Genealogy Chat

Lynn I think you are quite lucky at least it was near. Been looking on 1891 for 2 days now for Bowyer, one has been mistranscribed as Carter, I could understand it if the one above was that name but it was Gates, and the other was King the family name from the top of the page!!! Now got to do a rethink on the rest of my brick walls! Kim

howsthis for a laugh my lot havebeen totally mucked up in the 1851 cencustheygot my anncesters down as lezze instead of legge so i give up from lyndy

You can sometimes get round it by going into an image you don't want and then using the links at the top of that page to get to what you do want - assuming the page you want has been put into the correct alpha section! Christine

Lunar the same thing happened with me. Looking for a Smith and was given a page starting with Mc and finishing with X. as with you it was an addition. The name before the X was also a Mc! So unable to find that one. Is there any point in mailing them about this?

I suspect they used OCR software to do the indexes to the typed pages, and that could explain some of the 'mistranscriptions', though they would have had to use real people to do the handwritten ones. Kate.

Just realised why there might be pages apparently (but prob not actually) missing. Have just reported Thomas F C'connor - Ronald A Ogborne for faulty index - on a page headed O'CO-OGB. It is in the section for names beginning with C Christine

I lost count of how many ''Faulty index'' submissions I made (using the ''wrong image'' reporting option). I found out this morning when I looked at my e-mail: 15 - fifteen! (And I didn't bother checking all of the ones I saw as likely errors.) Actually there were two or three Missing-image reports amongst that lot. What is as daft as using the out-of-sequence names as the End-value is ignoring the page-headers which tell you the first three letters of the first and last names. Really basic. Christine

Well done for finding yourselves! I thought I'd test yesterday and found that although I know my place & dates of birth, I am, actually, a figment of my own imagination..... ....or maybe they just haven't done 1964 yet.... Spellings - I started a thread on this... they must have been real dozos when they transcribed.

I just cannot believe............the amount of mis-spelt names in the indexes......'M's instead of 'H's.............I have a french origin surname..........and is often spelt pronounced wrongly......but on one of the pages, (original) a 'x' is typed as ''z'' Bob

Yippee - I exist too. Well ..... the way I feel this morning I needed someone to confirm it!

Also fom May 1951;;; I do not exist ignore this message;;;;;;; Babs ps I've never been married as well;;;;;;; well only twice;;;

Valerie,, I thought you knew me!!

thank you i thought that , like i said brain must be in another planet Helen

so they didnt have you first then Pete ??? yes there are a lot of mistranscriptions I know , but it will get better

Lucky you, the 2nd 1/4 for 1945 is still missing!!!!!! And just for the record. I was born June 1945 only 2 -1/4's after my parents married are they trying to hide this from me? Too late i have my birth certificate . Ann

if you want to locate a name in the register it was the name you had at the start of he day. For births and marriages maiden name Deaths married name. ( you won't be looking for your death!) (yes there are some odd second marriage exceptions but...)

can i ask a qestion? did you ladies put you married name in or your name, my brain not working, or its in overdrive Helen

I've just found me on a mistranscribed page - they've only gone and taken the very last name listed as the end of the page range and it was a later addition/correction!!! twitts - thay must have had apes doing the work! Pete I'm registered 12 quarters after my parents marriage (and I'm the first born)

And you think you had a result! I found my birth registered five quarters after my parents marriage. So contrary to popular belief ......

hurray I thought I did exist and now I know I do finally found me on Ancestry, its easy when you know how .