Since early this morning I have been transferring the Knottingley website onto a new server but in-between uploading sections of the site I have continued to add more burial records from Knottingley cemetery and have now completed as far back as 1971.

When I first decided to compile the database of burials I knew that I would be in for some hard work when it came to those records from the early part of the 1900s and back into the nineteenth century. What I hadn't foreseen was how difficult it would be to make sense of some of the more recent records. Using a combination of on-screen enlargements and a hand held magnifier upon printed copies I am confident that the majority of the records completed to date are accurate but I am astonished that many recent register entries are barely legible.

Between 1971 and 1978 the registers accommodated just 8 entries per page and there is ample space within which to enter the burial details but blow me if the person responsible hasn't gone and written as small as possible making it extremely difficult to make sense of many of the entries. The writing is so small that the individual characters are not even formed. What's more amazing is the number of instances where even the most simple guidelines haven't been followed and details have been entered into the wrong boxes making it appear that certain very unfortunate people were buried alive! - dying a few days later I might add. For a register that was updated on average with no more than a couple of lines per week I'm simply flabbergasted that so little care and attention was given to it and that the task of numerically incrementing the register entry number by a single digit couldn't always be followed correctly.

There are bound to be some errors in the database I have compiled from the register entries for which I apologise to those concerned and so I would ask that you inform me of any that you might find so that I can correct them as quickly as possible.