Ancestry heading for meltdown?

[scriv2]

Well, you can click on the original image on the record and access the GRO page for yourself...and maybe scroll along to the next/previous image to find your ancestor if there has been a spelling mistake in transcription. Would that help?

The index pages on www.freebmd.org.uk are obviously running behind the new 1916-2005 BMD INDEX on ancestry.com as we are all genuine volunteers and strive very hard to transcribe exactly as seen.... but for as far as we have gone,  these records have been transcribed as correctly as humanly possible. They are also double entered and corrections admitted where a true mis transcription has occurred.

I really don't have an idea though how the records on FREEBMD have been copied over to ancestry.co.uk though, sorry.

[Redroger]

No what I actually meant was names not recorded on the index which may have been registered locally. I have a death at Doncaster in 1890 J.W.Luffham which is a non existant surname, but is sufficient like a name I am researching ,Luffman , who I know were resident in the general area at the time of the death. The deceased was 3 months old, and his birth does not seem to have been registered either.
Found this while browsing a register of deaths in Doncaster Infirmary compiled by the hospital. Moral: Never browse, it courts trouble!!

[scriv2]

Yes, I know what you mean! I had an issue where I was looking for and never found a 'Scriven' entry on the GRO Index.....only for me to finally come across it on a local index similar to the Cheshire BMD Index, where it was correctly transcribed.

On the GRO Index it was transcribed as 'Scruen'    Ah well.....

So, no, sorry, I don't know of any way to find those missing from or wrong  on  the GRO Index unless someone has posted a postem or an alternative.

[Redroger]

Thanks for your reply. Looks as though my only recourse is a visit to Doncaster Registry Office, and try to persuade the registrar.

[coombs]

Ancestry is still good though and is a growing site. It is one of the most popular sites and it has helped me immensely in my family tree research.

[marcie dean]

[.Nice little earner if you can get it. 

The banks run a direct debit guarantee scheme.  Which allows you to reclaim the direct debit through them at times you think something is wrong.  But if it is proven that the company taking the dd was kcorrect to do so, you have to repay it.

It takes 2 days to get to your kaccount, not sure if its cleared funds.

marcie

[coombs]

It could be the site just needs some technical maintenance.

[Redroger]

Thanks for the reminder about that Marcie.

[LizzieW]

I see they've added

a newly released online England, Alien Arrivals Collection  give you a whole new opportunity to search for your ancestors through the 650,000 names listed as arriving in the UK from ports around the world – but mainly Europe - between 1794 and 1921.

so maybe that's what's been causing the recent problems.

I had a quick look and if you knew the name of your ancestor, then you could probably find his/her arrival in the UK.  Unfortunately, just putting in a name, which is all I have, brought up so many possibilities that I'm no better off than I was before.

Lizzie