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transcribing errors
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Louise2212 | Report | 19 Mar 2005 14:14 |
i got excited when reading the ancestry details for the Tyrer family in 1871 --- It said Catherine came from Norway - when i clicked it clearly said norwich --- Source information: (RG10/3856: 129: 29) |
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Karen | Report | 19 Mar 2005 14:24 |
and when is someone going to realize that there is no Somalia in Somerset........? |
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Heather | Report | 19 Mar 2005 14:36 |
Or Kenya in Kent. Or Leichenstein in Leicester. Or Thadwete in Shadwell. Or Negania Wales in Virginia Waters?? We can live in hope (or hipe if we are ancestry transcribers) |
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Geoff | Report | 19 Mar 2005 14:49 |
I would guess that most of these places use the input of a 3 letter code eg LIEchtenstein LEIcestershire I've made the same sort of mistakes when transcribing for FreeBMD - Penrith can easily finish up as Penkridge if you're not careful. |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Mar 2005 14:52 |
Hopefully when they do the 1911 they will have a computer programme that can check place names against gazetteers. I do find it odd that my great-grandma's birth place is given as 'Camligger' when only 2 people further down in the list it says quite clearly 'Cambridge'. Surely the person transcribing must have thought - perhaps Camligger should be Cambridge too? Similarly I have found two members of a family one born Cobham Surrey and the other in Cotham, surrey! nell |
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Heather | Report | 19 Mar 2005 15:01 |
Geoff, hats off to BMD transcribers they are much more accurate and I guess more dedicated. I think we had a thread before on ancestry transcribers and it seems a lot of them are probably students doing temp work during vacations, so you can see how at some point some of them will get tired, bored or both! |