I have been playing around on ancestry.com and am having a weird time

Is there any reason why records that SHOULD be attached to one person because they actually pertain to that one person are attached to the person's spouse?

Example the person in question's parents' death records are not attached to said person, but to the spouse. Really fucking weird shit.

Is it always attached to the male?

That's the only thing I can think of....you know, male predominance, or some such!:eyes:

I will have to call you with the details. Suffice to say, it is pretty spooky (pun may or may not be intended in this case).

my parents die but their info is attached to my husband and not to me? like that you mean?

Just a guess based on my experiences. Always check the source of the records on a genie website. Historic records tend to be good, user-submitted records can be all over the map. The LDS site has the same issue. Older records submitted by Mormons were done before standards were established by the church and have a few other quirks like the idiosyncratic way the LDS church entered state abbreviations.

but linked to the improper person.

If the link is to an image of original material, two things comes to mind. Someone got confused when the data were originally recorded. Marriage records, for example, can have transpositions in the parental data. Death records can be wrong too that way because the deceased isn't providing the information. Or, as sometimes happened, the event was recorded long after it occured. Some early town BMDs were recorded after the fact and were done based on the town clerk or other official's recall or were based on the retelling by a family member -- both prone to error.

Although historic records are usually most accurate, weird stuff happens. I know of a case where a man was listed as father of his nephew on the latter's marriage record even though the man was only about 12 when the kid was born. There was no mother listed and the mystery for researchers on this line was to determine who the mother was. It took determined effort and a bit of dumb luck to figure out the likely truth. The nephew's mother had never married but the birth record indicates both her name and the father's name. His mother died when he was a young man and his uncle probably had stood up for him at the wedding. Since they had the same surname, the clerk may have assumed they were father and son.


on edit: modern records aren't immune from this sort of serious error but it did happen.

and is the person of record for all the information on the document?

I'm no help! ;)

The spouse in question (how to put this diplomatically) has no skills, nor do I think does this person have any real interest.

they are a tremendous resource, try them too :thumbsup:

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