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Making jokes out of other people's spelling mistakes and typos is not funny at all.   

In fact, it goes against 'netiquette'.

"Messages and articles should be brief and to the point.  Don't
      wander off-topic, don't ramble and don't send mail or post
      messages solely to point out other people's errors in typing
      or spelling.  These, more than any other behavior, mark you
      as an immature beginner."


Internet 'netiquette', drawn up in 1995

Of course the real joke is that this thread is about someone's intolerence of someone else's mistakes !

Actually, I'm not intolerant of other people's mistakes, we all make them. My original post finished with a "grin" icon and was posted on The Lighter Side board - it was meant as a light-hearted comment.

Unfortunately there are some very pompous, humourless people on here who are too full of their own self importance and have their heads up their own backsides. If I'd realise that posting a glib comment about Ancestry was a hangable offence, I would have thought twice about it.

Anyway, I won't be coming back to this forum, I've got better things to do with my time.

I agree that, on the whole, they've done a great job and I am grateful to everyone who's put the work in, but I get so frustrated sometimes that I'm paying a monthly subscription but often can't find the people I'm looking for because of a glaring transcription error (Caroline Dodge transcribed as Cawline Dodge being another I found last night).

If it's true that the records were transcribed in China then that DOES explain a lot. Names that would be familiar to someone whose first language is English are probably guessed at by someone for whom it's not. It's a shame, but something I'll have to live with I suppose! 

Hi Valda,

Many thanks for all that info, that's brilliant. Yes that is the correct marriage so if her father's name is John then the 1841 Census you found is probably spot on. Sipson is/was only a village so it would be too much of a coincidence if it wasn't the right one. By the way, Sipson is right by Heathrow Airport and there was some talk a few years ago about bulldozing the village to make way for their third runway. Not sure what the state of play is at the moment - probably on hold (I hope).

Thanks also for the info about the other Keens. I'll have a good look at it all tomorrow when I'm a bit less tired - I've been on the computer all day and my eyes are glazing over! 

Many thanks once again, best wishes
Louise

EDIT: I've just found the marriage cert on Ancestry - they had her name indexed as Sarah Renn so that's why I couldn't find it before. I'm completely thrown that Henry's occupation is given as cheeesemonger. CHEESEMONGER? On the Census returns, his occupation is always labourer or carman  But his father was called William and he had a sister called Caroline so they both fit....

Can anybody remind me which show from previous years also had a celeb who had slave owning ancestors?

It wasn't the Colin Jackson or Spike Lee episodes.

Thanks

It was definitely Ainsley Harriott because I saw his episode fairly recently while I was house-sitting for a friend who has Sky TV.  Carol is right in saying that Moira Stuart had slave or slave owning ancestors too. I'm not sure about Hugh Quarshie, but I remember him going to an African village where his ancestors had been very important (sorry, can't remember exactly).

I hate the word "lodger" or "inmate" on a census because I'm never sure if the person I've found is "mine" and as he or she is living with random people it doesn't give me parents/spouses/siblings names!