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Dont be hard on Transcribers.
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BrianW | Report | 6 May 2010 14:18 |
One of the problems with censuses is that the transcribing was contracted out by e.g. Ancestry to a foreign country ( I believe the 1911 was done in the Phillipines) so the transcribers had little or no knowledge of English geography. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 6 May 2010 11:30 |
They always say hindsight is a wonderful thing. |
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Kate | Report | 6 May 2010 11:22 |
I don't envy you looking for Molyneuxs, Alan - I've got some in West Lancs and that area, and I've seen all sorts of versions, "Molinee", "Mullineux", "Mollinay". In fact, just on the Lancs OPC site, if you look at Ormskirk there's probably fifteen variations. |
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Alan | Report | 6 May 2010 08:59 |
As ever, I'm always impressed with members input.........thank you. |
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Joy | Report | 5 May 2010 21:29 |
My OH transcribes for parishes with which he is familiar; therefore, he is able to put the literal transcription plus what he thinks it should be :-) |
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Ivy | Report | 5 May 2010 21:20 |
Victorian l and t - it often helps to point out all the other occasions on the same page that the originator wrote the letter t without crossing it - and to point out that those following that system would be careful not to loop the letter t, whilst making clear loops for the letter l |
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Berniethatwas | Report | 5 May 2010 21:09 |
Oh don't I know! I still haven't decided whether his signature is Snell or Sowell - sometimes it looks like one, other time 'tother. |
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Jan.jan | Report | 5 May 2010 20:21 |
I've just become an Online Parish Clerk for Dorset and travel from Hampshire to Dorchester as often as work permits to transcribe records. |
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Joy | Report | 5 May 2010 20:16 |
Absolutely :-) |
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Chrissie2394 | Report | 5 May 2010 19:27 |
I totally agree. |
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Alan | Report | 5 May 2010 18:40 |
I used to curse them until I joined them. They are all volunteers like the great helpers on this Site. Their task is to interpret handwriting from over 200 years ago to present day. Handwriting then differs as it does today. |