Hi All,
I am just RANTING about the poor transcription of the Printed text found on the uploaded Electoral Rolls.
I was looking for George FUZZENS in the online electoral rolls. (to see if we could advance the following thread
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=745202.0 ) and at Ancestry I spotted the following Transcription in their Index for an entry in the 1908 ERolls for Victoria :
I clearly read this particular entry (line 2023) of the Australian ER 1908, MARIBYRNONG, polling at Footscray Middle as:
PARSONS, Thomas Joseph, 18 Arran st., Footscray, Fitter, M
Ancestry has it as
Ttwwaa Faisons, (for the name)
jasertb, il Arran it., Footscrav, (for the address)
Litter, (for the occupation)
Male.
Well at least they knew that M represented Male.
So if you have an ancestor, a British Subject, aged at least 21 years, and a resident of Victoria, Australia around the first decade of the 20th Century, and your ancestor has a given first name as
Ttwwaa ..... well, he is found.
But if you were looking for your ancestor Thomas Joseph PARSONS, .... well, just remember that there's that spelling variation of
Ttwwaa as an alternative for Thomas. And of course,
Ttwwaa lives at a house named
jasertb and
Ttwwaa does not have a second given name recorded on that Roll .....
Cheers, JM
PS Yes, Ancestry has been notified of the alternative transcription.
