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This is for anyone searching the 1841 census on A***** for a person who they expected to find in St.Alkmund, Derby and cannot. I've just found pages in District 11 where the transcription errors are numerous, not helped by very bad handwriting. Knowing some of the common surnames used in the area, I can see many that appear to have been indexed incorrectly. I usually only submit corrections for known persons/families, and I don't really want to compound errors for these unknowns by doing the same. It maybe worth cross-checking on other sites that carry the 1841 census to see if your missing ancestor magically appears.

Hi Liz,
I'm trying to trace information on John Oldknow b.1813 Smalley, and his possible connection to a Sarah Fletcher b.1801 Nottingham. I wondered if he was a descendant of John & Hannah mentioned in your original post.

John's daughter Caroline had an illegitimate son George H Oldknow, who appears - detailed as Grandson - with Sarah Fletcher on the 1861 census.

Sure enough, the samples match each other big time, but when I do the one-to-many match, they don't match! Some are there, but my closest match on both the original Gedmatch and on the directly uploaded sample doesn't figure AT ALL on the transfered kit!

When you log onto GEDMatch Genesis, check the list of kits under "Your DNA resources:" If one of the matching kits has an "r" next to it, this indicates a research kit that will not show up in one-to-many, but can be used as an initial kit to match against.

Thanks for those links Margaret, it's very interesting to see that the number of people tested at Ancestry has reached 10 million, and conversely that the amount of tests on GedMatch is so low.

As most results can be uploaded to GedMatch, and the matching tools available seem to be the best available, I would've expected more take-up, although GEDCOMs are quite sparse, possibly to deter those pesky name-collectors.

I added a link to this in the Derbyshire Resources forum...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=625438.0