ancestry.co.uk

[lisamc10]

morning guys

does anybody know how accurate ancestry.co.uk and how and where they get there information from ?

the reason i ask is that i have just found my birth details on there and my middle name is spelt mahie and not marie my birth month is also wrong,so if thats an error of a 1980s birth im guessing theres probably many with 1900 entrys ?

[PaulineJ]

The birth month does not appear in the index for births, only the quarter of the year. The Character recognition software probably mis-interpreted the R/H bit, unless it was an error at compilation .

[lisamc10]

hi pauline
 the quarter is wrong then,is that a common mistake or just a blip for me lol

[behindthefrogs]

It is the quarter in which the birth is registered not necessarily the quarter of the birth.  Registration can be up to six weeks after the birth.

[rosie99]

Have you clicked '.' to see what the actual register says 

Rosie 

[stanmapstone]

It is the quarter in which the birth is registered not necessarily the quarter of the birth.  Registration can be up to six weeks after the birth.

Registration can be any time after the birth. See Sections 4, 5 and 7 of http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20

7 Where, after the expiration of twelve months from the date of the birth of any child the birth of the child has not been registered, the birth shall not be registered except with the written authority of the Registrar General and in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and the fact that the authority of the Registrar General has been obtained shall be entered in the register.

Stan

[Barbara.H]

On the Ancestry 1916-2005 births, I couldn't find a name I was sure would be there in the transcriptions - I tried browsing the images and the name was there. It has been missed at the transcription stage.
Its like all transcriptions, human or computerised, there will be one or two mistakes. And sods law says, the mistakes will always happen to the ones you are looking for 

  Barbara

P.S. not forgotten your lookup Lisa, will be at the library next week 

[lisamc10]

 sorry for the late reply.

my birth certificate says i was registered in september so that will explain why im in the wrong quarter and i didnt know i could click the image till rosie pointed that one out.

hi barbara
im still on the murtagh mission and now i know about the registration thing its back to drawing board for me.

[Graham47]

I use ancestry.com and have found more that just several errors, in fact even my own entry had my first name wrong. On balance they seem to get most things right but having noted my own to be incorrect, I treat most with caution.

It's real minefield when the census taker with his dip and ink pen gets it wrong only for mistake to be replaced by another one when it is transcribed, but that's life I suppose.

I have also noticed that when looking for information that you have noted and taken off, a further search for the same information come back with nothing. Shut the computer down and restart and hey presto, it's found as if by magic!