My Trails into the Past

When I searched “mistake” in my RootsMagic database, I find several instances where I commented on likely mistakes in a record. Some of the mistakes seem to be on the part of the parish priest when he entered a sacramental event in a register. My grandmother, Anna Sullivan, was born 15 October 1892 in Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana, the youngest child of John H Sullivan and Anna Maria Gleeson. I have several documents that support her birth and parents: Anna Maria Sullivan was baptized by Father DeSiere on 19 October 1892 at St. Paul’s Church in Anaconda. Her birth was listed as 14 October 1892. Her parents as Joannes Sullivan and Anna Gleason. Michael Sullivan and Anna Dorian were the sponsors. [1] In 1953, she received a certificate of baptism from the pastor of St. Paul’s Church, Father Joseph F. Schulte, which was a filled-out form. It stated Anna Marie Sullivan, father John Sullivan and mother Anna Gleeson, born in Anaconda on 15 October 1892 and was baptized on 19 Oct...