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CENSUS ACCURACY
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Chrispynoodle | Report | 25 May 2006 14:50 |
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Just been reading Ancestors Mag and saw an article about the accuracy of the censuses on different websites. Apparently Origins comes out top with Ancestry next and Genealogy(?) was last. I was under the impression that they used the same databases, but apparently not. So if you can't find a name on one website, it could be somewhere else with a different spelling. best wishes all Chris |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 25 May 2006 15:02 |
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Each will have paid their own transcribers to make the transcriptions which form the databases. Every transcriber will have their own idiosyncracies and pet errors. I know I transpose characters when I'm typing - and sometimes when I'm writing. I don't always see the error, so that's the kind of thing I'd be doing wrong. Not all transcribers have the background knowledge - or the inclination to spend the time - to get the transcriptions accurate. But thanks for the tip - ceratinly useful to have it brought to the fore! Christine |
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Chrispynoodle | Report | 25 May 2006 16:21 |
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Didn't think they paid their own transcribers, thought they would buy into each other's databases...so it is useful to know if you are at a real deadend |
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