RootsChat.Com
Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: PhyllSmith on Tuesday 10 January 17 11:36 GMT (UK)
-
I'm sure i read somewhere that when the UK 1911 census was digitised in the mid 2000s it was transcribed by prisoners in some far east country where they didn't know the language / names - hence many of the transcription errors. I'm not sure if this 'ignorance' would make you more or less objective in your work myself.
Anyway, my question is - where did i read this? Is it true? I can find any methodology for how the holograph transcription was achieved now i'm looking for it - does anyone else know where i might find out?
Thanks...
-
Others may differ, but I believe the 2001 was transcibed by British convicts. The 2011 was transcribed on a contract by people whose first language was not English and who had never seen Copper-plate handwriting before, hence the number of capital Ls transcribed as S or T
-
Thanks for that Redrodger - do you know of a book or link which supports this? There should surely be something on theNational Archives or Findmypast's web sites?
-
I believe Phyll there is a thread somewhere on this site which gives confirmation. Why not try a search under 1911 census transcribers?
-
I believe the 1911 was transcribed in India the 1939 National Registration was transcribed in the UK
Cheers
Guy
-
It appears from other threads that 1911 was transcribed in the Philippines - and was subject to a FoI request about the status of transcribers, but the page has been removed from the NA website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/foi/1911-census-transcription.htm
-
I know earlier censii for Ancestry were transcribed by students in the Far East.
-
It appears from other threads that 1911 was transcribed in the Philippines - and was subject to a FoI request about the status of transcribers, but the page has been removed from the NA website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/foi/1911-census-transcription.htm
You can see it at http://web.archive.org/web/20130210000314/http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/foi/1911-census-transcription.htm
Stan
-
You can see it at http://web.archive.org/web/20130210000314/http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/foi/1911-census-transcription.htm
Stan
I tried archive.org earlier with the posted link and it came up saying it didn't have a copy of the webpage. :-\ Must have done something wrong. :-X
-
Got to love the wayback machine! Thank you, all. Not convict labour in this case then.