Dates before 1752 in Forest of Dean Parish RegistTranscripts (General)

by gill webb , Wednesday, December 02, 2009, 14:43 (5545 days ago) @ Ralph Cook

There are always pitfalls if trying to be exact with transcriptions, this is why I agree with the way the FOD has decided to show it with 1660/1 in notes section. It gives a better idea of which order the children were bapt, or even marriage.

1. BT's for example were created from the parish register sometimes run from Mar 25 through to visitation of Bishop so will sometimes include April & May of following year. Recording these as year stated can cause children to be buried before born so misleading inexperienced researchers thinking there are 2 children for this couple. The IGI created by LDS is mainly comprised from BT's and have stated year as read, how many times have people complained about incorrect data they have found, because parish register would state different year.

Gill Webb