Ancestry discoveries

[Stitchwiz]

I know that my father's family have to have roots across the North sea as he and my brother have the contraction of the tendons in their hands which is associated with descendants of the Vikings, but I am more interested in the people themselves, and have scoured the census records for addresses, employment, family names and maiden names - and found a lot of misspellings and misreading of handwriting.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

I'm no longer surprised to find errors in records. My mother was always a stickler for details and yet, she made a major mistake. I applied for a long form birth certificate so that I could get a new passport. I was delighted to see my mother's handwriting - they sent a photocopy of the original birth registration, which she completed and also had my fathers signature. Imagine my shock when I saw that she had misspelled her maiden name! I'm sure she had no idea that she left out a letter - she would be mortified. She was intrigued with genealogy, she was aware of how difficult it is to trace people especially when the maiden name of a woman is lost. My parents thought this through. My sisters and I have only one name so that our maiden name could become our middle name, if we so chose.

If Mom were still here, I would have a lot of fun teasing her.

[dutchy kilted]

Anne- talk about "coming from nowhere:" My great-grandmother died giving birth to my grandfather, however, the date I have for his birth is ten days AFTER her date of death.

I am hoping the records got screwed up somewhere along the line or there is a really great story there.