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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #207 on: Saturday 25 August 07 11:46 BST (UK) »
I'll add C/O
I've found quite a few men called Clive transcribed as Olive ;D

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #208 on: Saturday 25 August 07 11:47 BST (UK) »
Apparently much of the transcribing is done by machine, so I doubt it earns anything at all  ::) ::) ::)

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The "official" line is that it's all done by human beings!

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #209 on: Saturday 25 August 07 11:50 BST (UK) »
Hi

It's easy to get scornful of the poor Ancestry transcribers, who I suspect are non-English people working for a pittance.  And I have to confess that despite my feelings of superiority I do make transcription mistakes.  However, it is a pity that Ancestry does not seem to maintain a surname dictionary that might help them to identify the more outrageous mistranscriptions.  Talking of which, has anybody noticed the large number of British families with the surname Wanker.  I looked at one the other day and it was actually Parker.  I have just looked at another couple, one is hard to read but looks something like de Wenkse (1891 Stratford-le-Bow St Mary) and the other has a very strange initial capital but I am pretty sure is Rankin Bermondsey, 1891).

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I'm sure that many of us will admit that we've come across extremely challenging capital letters, and, if we can't hack it, take pity on trancribers in the Indian sub-continent, SE Asia and SE Asia for all the training they are given and lookup lists provided.......... never mind it was maybe the case the census enumerator got it wrong when he was transcribing from the household schedule  :o

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #210 on: Saturday 25 August 07 11:51 BST (UK) »
by machine????????  how????????

OCR and allied technologies............

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #211 on: Saturday 25 August 07 12:01 BST (UK) »
Thank you, have just had to go and look that up, not being very technically brilliant... it's still no excuse for poor transcriptions :D
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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #212 on: Saturday 25 August 07 15:31 BST (UK) »
I have a Jas. A = Elizth, Eleanor as Ebvner,  Dan l as Dane, Mary Wharton as Pay Wherson and if anyone is looking for Amy Gough she is Ary Sarah  ???

I know some of the originals are virtually impossible to read but the above were perfectly clear as to what the real names were.
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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #213 on: Saturday 25 August 07 15:34 BST (UK) »
Martha

That's the problem though, when it is read by machine, it defies logic. 

And doesn't it take a long time for Ancestry to accept alternatives??

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #214 on: Saturday 25 August 07 16:47 BST (UK) »
If they have used OCR, I'm a bit concerned about what type they are using. My handwriting is not the most brilliant and my OCR Reader/Software that came as a freebie with an old scanner 5 years ago can work it out  ???

Do you think I should let them borrow mine?

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Re: Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry
« Reply #215 on: Saturday 25 August 07 16:50 BST (UK) »
Now that's a good idea Gadget, and perhaps they'll let you have a year's free subscription to Ancestry.  ;D ;D

I think not ::) ::) ::)

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