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Mistakes.
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Heather | Report | 2 Sep 2008 19:11 |
How sad Annie. They lived hard lives. |
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Heather | Report | 2 Sep 2008 14:31 |
Blimey Annie, I bet she didnt know whether to laugh or cry. How did she get her cert without knowing the name on it though :) |
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Heather | Report | 2 Sep 2008 14:16 |
Yes, when you KNOW what it should be you can see it cant you but you can also see how the mistake can be made if you dont know it. |
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RobG | Report | 2 Sep 2008 14:06 |
Well Holland is in Lincolnshire, so why not Russia? LOL |
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Maxine | Report | 2 Sep 2008 12:58 |
thank you for telling how we may be able to amend some records. My g grandfather is who was Samuel Wilson is down as Damuel in 1901 and Tilson in 1890. |
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Heather | Report | 2 Sep 2008 10:25 |
The thing with ancestry place names - obviously we cant "change" the census image but ancestry have been promising for years now that we can add amendments, I do hope so. |
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mgnv | Report | 2 Sep 2008 09:45 |
I think place names are a much more messy can of worms. Consider Heather's example: "but my gran said her dad was from Yorkshire, the census says Norfolk". If it were just that, then no problem - it's Norfolk; the problems arise when the census says Harrowgate, Norfolk. I'ld like to be able to search for Harrogate, Yorkshire - but how much can we fix - the county, the respelling to Harrogate, both? It probably would be nicesr to transcribe it as written, and search on the fully corrected version. I might note that I have ancestors who came from a parish that crossed county lines (well, until 1892-ish it did). FreeCEN transcribes the census place into one county (which had 90% of the parish), and where the pob is the other (BAN) 10%. the entry reads: |
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Heather | Report | 1 Sep 2008 23:39 |
And I have politely told you how to add an amendment. I am not aware of your mothers year of birth, many children were often the only ones in the house who could write. And any document completed in "old writing" would have been the same sort of writing used/read by the original transcribers of the enumerators forms - i.e. the census images we can now view. I take it you have viewed the original census image and its incorrect on that. |
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Dumpling | Report | 1 Sep 2008 23:06 |
My mother would have not have filled out the census form for my fathers family especially since she was not even alive at the time. |
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Heather | Report | 1 Sep 2008 22:50 |
Then you can add an addendum to that effect. However, it may well be mum didnt complete the form. See my post above. go to the census, click on his name and then look at the page tools to the left of the information: |
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Dumpling | Report | 1 Sep 2008 22:48 |
I think the mistake was made when it was transcribed from the original. |
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Heather | Report | 1 Sep 2008 22:48 |
It is a rule written in stone for transcribers that they write what they see. Otherwise we could have so many incorrect "corrections" that the whole transcript could be useless. How many times have we heard "but my gran said her dad was from Yorkshire, the census says Norfolk" that sort of thing. Some rules have to be followed. |
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Dumpling | Report | 1 Sep 2008 22:30 |
Does anyone know how to prove that a mistake has been made when transcribing a record and how to put it right? |