1921 Census

[rosie99]

I wonder whether Ancestry will get a list of amendments from FindMyPast or whether they will just keep the database as it is now.

[LizzieL]

I wonder whether Ancestry will get a list of amendments from FindMyPast or whether they will just keep the database as it is now.

I've just submitted mine to FindMyPast. First hurdle will be whether they accept/ amend the errors. And if so, whether the same changes follow on Ancestry.

My grandfather wasn't using his neatest writing on the form - I can just hear him complaining about the busybody government wasting his time in form filling!

[rosie99]

I have submitted lots to FindMyPast, I do it during quiet moments on here .  I have to confess that I rarely check to see if they have been done.  I will do some today and make a note of them with the date and see what happens

[Jon_ni]

I wonder whether Ancestry will get a list of amendments from FindMyPast or whether they will just keep the database as it is now.

I suspect it will be static on Ancestry with the standard 'add or update info' so displays alternatives which will get into hints as records are added to trees. The transcripts have been connected to the relevant images and Ancestry's database structure seems to really just allow for alternative user submissions. Field updates eg brithplace are manual by a human on FindMyPast, don't think Ancestry would do a later batch reload when people have them attached to trees, too risky, so no future feedback between them.

[Jon_ni]

Corrections submitted to Findmypast are listed under My Records > My Corrections.

Unfortunately there is no date indicated but here is one I submitted end Nov or early Dec.
It has been updated on FindMyPast
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1921/RG15/24372/0151/01
and when I open him on Ancestry there is a hint for the 1921.

Belfast is spelt correctly but the rest (house number and employment) unchanged, nothing changed for daughters Bessie or Ethel.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/63150/records/30961622

Occupation: Gweers Clerk.              Employer: Cooperotive Stores
Place of Work: Go Practice Stores Stockton Street W Hartlepool

When I look back and pick one from about a year ago I see that FindMyPast despite ticking corrections have not incorporated them into birthplace and they still show just Northumberland. They have added it as Town when open more actions - report an error. That I find annoying as I took the time to type and submit and it is what is filled in on the return.
Employer HAS been corrected from Alwick Catte Estate to Alnwick Castle Estate.

Kilham might not be the biggest of places but it is a Parish, as was Brunton, and it was their birthplaces as indexed on the 1911 census. Morpeth, James' birthplace, definitely is a Market Town and should show as such in the household members top section also Alnwick there for George William Davison and be searchable for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilham,_Northumberland

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1921/RG15/25718/0049/01
Ancestry shows the same as Findmypast with Castle rather than Catte and just Birth Place Northumberland, England for all!
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/63150/records/32932761

Looks like Ancestry took the FindMyPast database as it stood a month or two ago.

[coombs]

It can be challenging but fun to trace ancestors inbetween censuses, ones who were youngsters in one census, then in the next one they were in the next census living 80 miles away in service or doing an apprenticeship aged 17-21 for example.

In the 1921 census my grandfather's street of residence in the transcripts is recorded as East Ernest when it is East Street. While it would be a mammoth task reporting every error found in the transcripts, some can be a bit chucklesome.

[Andy J2022]

Just to confirm that the 1921 Census is available (for free) on the Ancestry Institution version which is available in many UK public libraries.

[LizzieL]

I wonder whether Ancestry will get a list of amendments from FindMyPast or whether they will just keep the database as it is now.

I've just submitted mine to FindMyPast. First hurdle will be whether they accept/ amend the errors. And if so, whether the same changes follow on Ancestry.

My grandfather wasn't using his neatest writing on the form - I can just hear him complaining about the busybody government wasting his time in form filling!

Just checked the entry I sent a correction for to FindMyPast and it's all been corrected. I don't know when it actually happened, but it was only three weeks ago I sent in the corrections - pretty good service..

[Andrew Tarr]

Belfast is spelt correctly but the rest (house number and employment) unchanged, nothing changed for daughters Bessie or Ethel.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/63150/records/30961622

Occupation: Gweers Clerk.              Employer: Cooperotive Stores
Place of Work: Go Practice Stores Stockton Street W Hartlepool

I think we all know the causes of this : sometimes transcriptions are done in countries where old English script is unfamiliar, or when they are done here transcribers are told to 'type what they see', and even if they suspect a word should be something else, they resist the temptation to employ common sense.