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Online Biggles50

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I fail to see…..
« on: Sunday 22 February 26 13:39 GMT (UK) »
How:-

Guisborough, Yorkshire

can be transcribed as:-

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

FYI, Guisborough is a small Town south east of Middlesborough and 109 miles north of Gainsborough.

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Re: I fail to see…..
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 February 26 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Probably depends how stupid the person transcribing it is.

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Re: I fail to see…..
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 February 26 14:32 GMT (UK) »
As my profile states:

HE/SHE WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE, NEVER MADE ANYTHING.

He/She who never made a mistake, never made anything.
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Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Re: I fail to see…..
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 22 February 26 14:51 GMT (UK) »
If you are referring to an Ancestry transcription,one reason might be the use of drop down lists  as explained in this thread here, when I enquired why Esh in County Durham had been moved to the Western Saraha.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=273480.msg1574631#msg1574631
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 22 February 26 15:15 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for that information, JenB.
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: I fail to see…..
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 22 February 26 16:07 GMT (UK) »
There is a Fairstead in Essex and a Fairstead in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. An ancestor was born in the Essex one yet a distant cousin's tree on Ancestry has the Norfolk one as his POB, but it is an easy mistake to make, maybe they selected the Norfolk one in the drop down menu or just got mistaken. I sometimes forget which parishes an ancestor was born and have to refresh my memory.

I have another ancestor who I found owned land in the Norfolk Fairstead in the 1600s.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
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