1911 census

[wrjones]

I have to say that my conclusions are widely shared on many Mailing Lists and Message Boards.As a by no means trivial aside to this,if Ancestry had operated on a similar basis to this I would have been bankrupt many times over by now!Until it is available on another platform on a more reasonable basis I will continue to ignore it.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

[Necromancer]

BrightSolid / FindMyPast have a 6 months exclusivity agreement from the time of their version being 'fully launched' - so any other provider would then have a long lead time after procuring the new films (all done from scratch by BrightSolid) and a licence from the Nat Archives, do thir own transcription and ......

[plimmerian]

Have to say not used 30 credits on original views (robbery!)but have notified them when I think or know a transcription is wrong. Pleased to say had emails to say all the ones I have reported have been corrected!

(Yes, I know, it should have been done correctly first time!)


 

[ankerdine]

I agree with the many rootschatters on here that the spellings and mistakes on the 1911 are a disgrace. Who actually transcribed these records? Don't they know anything about searching for correct place names in an atlas or somewhere? Also it's just general incompetence when they put "France" instead of "Francis" when the chap's father is spelt correctly just above.

What about these three... Yorks, Knowerborough, Staffs, Mesclelomer and Scotland, Straumer.

No wonder they would prefer us to spend 30 credits to read the original rather than 10 for a transcription.

Judy

I have just read the previous comment and I have notified them too if I notice an inaccuracy in my family's record.

[louisa maud]

Why are people sounding so angry?, we have a choice, buy or not to buy, no need for people to feel so angry, can't any of these companys do anthing right now, we were all after decreasing the 100 years, ok, 3 years is neither here nor there but we have it NOW.

LM

[wrjones]

We do indeed have a choice,it is whether we contribute to this Companies gross profiteering or not.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

[Nick29]

louisa maud , I agree with you up to a point - it's our choice whether to pay the price asked, but having paid it I think we have the right to expect a quality product, and the quality of some of the transcriptions stinks.

[plimmerian]

have a friend who researches but suffers ill health - she is delighted to have been able to view her ancestors on the 1911 census - when she thought she might never get to see it or fill in some gaps!  

she does agree it is very expensive though but in a money ruled world we can't expect anything less! I think we should get a refund of credit for poorly transcribed entries though, which might get them to check the whole thing again with care!

 

[Necromancer]

back to the debate about FindMyPast charging full-whack for images et al during the Beta-Test period - some were saying that it was still a 'privilege' to be able to see their ancestors, despite being expected to 'test' and comment on mis-trans etc .....

Now we have 'quality issues' in the almost-final product, tis interesting to note how the views are skewing round to FindMyPast being the villain