Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry

[Ecneps]

I didn't think they would accept a correction without a valid reason, that's just stupid. 

 I agree with Bob, just add your own correction, and say why
 Barbara

[MarthaJane]

Well I don't believe it!!  Sorry to sound like Victor Meldrew!  Just been back to check.  On the first page of the record on Ancestry there is a mistransciption of Mrs. Parsons (the lodger's wife) to my family's name and he has added a note that it is a mistranscription from the original.  Fair enough.  The original is very plainly Parsons, another case of sloppy transcription.  I'm afraid I don't take much notice of the title page and only go by the original.

However, I now find that the whole of my g grand mother and g grand father's family has now been changed to Parsons!!  Including Thomas, my great grandpa!

My great aunt Minnie would be turning in her grave,    or is it the case that if you correct one name in a Census the whole Household automatically takes that alternate name?

I now have a contact email address for him so will get in touch when I have calmed down.

[O1dgobbo]

One of the problems is that the Ancestry correction form is inflexible and unforgiving.  I know that one correction that I made was totally wrong and I realized that almost as soon as I had submitted it.  But there was no way at that point that I could withdraw it or re-correct it.  As it was not a relative I quickly forgot the details and so cannot correct my error.  I am now (shamefully) aware that I have made a nuisance of myself to other researchers.  My humble apologies if it is a Rootschatter, who reads this.

Gobbo

[Ecneps]

is it the case that if you correct one name in a Census the whole Household automatically takes that alternate name?

Not too sure about their policy on this, I used to amend separately each person's details in a household, but it's such a fiddle on, so I now just say 'this applies to all members of this household' and I've found that the corrections are made accordingly by ancestry.

Incidentally, Gobbo, I too made a correction once and put the corrected surnames for a couple the wrong way round, someone contacted me about it recently as I hadn't realised until then, so I tried to amend it, but ancestry will only allow you to make one correction - so I told that person to put his own correction in to put it right, and that's what he did - it now shows both amendments.


Barbara

[Stumped!]

One (?) thing that I can't understand is how they show the corrections.

There are some with a little yellow triangle which show another possible name and then there are others with a cloud and a plus sign which permit you to see who has made the correction.

I think that I make all of my corrections in the same way so why should some of mine be different from the others?

Peter

[crystalight]

  I believe , please correct me if I am wrong  the little yellow triangle shows older corrections.
Since the blue cloud and plus sign, the corrections have been acknowledged by Ancestry and changed very quickly to come up on the relevant search.

I too have mistakenly made a wrong correction  I knew the second I hit the submit key. It has been amended but took several emails to help Ancestry realise what I had done. It involved  a different family member, although in the same household so I think the best way is to correct each individual in turn. 

Crystal 

[Ecneps]

Here's the link to ancestry's FAQ's about corrections:


http://www.rootschat.com/links/02df/

Barbara

[kerryb]

I came to the conclusion that I never got an acknowledgement from Ancestry about my corrections due to the heavy sarcasm used in my reasons - ie well comparing this name to other names on the same page starting with same letter it is quite obviously a mistranscription!

But that was the fifth correction of one particular name - Traies, currently on Ancestry transcribed as:
Praies
Fraies
Truies
Travis
Travies
Trayes

Kerry

[Ecneps]

I'm afraid I quite often just put 'obvious' as a reason      

Barbara