Error in transcribing death record?
I am searching Rachel Peterson, born May 1875 in Norway, died Dec 5th, 1906 in Duluth.
I find one Rachel Peterson, born 1975, died Dec 5th 2006 in Duluth. It is very strange that a person with the same name dies on the same date one hundred years later?
Can there be an error in the transcription? Should the year in this transcription be 1875 and 1906, and not 1975 and 2006?
Is it possible for someone to find the death certificate and check?
Here is the document information:
Digital Folder Number: 004223166
Microfilm Number: 2117563
Image Number: 01525
Indexing Batch: I09750-9
Best regards,
Anne C. Eriksen, Oslo, Norway
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I searched the record 004223166, image 01525 and found Rachel Peterson. If I understand your question correctly, the record does day death date was December 5, 1906. The record is "Death records 1906 Ramsey County, St. Paul City M-Z thru St. Louis County, Duluth City." I am not sure where the information of 2006 came from, but I don't find it in this record.
When I tried to load the link you gave, I got a "Well this is unexpected..." message, so I am not sure what you are referring to. Was it an indexed record? Do you find Rachel Peterson in familysearch.org and if so what is her ID so that we can look at the sources.
Thank you for your question.
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@CraigWArmstrong, for mere mortals like Anne and me, that film is locked, and the access message doesn't even offer an FHC or affiliate library: "You may be able to view this image by visiting one of our partners' sites or the legal record custodian (fees may apply)."
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Thank you for looking it up, Craig. The answer was (as I thought) that it was a transcription error. I cannot follow the URL, so probably somebody has corrected the error (I also get the errormessage as you got).
As Julia Szent-Györgyi wrote, there is no option to access the record by visiting a partner-site. I would very much like to contact the site where I can get a copy of the original document.
Do you know the URL or the name of the partner site?
Anne
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@Anne C Eriksen, given that Craig apparently accessed the image on FS without even realizing that it had any restrictions for other people, I suggest you try the Family History Library's Lookup Service.
(FS's lack of openness about access hits both ways: people with LDS accounts think all is well with the world and can't understand what those of us with public accounts are going on about.)
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The catalog entry is quite transparent - though no digital partner is listed - the main author is:
Authors:
Minnesota. Department of Health. Section of Vital Statistics (Main Author)
You can certainly go to their website and request a death certificate:
That there is no message with such a reference will hopefully be resolved when the new catalog is perfected...
@Julia Szent-Györgyi YHNI ... FYI: members of Church of Jesus Christ - ...All is well ...!?
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Oh ... And on the index you need to select the collection link to view that the collection is from Minnesota State Department of Health ... The citation refers to the collection not the originator.
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