« Reply #111 on: Monday 21 November 16 13:56 GMT (UK) »
I used to be a transcriber, and unless you have actualy done it you dont realise how hard on the eyes it can be as some of the records are a total mess and very hard to transcribe, I done it for 4 years but I had to give it up because of the strain to my eye s, I think people who do this job and may I say most of them are volunteers as was I are doing the very best they can do and have helped so many people with their research
Rayel, I certainly had no intention to cause offence. I think the transcribers on the whole do a marvellous job, which is clearly extremely difficult at times. However, there are times when transcriptions bear so little resemblance to the original that one has to wonder what was going through the transcribers mind! I have attached the original of my ancestor's census return for comparison purposes.
I have attached an image of my ancestor's census
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.
