Mistakes in original sources - how to note?
I have found many mistakes in original sources lately and am curious if others have experienced the same thing. The latest find was yesterday when I found a birth record for a great uncle on Ancestry. The person who recorded the births for the town added no given names to the children born. They are all listed with their surnames only. The record has the birth date and the parents names for each child except in my great uncle's case the names of the parents are incorrect. The names given are Daniel and Sarah when his parents first names were Dan and Emma. I can understand the Daniel but Sarah? The town they lived in was tiny that the 1900 census is only 3 images. I recently took photos of records from a church record and one of the above named sisters has an aunt and uncle listed as her parents in that record. Other church records give the correct parents for both her and her brother mentioned above. I knew these people quite well. The great aunt lived over the ro...