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Offline weste

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 20:15 GMT (UK) »
They must have had experiences of codes in the war time. Have the transcribers worked at bletchley park?

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 20:24 GMT (UK) »
lol, ive done a bit transcribing, some of it is difficult to see but common sense is usually the answer  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 21:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Shillips for Phillips (!)

Cheers
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Ireland: Jackson,Storey,Harris
Ireland:Kirkpatrick,Moore.
Co Durham: Brough,Shields,Priestman,Stewart
Westmorland: Nicholson,Miller(s)
Liverpool:Edwards,Jackson,Mayston,Shepherd,Shepphard.
Holyhead:Roberts
Wrexham: Edwards

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 14 April 12 12:18 BST (UK) »
I found James Fryman transcribed as James Seymour ! No wonder it took so long to find him  ???
If I find an error I always correct it but add a little note about how they could take more care when transcribing  :)
Cutsforth - Hull
Blades/Donson - Lincolnshire
Forward - Hull/Lincolnshire/Polperro
Fryman - Grimsby
Seed - Dewsbury/Lincolnshire
McIlduff - Portadown/Glasgow
McIntosh - Aberdeen/Glasgow
Beattie - Angus/Aberdeen
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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 14 April 12 12:33 BST (UK) »
Some "dittos" have been transcribed as---Fred Ditto and not by the family name which has been dittioed.
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Mann Ringrose Prior( West London)Prior (Halstead Colchester and Sudbury)Ringrose (Northants) Clark(sussex  Bath)Light(Shropshire West London)Barber(Northants)Gaudern (Northants)Piper(Suffolk)Carter (Essex)Nightingale,Stiles,Dunk,Hedgecock(Kent)Mann(south Devon )Le Cronier,Le Quesne,Poingdestre,Esnouf,Le Guyt,Anley.Le Carteret(Jersey)Clark(Bath,Batcombe,and Nyland )
er(essex)Nightingale(kent Sussex)Sutton (sussex)

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 20:25 BST (UK) »
I found a Thomas Bean married to a "Charles" Bean !!!

Charles should have been Amelia !
Bloomfield, Knights, Whitmore, Warner (Suffolk)
Hamlin (London, Yorkshire, Scotland, Suffolk)
Mattocks, Newick, Nutter, (Kent)
Mattocks (Staffs)

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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 20:40 BST (UK) »

Gt. Aunt Matilda ended up as........Moubilou   ::)

Then I found the Kingaman family in St Elements parish in Nottingham, London;  (Kingsman,  St Clements, Notting Hill).......  ;D


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Ancestry Bloopers!
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 21:19 BST (UK) »
My Lincolnshire ancestors were all transported to Bovey Tracey in Devon.

When they got the county correct they got the place wrong, Pinchbeck comes up as Hendgebok, I ask you!
I think the people who regularly telephone saying we are paying too much council tax, there is a virus in my computer, we can have a grant for free loft insulation etc etc are moonlighting. They speak as ancestry spells.

Got a cold call the other day saying this firm were in the neighbourhood next week and it would be cheaper to have the barge boarding and fascias done at the same time as my neighbours. They had all agreed etc etc. I said they were very welcome to do the work if they could find barge boards and fascias as we had stone gulleys to take away rainwater . The caller slammmed the `phone down, I took exception to that as that is my prerogative!!!                                                                         

                                                                                        Viktoria.
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