Birth Certificate question (General)

by Alan Merryweather , Cirencester, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 13:09 (6667 days ago) @ Jacqueline Stanford-Melville

Mike Foster from NZ, a serious student of our BMD records came here some years ago and was granted exceptional permission to examine the records at Southport.

He publihsed a book 'A Comedy of Errors'. I can't recall his estimate of the total number of errors, perhaps it was a million, maybe more. His site is well worth a look at and I see he's now followed up with another book.

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/

One wonders, with errors of this magnitude how many may have been deprived of inheritances - or wrongfully gained them for example, to say nothing of disappointed family historians, or those misled by the woeful state of our records.
I imagine the cost of carrying out a proper revision is so great it will never be attempted.