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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: polidor on Sunday 09 April 06 19:33 BST (UK)
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Does anyone know the reason why i can find a specific person in "Family Search" census but fail to find them in "Ancestry" census for the same year.?
Am i missing something here ::) Poli.
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Snap!
Glad it's not just me having that problem!
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Yep, don't know the reason but it happens to me too.... :(
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Some of the transcriptions on Ancestry are done very badly. When I started out, I used the 1901 census on the national archives site and found my greatgrand father. On ancestry they have a very poor image. My G Grandfather on ancestry has ?? for his first name, and his middle name was wrong. His sister was transcribed as Elizabeth when she was Isabella. Try searching for different spellings. I was searching for a Dennis Turvey and it turned out he was transcribed as Donnis Turney. One of my ancestors was transcribed as being aged 3 and a wife, when infact she was 23.
Andrew