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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: dawnsh on Friday 21 September 18 14:54 BST (UK)
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Here's a conundrum I haven't been able to solve so far and I don't like being beaten by things on my own patch.
FindAGrave has 1000+ memorials listed for Greenford Park.
They are newly added within the last couple of months but they are far from complete, about 900 short for the date range.
So I contacted the submitter and asked here where the names and dates had come from.
She suggested she got them from gravestonephotos.com so I took a peek and couldn't see any there.
I asked again and she replied that she may have got them from deceasedonline but as she does loads of transcriptions she couldn't really remember.
Well deceasedonline don't have them either, so apart from the transcriptions and images on Ancestry where could this list of names come from without an obvious subscription?
If anyone can find out, it will be you lot out there!
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You would think that having put on so many records for that cemetery in the last 2/3 months they would know exactly where they got the information.
Sorry I can't see an obvious answer for you Dawnsh.
Rosie
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After further investigation, they have been taken from ancestry, incorrect spellings, omissions and all.
With access to the register images, you can see what Ancestry have missed, so has she.
As an aside, I have informed the cemetery's dept at the council about the omissions, pages and pages of images and transcriptions, but get the feeling there is not much they can do or want to do about it.
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Thank you for the update Dawn.
I suppose like any other type of transcription information should always be checked at source but sadly many people nowadays believe what they see without checking. Another site to treat with caution though I have never used it for my own research or for providing information on here.
Rosie
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It is hugely US focused, but has been useful for some people here, and UK entries are growing
There are 2 ways of contributing:
Finding a physical headstone and uploading the transcription & photo or
Going to a burial register and submitting those enties.
Based on her entries and availabilty of the scans at Ancestry, I've managed to work out what she's missed, and looked at her entries.
Freebmd is such a useful model in that they still plan to double key everything in the fullness of time and pick up the non-matches.
It should be the same for this, as interpretation of old handwriting can be tricky. We all know how accurate FindMyPast and Ancestry can be.
But at the end of the day I don't know how useful they are if people aren't submitting requests for headstones photos and just taking the bare info.
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Thank you Dawnsh
I think if I was to use it I would be more inclined to take photo's of MI's in a cemetery and post those.