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Vivienne

Vivienne Report 13 Mar 2011 01:58

Can you copy records from FMP to Ancestry please

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 13 Mar 2011 08:10

You can copy from FMP but only to your PC.Each site is controlled by their owners so you cant add anything other than make transcription amendments which they will look at and agree or not.

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Vivienne

Vivienne Report 13 Mar 2011 09:06

Thanks for that

MarkMorgan

MarkMorgan Report 13 Mar 2011 19:08

If you have your tree online on Ancestry there is no reason that you cannot cite records you have found on FMP but you would probably be in breach of FMP terms and conditions if you uploaded source images you obtained from FMP to Ancestry.

Mark.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 14 Mar 2011 18:21

Out of interest, what was the reason behind your question?

Vivienne

Vivienne Report 15 Mar 2011 00:23

I have found records on FMP that ate not on Ancestry

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 15 Mar 2011 09:51

Chances are that they are there, after all, the underlying originals are exactly the same, regardless of which site you use, it's just that you can't find them when searching.

What is likely that the details has been either mistrancribed, or missed altogether off the search index. It is actually quite a common problem. When you think about it and error rate of just 1% means that out of every million records, 10,000 are likely to be missing or incorrect. In practice, an error rate of less than 5% is considered good.

Sometimes with a bit of lateral thinking it is possible to turn up the record and then if it is mistranscribed, submit an amendment to Ancestry so future researchers won't have the same problem.

Potty

Potty Report 15 Mar 2011 12:38

I have definitely found a census record on FMP that is not on Ancestry. It is for the Bradpole area of Bridport in Dorset. The ED is No 3, Registration District Bridport. If you search on Ancestry by county and then Reg District the only EDs that come up for Bridport are nos 1a to 1g.

There is also a transcription of this census on the Dorset OPC Bradpole page.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 15 Mar 2011 16:42

Yup,

Sounds like one of those that got missed.