Incorrect Census transcriptions on Ancestry

[kerryb]

Nice one Barbara - after all you're only stating the obvious! 

Kerry

[Willow 4873]

I usually put 'transcript error' - think that covers it

I do think they should have a delete button for if you do realised you have put wrong information in. But it should only be usable by the person who put in the entry

willow x

[crystalight]

I agree Willow, it would have saved a lot of explanatory emails from me to Ancestry. At one stage they replied telling me to contact the person who had entered the correction 
I also usually put transcription error

Crystal 

[Willow 4873]

Saying which I have just found my one Holmes family mistranscribed as Halmos (I can see what it says but there again I know who they are)

Ho hum corrections to do

Willow x

[Mum44]

Usually put "careless transcription"
Also, in the ocassional surveys they do, I always put "improve standard of transcribers" as something they could do better - don't know whether they read it, but they did ask!

[ambers]

When I find a family surname spelled incorrectly, I submit a correction for each family member separately.....long job sometimes with so many children
 
Should I just submit correction for the head of the household surname, and Ancestry will correct the rest of the family  automatically ?

Also should I ever find a correction for one of my family surnames...where is the username of the person that has done the correction shown.? ....it would be a brilliant way to make contact with rellie's.

Ambers

[Gadget]

Am I very wicked and irresponsible?

I don't bother to tell them 

It saves a lot of time and hassle 

Gadget

[Mum44]

I have found that laterly other family members in the same list get their names changed too - but just to be on the safe side I change the father and put a note in the comments box "joe blogs, his wife and 9 children"

This seems to work - although I agree it didn't used to be the case and one had to do them all one at a time.

When you find a person with an amended name  -  one with a blue blob +. not the yellow triangle - click on that amended name and up comes the details.

Not everyone is contactable, it seems, but I have made and received several excellent contacts through this amendement posting on ancestry.

[Mum44]

Gadget - I really dont know you well enough to say whether you are wicked and/or irresponsible (!)      - but it's nice to have a search bring up a possible 'cos someone else has made an amendment - otherwise you'd have to go through the whole field by field search, which seems a pity if someone else has already done that and discovered them!