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another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« on: Saturday 28 July 07 10:20 BST (UK) »
Over the last few days a few of us have been frantically searching for a possible surname Jude and I came across the surname Ida in the same area.
Ha! ha! - we delvers and diggers might think-a possible mistranscription.

Thomas Benn - wife and children Ida.

The enumerator had written /do to ditto the rest of the family- transcriber thought they were the Ida family.   ;D

As if it isn't difficult enough.

cheers everyone
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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 July 07 10:38 BST (UK) »
Another reason why there were so many errors in the 1901 census.  the documents were sent to India and Pakistan to be transcribed. after it had been farmed out to the Prison Service for the prisoners to transcribe that is and they couldn't cope with it.

It is difficult enough for people who have lived here all their lives without they having to cope with a language they have never seen written down in those earlier times.   ie. accents, dialects and misinterpretations by enumerators who in some cases were barely more literate than the people they were taking the information from.

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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 29 July 07 09:00 BST (UK) »
I have just found a new name to add to my tree. The family name is "DO" or "DOO" - rather unusual but can you imagine just how many transcription errors have occurred where they have written the surname as "DO" instead of using the original name (when "ditto" was written)

I agree, it's hard enough without the bad transcriptions  ::)


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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 August 07 22:05 BST (UK) »
My own personal best blooper is Caroline transcribed a Pardon  :o
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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 08 August 07 18:41 BST (UK) »
The latest one I have found is Clara transcribed as Orea.

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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 August 07 12:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: patrish on Wednesday 01 August 07 22:05 BST (UK)
My own personal best blooper is Caroline transcribed a Pardon  :o

Not only couldn't they read it properly,they obviously couldn't hear it either  ;D

Hence............pardon?

LOL

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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 12 August 07 13:20 BST (UK) »
and if anyone is searching for a 50 year old policeman in Norfolk on the 1841 census called James Blanchflower, he is transcribed as James Blanch Howes ::)

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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 12 August 07 19:12 BST (UK) »
There have been so many mis transcriptions in my hunt!

To name a few

Bruice and Brice instead of Bruce
Bacol instead of Jacob
Rollay and Roly instead of Foley

Still got a long road ahead of me!
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Northants: Brain; Bruce; Clark; Gardner; Haynes; Newman; Redley
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Re: another Ancestry transcription cracker!
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 12 August 07 19:43 BST (UK) »
I've just found a few people on the 1851 born in Thry, Shropshire. I think it should be Shrewsbury. HO107/1992/470/14
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