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ancestry co.uk going crazy
« on: Wednesday 27 February 08 13:49 GMT (UK) »
Anyone else experienced this -

I'm looking for family in Surrey 1851 and three times in a row when I have 'hovered' on the view record bit on Ancestry  have had listed on 'rest of family members' a list of names like this -

James Brownjohn  6
James Brownjohn 30
James Brownjohn 11

when I looked on the original census there is not even a name remotely like the one listed.

On one there was an even longer list of the same name with different ages and not one was on the original census!

Just had another go and  on the whole page of results the same thing is happening!

Is it me ....................... :)


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Re: Bizare transcriptions
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 14:02 GMT (UK) »
Same thing happened to me 5 minutes ago

Ann Heppelwhite 70
Ann Heppelwhite 67

bearing no similarity whatsoever either to anybody in the household or indeed anybody else on the page!

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Bizare transcriptions
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 14:11 GMT (UK) »
Oh, that's all right then!  I thought it was my computer for a minute.  Perhaps it is some sort of glitch...  Seriously, though it doesn't make my search any easier.  I think I'll leave it and come back tomorrow.

Thanks Anna

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Re: Bizare transcriptions
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 14:54 GMT (UK) »
It seems to be a new problem today - it only happens on the summary page, so if you click on "View others on page" you still get the correct names without having to go to the image.

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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ancestry co.uk going crazy
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 16:19 GMT (UK) »
is it just me or has anyone else noticed that when you get the source citation page for a census year up on ancestry and scroll down the page to see the people living there they all appear to have one name.
an example on 1851 census for sarah swain;/ HO107/1534/69/55.
the only name that then comes up is james beeston and jane beeston.
could SKS have a look and see if they get the same result.
cattell,alcester
vickers,sulgrave
hewish,holborn
manley,bethnal green
barnes,bassingbourn

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Re: ancestry co.uk going crazy
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 16:26 GMT (UK) »
I thought my eyes had finally gone  ::)  I have been looking for the surname Rice on numerous censi, found one, when I clicked on it, all the reisdents were listed asa Williams  :(


Glad it's not just me Wozzle   ;D


Jane
LEICESTERSHIRE & MIDDLESBROUGH - BOLLANDS, GORE,
LINCOLNSHIRE - BAKEWELL, MARRIOTT
MONAGHAN & CRAMLINGTON - RICE
LAZENBY - HANSOM, HARRISON, NODDINGS, EASBY
BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD
DANBY & WHITBY  - JEFFELS
LIVERPOOL - GANDER
SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON
BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON
BROUGHTON - HARRISON
MIDDLESBROUGH - WARD,FOSTER
PINCHINTHORPE -  POSTGATE
BILSDALE- BOYES


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Re: ancestry co.uk going crazy
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 16:35 GMT (UK) »
Now you come to mention it, I had the same problem too.

See how it goes tommorrow.

Viv
Gywnedd/Caernarvonshire: Roberts, Evans;
Glamorganshire: Griffiths, Thomas;
Middlesex: Sibley, Barnett;
Beds: Sibley
Kent: Jury, Hunt;
Yorkshire/Middlesbrough: Wright, Sullivan;
Irleand/Cork: Donovan, Sullivan;
Northern Ireland (Monaghan): Keefe;

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Re: ancestry co.uk going crazy
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 19:13 GMT (UK) »
The first family I looked up this morning all had my own name - quite spooky until I realised it was a glitch!  ;D

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: ancestry co.uk going crazy
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 27 February 08 19:16 GMT (UK) »
I've just had one - clicked on one of the names in the list and it came up with a totally different name, as did the next one I clicked on and so on.

Really wierd.  Haven't come across my own name yet though!!

Viv
Gywnedd/Caernarvonshire: Roberts, Evans;
Glamorganshire: Griffiths, Thomas;
Middlesex: Sibley, Barnett;
Beds: Sibley
Kent: Jury, Hunt;
Yorkshire/Middlesbrough: Wright, Sullivan;
Irleand/Cork: Donovan, Sullivan;
Northern Ireland (Monaghan): Keefe;

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