Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry

[ibi]

I'll add C/O
I've found quite a few men called Clive transcribed as Olive

Betty

Thanks!

ibi

[ibi]

Apparently much of the transcribing is done by machine, so I doubt it earns anything at all 

Kerry

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

ibi

[ibi]

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).

Have fun

Gobbo

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 

ibi

[ibi]

by machine??  how??

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

ibi

[Ecneps]

Thank you, have just had to go and look that up, not being very technically brilliant... it's still no excuse for poor transcriptions

[MarthaJane]

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.

[kerryb]

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??

Kerry

[Gadget]

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?

Gadget

[kerryb]

Now that's a good idea Gadget, and perhaps they'll let you have a year's free subscription to Ancestry. 

I think not

Kerry