another Ancestry transcription cracker!

[scruffypup]

Hi guys

No wonder my hair is starting to fall out searching for the Bonallie family;D  All these mis transcriptions around, I've had the DO problem,and I've come across Bonello, Boneller, Bonella to name but a few and thats before Sunderland BMD get round to sorting out births and deaths as well as marriages.  I found my 3 x great grandfather in 1841 living with his father in Scotland who was William Bonellie, instead of showing Alexander Bonallie on the same page same address I found a N K (not known, male for the right age) and figured out that's why I'd never found him, he moved to Sunderland shortly afterwards but as he was at sea in 1851 and 1871 he is missing again from the census.

All good stuff this family history searching isn't it

Yours Julie

[forthefamily]

When I was looking for the name Tate/Tait name I found Sale, Tale, Fate, and on and on... 

Then I thought that I had found new relatives I didn't know about but it turned out to be the people in the next house. They had been included in my family's census recap by the transcriber on Ancestry. So if anyone is looking for Woolley or Woosley in 1891 in Liverpool I know where they are.

[rubyrose]

How about this one, searching today for a relative in Thornaby on Tees, I came across someone born in 'Thom to be Beans' - mistranscribed from Thornton Le Beans. Sounds like a cruel and unusual torture!

Ruby

[ccr]

I think the best ones are in the Scottish Census  transcripts wher I have several brilliant ancestors who were Doctors age 3 and 5.  Transcriber obviously thought that was what Dr stood for
Chris.
In case you are wondering ---of course it's the short form for duaghter on sme enumerators script!

[g a r]

not a mistranscription but a howler for me

1841

Dr Perfect

[Paul Caswell]

Then there's the slight blemishes that contribute to the mistake. This is my third gt grandfather John Turner. He has been transcribed as John Seviner.

[crystal lady]

My best one to date happened today.  I've spent weeks trying to find ggfather William and today have finally been lucky and found him mis-transcribed as Warwick, the original census clearly shows Wm - shortened form of William.  Oh well, it keeps our little grey cells active!!

[Lydart]

My best (or worst !) to date was Friggle ... (don't look it up in the online dictionary, PLEASE !) ... and I discovered with the aid of a RootsChatter that it should have been Triggle (alternately Trygel)

[aghadowey]

Just finished Ancestry 3 dau free offer and got loads of new information but some of it was not easily found, even when I already had name, birthdates & places of people I was searching for. My great-grandmother was FELD and couldn't find some of her brothers and nephews, even tried Field, but eventually found them under Filt, Fred, etc.
All quite clearly written. Ended up searching for lots of people with first name, birthplace and approx. date.
Found one nephew with wife and daughter 3 times in 1930 census (wonder if that's a record?) and one brother and family I cannot locate in 1930 even though I know where they lived.