Yes, I know that's not a new tip however, there is one mistake that keeps popping up in the New York State Vital Records Indexes, (birth, marriage, and death), that are now available on Ancestry.com.
Quite a few of my relatives passed away in Rochester, New York. Even if it wasn't their usual place of residence, Rochester has the biggest hospitals in my area so for many of them Rochester was the final earthly stop on their pilgrimage to eternity. The problem is, the abbreviation for Rochester, "Rch", keeps being mistranslated by the transcribers at Ancestry as Richmond, NY. I don't know how the New York clerks abbreviated Richmond, but there you have it; and not once or twice, but many times.
I don't know if this is happening with other cities, but if you're looking for relatives in Rochester, maybe even in Richmond, be aware of these errors.
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