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The Lighter Side / Gobsmacked
« on: Tuesday 14 March 17 22:42 GMT (UK) »
I recently very politely contacted a person who (through Ancestry) had 'taken' my grandmother to America, and married her to one of her relatives. I explained that I had her birth, marriage and death certificates, ( she was my mother's mother) and that maybe she had the wrong person. She emailed me back to say when she put her ancestor's name in the search box, my grand-mother's name kept coming up so she put it in her tree, even though the spelling was incorrect. I explained that in the 1881 census the name was misstranscribed but by looking at the rest of the family listed, she was in fact not hers. I also said that the reason being was that in many cases, people who were not familiar with the English language were used to transcribe documents. I suggested that by buying certificates that the correct information could be found and could offer more leads to other family members by witnesses, informants, etc.
This morning I received another email saying she had no idea that people other than Americans transcribed the documents, and in no way was she ever going to buy a certificate to authenticate her findings and that it was now time to 'pack it in'! I had a look at her tree to try and help her in some way, (you never know, we could of been related somehow,) and it was quiet long going back a long way. - I wonder now how much was in fact true....
This morning I received another email saying she had no idea that people other than Americans transcribed the documents, and in no way was she ever going to buy a certificate to authenticate her findings and that it was now time to 'pack it in'! I had a look at her tree to try and help her in some way, (you never know, we could of been related somehow,) and it was quiet long going back a long way. - I wonder now how much was in fact true....