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Gwen

Gwen Report 16 Jul 2006 15:54

I expect all you experienced researches know what I am about to say. I have a copy of a census from 1837 online and on it shows a child called Will Ed Burwash and I have been looking for him for ages. Today I thought I would check the original image and could not find it even though I was using the page and folio number. The nice peeps on here helped me find it because all the names on the census were transcribed wrong, but on my copy they were not. I have checked the orignial image and the name Will Ed is not shown on the original so I have wasted time looking for someone who does not exist. I have learnt a very valuable lesson always check the image and thought I would tell all you newbies to also. Gwen

Gwen

Gwen Report 16 Jul 2006 16:07

Thanks Joan for that but he is not one of my family yet they included him on the census copy I had. The census on ancestry is totally wrongly transcribed but have sorted it now thanks. Gwen

Sarah

Sarah Report 16 Jul 2006 18:38

I agree Gwen, ALWAYS look at the image!! I was looking at one this morning that had one chap completely missed off the transcription (last one on the handwritten sheet, just under his dad) He's a sibling of the person I was looking for so finding him was a bonus but I guess an ancestry search won't find him. Same family, though different generation, of the ones I also found this morning that were enumerated twice in the same street - the transcriptions are NOT the same (though similar) but the images hold EXACTLY the same information. Sarah :-)