The worst Ancestry transcription ever?

[Joannie Gardner]

That's bad and I have a couple also. In the 1921 census of Canada, my father (James Boyd McKinnon) became Royal Markusson. His grandmother (Mary Boyd) became Wang Bozel. Yikes.

[..claire..]

Welcome to RootsChat Joannie Gardner

The mind boggles at some of the errors in transcription that have been made and found

 

[HughC]

The transcribers and indexers at Ancestry.con have a combined IQ of 40 at the most.

Sometimes I think those who submit trees are not much better.
Certainly in the USA the motto is "anything goes".
"Oh, look!  There's a John Smith.  He must be the one I'm missing."

[Stanwix England]

That's bad and I have a couple also. In the 1921 census of Canada, my father (James Boyd McKinnon) became Royal Markusson. His grandmother (Mary Boyd) became Wang Bozel. Yikes.

  Wang Bozel sounds like a villain from Flash Gordon.

@wee Hugh, I can understand why people make that mistake. I'm forever getting hints for English relatives from American sources. Sometimes Ancestry is quite persistent in this, providing hints again and again for an American namesake even though I've rejected a few. It's very easy to put a foot wrong if you are not paying attention. I suspect it's particularly tempting when you have a missing relative.

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Another contender which made a search for the Jagger family in Chester in 1911 a little more challenging (correct names in brackets).  Fortunately I was able to use a combination of John's forename and place of birth - Huddersfield - to aid my search.

26 Cherry Road Bouryton (Broughton)

 John Henery Lassar  50 (John Henry Jagger or Jaggear)
 Rachul Lassar  49 (Rachel Jagger)
 John Nilly Lassar  24 (John Willy Jagger)
 Thomas Henry Lassar  21 (Thomas Henry Jagger)
 Albret Earnest Lassar  16 (Albert Ernest Jagger)
 Eaed Redpis Flassear  11 (Cecil Redvers Jagger)
 Repanal Arther Flassear  5 (Reginald Arthur Jagger)

Perhaps they were just taking the Mick out of the Jagger family?

Kevin now in Chester
 

[Treetotal]

  ...I wouldn't have their job for a gold watch. One of mine "Trunter's Assistant"...real job..."Fruiterer's Assistant"
Carol

[Geoff-E]

Perhaps they were just taking the Mick out of the Jagger family?

"They" was John Henrey JAGGEAR who wrote and signed the form ...

(father of John Earnest, Ceciel Redfers and Reginal Arthur whose surname he appears to have spelt JJAGGEAR)

FindMyPast has them all as JAGGAR, but I can't see why. 

[JOOBLES]

I had a Fisher wrongly transcribed as Plisher !!

[Sunnyhill]

In Family Search my ancestor William Frederick Layng is transcribed as William FREAK Layng in a couple of places. I complained to them about it but it seemed all too hard for them to correct it.