The worst Ancestry transcription ever?

[Rosinish]

One day soon they will get computers to perform transcribing.  They will probably be more accurate than human transcribers.

Not read any further posts on this thread but this is already happening....computer generated transcriptions which has been mentioned previously on RC.

Annie

[Rosinish]

Jemima Crumpler transcribed as Fanina Oompler.

   .....I doubt anyone would have found that with the "variants" option either 

Annie

[BettyofKent]

I think I found her via her husband Thomas, at least that was transcribed correctly!

I've just found a Mary transcribed as Wavy on FindMyPast.

Betty

Jemima Crumpler transcribed as Fanina Oompler.

   .....I doubt anyone would have found that with the "variants" option either 

Annie

[Beeonthebay]

I was looking for a birth earlier on the Anc BMD's and dismissed one from Stroud, Gloucestershire but I couldn't find what I was looking for in Kent.  So I opened up the Stroud one to find somebody had corrected it to Strood, Kent 10 months ago and it still hasn't been amended.

No wonder we can't find people at times!!

[carol8353]

I was looking for a birth earlier on the Anc BMD's and dismissed one from Stroud, Gloucestershire but I couldn't find what I was looking for in Kent.  So I opened up the Stroud one to find somebody had corrected it to Strood, Kent 10 months ago and it still hasn't been amended.

No wonder we can't find people at times!!

Ancestry don't change their transcription errors,they just add a suggested amendments to the record.

[Beeonthebay]

I was looking for a birth earlier on the Anc BMD's and dismissed one from Stroud, Gloucestershire but I couldn't find what I was looking for in Kent.  So I opened up the Stroud one to find somebody had corrected it to Strood, Kent 10 months ago and it still hasn't been amended.

No wonder we can't find people at times!!

Ancestry don't change their transcription errors,they just add a suggested amendments to the record.

Really?!!  Even when they have the whole place name wrong!!! 

[pharmaT]

I'll need to go and check if there are still examples of Birmingham, West riding, Yorkshire on Ancestry.

[StevieSteve]

I'll need to go and check if there are still examples of Birmingham, West riding, Yorkshire on Ancestry.

As I understand it, if there was before, then they'll still be there.

What you really want to check is: for a record that someone has added a correction to Warwickshire, that it is picked up by a search with Warwickshire as an exact keyword.

[Andrew Tarr]

Here's one I turned up today, indexed by FamilySearch as LAYLUTORE.  The correct surname is pretty clear to me, but it's also clear that no amount of soundex or look-alike would ever find it in the index.  Answers on a postcard please ....