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Topic: Should we correct transcription errors ?? (Read 30507 times)
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teaurn
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1184
A lovely cup of tea
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Its not just census returns where spellings are incorrect I have had great trouble finding my great grandmother.
She was born under the name of PARCELL.
She married using the name PHAIRE (spinster so not second marriage) and where it lists the maiden name of mother for childrens births I have PARCELL - PA*EL - THEIRE - PHAIRE and PHAIR
so it isn't always a case of transcription errors but lots of confusion anyway
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Middlesex Burnett Clark Potter Cleary Avery Moore Howard Jode Keating Norfolk Rudd Twite Hudson Chapman Moore Spink Adams Suffolk Horne Cadge Sutton King Adams Essex Cable Wright Cumberland Forbes Somerset Clarke (pre 1800) Cambridgeshire Muncey Parcell Devon Flashman Limerick Hannigan Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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netgrrl79
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Posts: 262
RIP Horace Chambers ~ 14.12.1916-12.06.2010
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I get people who automatically put Katy without bothering to ask... 
KatIE (lol... ought to be KatFirefox  )
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WRY - Chambers, Burgin, Green, Bradley, Jefferson, Bates, Widdowson, Vickers; DUR - Brennan; LKS - Conway, McGunnigal; KEN - Harrison; GLA - Thomas, Jones; STI - Conway; SSX - Coleman, Freeman, Jefferson; NTT - Jefferson, Chambers; DBY - Chambers, Smith; NBL - Harrison; TIP - Conway From Little Acorns - http://little-acorns.floriental.org/FLA Blog - http://little-acorns.floriental.org/blog/ |
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Lesleysearcher
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Today I had to pt in a note on my own marriage record on Ancestory as I nearly did not find it as they had it in Malton Yorkshire instead of Halton Cheshire, 5 other family marriages in Halton were also mis trancribed as Malton.
I have also done a lot of corrections for poor trancriptions on Find my past this week and they are very quick to check comments and get back to you the corrections can take up to 90 days according to their e mail.
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dionysus
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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It seems to me that there are errors of fact and of transcription.
In the first the person completing the census form has been misinformed, making a genuine error, but these should not be corrected, otherwise the integrity of the raw data would be threatened and we would quite quickly beome unsure of whether the information is fact or opinion.
In the second, where someone has simply misread the sometimes very difficult handwriting, this should be corrected as it is merely clarifying what was actually written. Looking for a realtively simple and commonplace name such as Dennis can be frustrating when it has been transcribed as Dennes, Denner and even Damos!
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Brown, Wellington and Eyton upon the Weald Moors, Shropshire. Dennis, Brownhills, Staffordshire and Measham, Derbyshire / Leicestershire.
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carol8353
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 10751
Is this the right bin to put my kit kat wrapper in
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I totally agree with you Dionysus,I had trouble searching for an ancestor whose name was Fred (Frederick) it clearly said that,but had been mistranscribed as FROG 
Possibly a case of a drop down list of names.................ermmm maybe not!
Carol
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Bill749
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over 60 and still wearin' genes!
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I have never found out what errors were made with my family on the 1881 census as produced by the LDS - from the microfilm copies in the local library I know they were all here in Dover, but many of them have simply disappeared from the transcriptions they issued on CD!
As I have all the details from the "original" I can't be bothered to do long-winded searches to find out how they were transcribed.
Bill
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Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA
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robbo43
RootsChat Veteran
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Kathie 1932 - 2010
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Transcription errors on things like Ancestry, FreeBMD etc should be corrected. They are someone's impression of what was written on the original, if that interpretation can be shown to be wrong it should not stand, although the fact of change should be recorded. This is simply a stage in correcting and improving the transcription.
Factual errors, where the name or other information is wrong on the original should be transcribed as such but with a note of the error, if and when this comes to light, to help following researchers. Many of my late 18th c Davey ancestors were literate, or at least could write their name, it was always written by them as Davey, but when written by parish clerks or clergymen etc is always given (wrongly) as Davy. Davy should be the transcription but I always note that the family used Davey in my records (and some sites will allow this sort of information to be added).
Robert
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FLOOD - Exeter, Middlesex. DAVEY - Norfolk, Herts, West Ham. MILLS - Hampshire. GARLAND - Sussex. BRIGHT - Hampshire, GULLIVER - Hampshire, Sussex, London. NOCKELS - Norfolk. POMEROY - Exeter. RANDALL - Sussex, Surrey. REYNOLDS - Cambridgeshire. BOWYER - Cambridgeshire & Suffolk. STUPPELL - Kent. MISSEN - Cambridgeshire. TAYLOR - Cambridgeshire. TOWNSEND - London. CURTIN - London, GIBBONS - Suffolk, BROWN - Suffolk, SWALE(S) - Yorkshire
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