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From: "Kathie Orr" <>
Subject: RE: [ONT] Now what do I do?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:38:08 -0400
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Fran

Following one of the first rules of genealogy always go with the record that
is recorded nearest in time to when the event took place. Therefore you
would go with the father's registration.

The later registration was being done from memory and misplacing a year here
or there is no big thing.

As to your comment as to why the double registration was not caught by
Registrars - you are dealing with humans they make mistakes - indexes are
not perfect - humans make them, maybe original was missed in the original
hand written index.

Also if your great grandfather went to get a copy of his birth certificate
and said his name was Harold Balcombe and he was born on such and such a day
then that's what the officials would check for. The indexes was only done by
the child's name so even if they did check a few years on either side they
might not find Sidney Harold Balcombe if in the index they indexed Sidney
Balcombe . I have a fair number of double registrations in my family with
the only difference being either the first name or the date of birth.

The great thing about most genealogy programs is you can note conflicting
information like this.

Regards
Kathie Orr

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-----Original Message-----
From: Francoise Seguin [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:02 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [ONT] Now what do I do?

Cathy, Thanks for answering my question,
But I have asked my cousin and he has said that there was only one birth and

that it was probably that one was registered with the Dominion of Canada
#901200 but registered on the 12th of February 1926 by Sarah Annie Balcombe
the Mother. and the other was registered by the father Frank Georges
Balcombe on Nov 30 1894 Reg. # 005038. Both have the same
Dr.R.P. Robinson and everything is the same except the sequence of the names

and the date's. So any Idea's? Thanks for trying, Have a Good Day, Fran
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ONT] Now what do I do?


> In a message dated 5/24/2006 12:04:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
>> To whom ever can help,
>> I have found two birth certificates for my ggGrandfather exactly one year
>> apart
>> one January 15 1893 and the other January 15 1894. Both registered with
>> the
>> city of Ottawa Carleton County Ontario. The only difference is that the
>> names have been set in different order one is Sidney Harold Georges
>> Balcombe and
>> the other is Harold Sidney Georges Balcombe. the question is which one is
>> the right one? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Fran
>>
>
> Well, my first reaction would be to go with the earlier one, because a
> birth
> could not be registered in advance, like a baptism couldn't precede a
> birth.
> BTW, was there a baptism?
>
> However, it might also be two births, the first child having died, and the
> family reusing the name.
>
> Cathy (Knight)
>
>
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