Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry

[kerryb]

Lloydy

first name only is my next step to try and find the 1851, the only missing census now for this family.  I found one of the sons last night as well under Fraise!  He was a pastry chef - a new occupation!!!!

Kerry

[Tati]

I found one of the sons last night as well under Fraise!  He was a pastry chef - a new occupation!!!!

How topical, Kerry !!  - Fraise is French for strawberry         

[kerryb]

  LOL

So it is!  Your on the ball for this early hour!!!!!!

Kerry 

[Lloydy]

He was a pastry chef - a new occupation!!!!

Wow! you lucky thing Kerry.  Mine are all Ag Labs or Weavers


You might be surprised by just using the first name.......I have found many of my JONES ancestors using this method.  They have been indexed as Janes, Janer, Joner, Fones, Foner etc etc etc  The mind boggles

If you can't find your family in 1851, and you'd like another pair of eyes to do some searching for you, just PM me

Jan

p.s. I was just about to mention the strawberry bit, but you beat me to it Tati!!!!

[Lloydy]

I have been spending rather a long time searching for a JONES (groan ) family for another Rootschatter in the 1841, and when I thought I couldn't find them the right Head of household name appeared at the top of my search results, and in the correct parish.

I started to get very excited, viewed the image, and....guess what.....he was transcribed incorrectly.  He'd been given the surname JONES (same as the lady on the above line) but the image clearly shows him as a LEE

No wonder so many of our Ancestors are missing

Jan

p.s.  I have been a good girl and sent a correction

[kerryb]

I found all the grown up Traies children on Tuesday with spouses in the 1881 and every single one of them had been transcribed as Fraies!!!!

Still can't find them on the 1851 though!!

Kerry

[Ecneps]

I've just corrected a mistake - if anyone was looking for Alice B. Pickthall they'd have found her under surname Hide.

Robert Weston Hide in index to census Thirsk 1891 was listed with wife Jane who had a yellow triangle next to her name, when I hovered the mouse over this, it said other possible name Alice B.   Apparently this was because they thought Robert had two wives living with him,  but when I looked at the image, Alice B.'s surname was very clearly Pickthall and she lived in the house next door.
 

[Paul E]

If you have any missing Roberts in your family, try a search for Hobert (across each census, but particularly fruitful in 1891)!

[RedFox]

I didn't take time to read through all the messages, but I had an experience with A.com where the names of two individuals were wrong in a census - I KNEW this because they were part if the family line I was researching.  I sent the company a memo; sometime later I noticed the entry had been corrected.  So it pays to say something as others have found.   Red Fox