BVRI

I am told that a particular marriage's details are given on the BVRI
CD's. The LDS
film from which the data are said to have come is also given.

As there is no batch of extracted data from the given LDS film, what
reliance can one put on the BVRI data?

Hugh Watkins...

none

you must always check original sources

Steven Gibbs...

How much BVRI data have you found that's wrong, Hugh? I've found very
little, if any.

There is occasionally some lack of clarity. For example, the baptisms
for Portland, Dorset is an amalgamation of three different churches,
which isn't explained anywhere. Otherwise, barring the odd
transcription error, I'd say the BVRI data was very reliable.

Hugh Watkins...

none I don't rely on it
and what I have used I have not checked
becaue Wales is very much under represented as we know

if you don't look at original sources you miss out on accidental discoveries

myths...

The difficulty is knowing where are the accidental discoveries.

In Westminster Archives last week (first time in 3 years, I think), I
relieved the boredom of working through a parish register looking for
a couple of baptisms I knew wouldn't be there by checking the marriage
entry of my ggggg-aunt to her second husband (a cousin of hers)
because about 3 years ago I had vaguely wondered if it was also *his*
second marriage, although by now I don't care either way.

The witnesses were his brother-in-law, and the husband of one of the
groom (and bride)'s second cousins - both of whom are my direct
ancestors because of the marriage of their children more than ten
years later. I now have a copy of their signatures.

An example of the occasional benefit of checking out those not in the
direct line.

Hugh W

Steven Gibbs
Bedford

except when you are doing what I call "quick and nasty genealogy"
eg knocking up a tree in a few hours from the net for fun

Hugh W

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