
- Ancestry." The new templates are set up for this and having entered
all the details relating to, for example, FreeBMD there is then a field
named Credit Line already filled in for you with the words "citing the
General Register Office's England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes."
I think if you have looked at the digital image of the Index on the site
you are using you may then tick the Verified box, but not, of course, if
you have looked at a transcription only.
--
Jenny M Benson
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