The worst Ancestry transcription ever?

[Andrew Tarr]

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Regards and thank you
phenolphthalein

Phenol - I am trying to work out whether your post is meant to be read as a poem ?  If not, why ?

I agree about the OCR.

[Douglas P]

I recently discovered a three year old boy transcribed as Gotobed.

It still amuses me. With four sons aged one to six, I can imagine that being said with a stern voice. He may have been Gordon.

[BumbleB]

Why would he not be Gotobed?  It is an accepted surname, certainly in England, and we all know that our ancestors used surnames as forenames - derived from "the son of Godbert"

[phenolphthalein]

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Regards and thank you
phenolphthalein

Phenol - I am trying to work out whether your post is meant to be read as a poem ?  If not, why ?

I agree about the OCR.

Yes isn't TROVE lovely.

First here is a Tydeman for you (I wasn't looking for it)

•   The Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 - 1972)
•   Wed 21 Feb 1962
•   Page 8

Secondly thank you for your comment I wasn't aiming to be poetic
More a shopping list. Ill and headachy. Trying hard to be understood and not beaten up.
Getting very very edgy.
Principal said to me about me there were too many illiterate scientists in the world.
Failed almost every poetry essay I ever wrote. Thankfully passed the one that mattered.
God bless John Donne.
I do keep mis-stepping.

HOWEVER, I will try to be FUNNY and poetic below

Kind sir I must apologise
You see I have some problems with my eyes
New methods I must now devise
And my layouts I must revise
So that we all may harmonize

To gain others trust
Just
Cross t's and dot all i's I must
Must

Regards and thank you
phenolphthalein

[ecksdochter]

Hello,
     Luckily I had viewed this 1871 Census at my local library before I saw the A*try transcription or I would have been completely stumped at this occupation, "Meshemse At Shonnerg Hill Wood Pabbian" - Mechanic At Spinning Mill And Publican.
               Regards,     Dod.

[Andrew Tarr]

Hello,
     Luckily I had viewed this 1871 Census at my local library before I saw the A*try transcription or I would have been completely stumped at this occupation, "Meshemse At Shonnerg Hill Wood Pabbian" - Mechanic At Spinning Mill And Publican.
               Regards,     Dod.

Now that has to be an OCR attempt?

[Duodecem]

Not the worst- but far from the best: 1841 census,Middlesex, the Garrett family appear to have kidnapped 1 week old "Kat Maund." Close inspection of the original reveal that the infant was, in fact "Not Named." 

[Peter Bathe]

The highlighted bit of this scrawl was transcribed as "grandson" but a quick look at the ages of the household shows this to be impossible. Judging by a capital "J" lower down the page, I've taken this to be "Journeyman"

[Andrew Tarr]

The highlighted bit of this scrawl was transcribed as "grandson" but a quick look at the ages of the household shows this to be impossible. Judging by a capital "J" lower down the page, I've taken this to be "Journeyman"

Whatever it is, I can't make it into any logical name for a relationship to a head of household.  It looks more like Forreyner (=foreigner?) to me ....