From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 18/11/2019 12:47, Ian Goddard wrote:   
   >   
   > What appears on certificates, census returns and any other documentation   
   > we rely on is largely what the clerk think the respondent said or, even   
   > worse, what they think they remember thinking what the respondent said.   
   > The exceptions are the cases where the record was being made by someone   
   > who knew the family.  Even then concealment may have mislead them. Let's   
   > be grateful that most of the time what was recorded seems to have been   
   > what happened.   
      
   One of my Great Great Grandparents were married in Quebec, the record is   
   written in French and probably by a typically b####y-minded Frog clerk   
   so the names have some very strange spellings!   
      
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