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The Common Room / Re: Poor transcriptions
« on: Monday 10 March 25 06:51 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Andrew Tarr on Sunday 09 March 25 23:05 GMT (UK)
The purpose of transcribing is to make records available to enquirers, not simply to create an exact copy of whatever characters can be made out in a puzzle document.

Thank you, Andrew.  Unfortunately Ancestry (and to some extent FindMyPast) haven't grasped that simple truth.

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The Common Room / Re: Poor transcriptions
« on: Saturday 08 March 25 08:10 GMT (UK)  »
An important reason for transcribing is to create an index so that one can find people.
Therefore it makes sense to transcribe what was obviously meant, not (for example) what an enumerator mistakenly assumed was written.

And transcribers should have been chosen who had at least some idea of names of people and places.
Given that that was not done, corrections submitted by relatives should be accepted.
Ancestry's handling of the 1921 census is a disgrace.

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The Common Room / Re: Poor transcriptions
« on: Saturday 08 March 25 06:53 GMT (UK)  »
It annoys me that when I submit a correction to the 1921 census to Ancestry, it is shown only as an "alternate": a search using the correct spelling is still just as unlikely to find the person.  So why do I bother making corrections?

In my experience you can forget My Heritage.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Looking for marriage of a Joseph Caskey (1790) whom had three children (Joseph…a
« on: Saturday 08 February 25 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
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The Lighter Side / Re: Advice on GRO Regimental Birth Indices
« on: Wednesday 02 October 24 06:58 BST (UK)  »
The plural of index, in the sense of an ordered list, is indexes.

Indices are numbers, such as the retail price index,
or superscripts and subscripts.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary summery wk ending 8th September
« on: Saturday 07 September 24 18:20 BST (UK)  »
It was anything but summery when this thread started,
but today it topped 22° here in Northern Ireland: the warmest day this year.

Perversely, it's the day chosen for the first rugby match of the season at the Ravenhill stadium.
Must be very uncomfortable for the players.

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Canada / Re: who was Gladys Clarkson and what became of her?
« on: Thursday 05 September 24 06:47 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, dbree.

I assume that Frank was really Francis, but it's strange that that has been assigned to Gladys as a middle name, and his surname misspelled (as again in the 1931 census).  Somebody must have had terrible handwriting.

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Canada / Re: who was Gladys Clarkson and what became of her?
« on: Wednesday 04 September 24 17:24 BST (UK)  »
That's brilliant, Eileen: it even says who her father was
(though I can't find Jacob and wonder whether it was a misunderstanding of Job).

Many thanks for your swift help.

She must have married Francis (Frank) Herritt in Ontario,
so we probably wouldn't find it without going to the record office,
but I don't need to know as I'm related to the Clarksons.

By the way, some fool has submitted to Ancestry.com that she was Gladys Ponica Picture.
But we know about Fanciestree.con, don't we?

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Canada / who was Gladys Clarkson and what became of her?
« on: Wednesday 04 September 24 16:53 BST (UK)  »
Vivian Hugh Clarkson was married in Winnipeg on 24 July 1910 to Gladis Pitcher
[Manitoba vital statistics web site].  No ages or other details given.

In the 1911 census they were still in Winnipeg; Gladys, born in England, gave her age as 20 but one column has March 1890 -- or 1891: the last digit is smudged.  As the census was taken on 1 June, 1891 is more reasonable if she was telling the truth about her age.

Aged 25 in the 1916 census.  I have tended to assume she was the daughter of Job Pitcher of Grays Thurrock, Essex, aged 2 weeks in the 1891 census.  However, a couple of others named Gladys Pitcher were born in that year (or at least aged less than 1 year when the census was taken).

In the 1931 census the Clarkson sons are in Port Arthur, Ontario, stepsons of Frank Harriet.
Can there really be a surname Harriet??
His wife Gladys is now aged 39 and apparently born in Scotland.
Vivian had also remarried by then.

Can anyone help me sort out who she really was and who was her second husband?
Then we might even be able to find out when and where she died.


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