Use GRO certificates

[MrsLizzy]

My neighbour always puts 'Jedi Knight' down on the Census and Council Tax Returns - being a member of a religious sect gets him a discount 

I suppose the Church of England doesn't count as a sect.      Too respectable, I s'pose!

[Necromancer]

I think one has to be a 'representative' of the sect ..... 

[kerryb]

I guess it's like every bit of evidence found in building a family history.  It has to be taken with a pinch of salt until proved correct!

Kerry

[Gragareth]

As you all are saying,  can't trust entirely the written word.  I have had a Register Office unable to decide what a surname is in their records.  Then re-issueing a certificate, with another interpretation of it.  Still wrong.  I proved so in another way.   I still believe much research being done solely upon censuses.
Gragareth.

[Lydart]

My neighbour always puts 'Jedi Knight' down on the Census and Council Tax Returns - being a member of a religious sect gets him a discount 

I suppose the Church of England doesn't count as a sect.      Too respectable, I s'pose!

I can't believe this ... surely not ?

I think one has to be a 'representative' of the sect .....

Can I, as a minister in the Church in Wales, really be allowed to pay less council tax than others ?  Sky high as my council tax is, it doesn't seem very fair to try that one on ! 

[Tephra]

Can I, as a minister in the Church in Wales, really be allowed to pay less council tax than others ?  Sky high as my council tax is, it doesn't seem very fair to try that one on ! 

Why not Lydart, if everyone else is doing it and it works ..  ..  go for it!!


Barbara

[Lydart]

No, no can do !   I have one of those awful things which is the bane of my life, called a conscience.

(By the way, don't people in Brisbane ever sleep ?)

[MrsLizzy]

Lydart, did you play any little jokes on your congregation this morning?  Our priest did:  he told us that because the New Moon had come earlier than expected, it wasn't really Palm Sunday.  It was the fifth Sunday in Lent - again - and next year there would be two Palm Sundays to make up for it.  Someone piped up that it was an April Fool, but I believed him.  I thought the Church of England was nutty enough for anything!

[behindthefrogs]

I did all my early gathering of my family history before the days oh the Internet using GRO certificates.  Although not cheap it was much easier than rolling through unindexed flms looking for ancestors before the addresses had been determined from the certificates.   I learnt fairly early on that when I found mistakes it was often wise to try to explain why they occurred.

One of my ancestors had father John on her marriage certificate but father Charles on her birth certificate.  On the census she was living with father John.
Eventually I discovered that her mother had been married to Charles who died not long after my ancestors birth.  She then married his brother John which in those days was against the law.

What appeared to be mistake actually told the story of my ancestors birth and upbringing.

So as I say don't just reject what appear to be a mistake.

David