Genealogy Chat

Hi Kathryn B

Just read your sentence about Mercy Tucker - laughed out loud!! Thank you for that, I needed cheering up.

Gill

Oh, Huia, you've been playing in the Great Big Giant Everybody In the Universe One Whole World Tree!

That way lies madness.

My Littler line has had exactly the same thing done to them. We've never quite been able to connect my line up to the granddaddy in 1605 in Cheshire, but his identity as the source of a line of US Littlers is known. So somebody has stuck one of my Cheshire/Leicester Littlers in as the grandson of a US Littler born 200 years later. I didn't get any reply to my own query about why someone would do that.

I've never contributed to nor taken anything from that dog's breakfast myself. You mean it just does things automatically?? Yeesh. Worse than Hot Matches!

But just on the transcriptions themselves, i.e. of censuses -- try a search for "Monck" and see all the various things I've corrected to Monck from what they were. Mouck, Mouch, Morck, Morch, Morek, Monak, and much worse. Ditto for Monk: Mouk, Mork ... How many of those are actually real names? Hint: none. Except in rare circumstances, like a Morck family from Norway.

Then do a search of the census databases for every dirty word you can think of. You'll find people named 'em all. Imagine paying Ancestry its big whopping fee to find your ancestor being called ... well, I won't say, but let's just say that Mercy Tucker didn't fare well. She provided an hour of amusement in my living room though.

My other favourite was Francis Pukes Montoger. Or Francis Dupré Montagu, if you prefer.

I gather, though, that Nimrod Squelch was a real person ...

Kathryn, you refer to Ancestry's usual quality.
The other day I found a member of that site had my sister married to a man who was born 203 years before she was (I repeat, 203)!! and they had a child born 180 years before my sister! I contacted the person and she said she 'got it from a hint' somewhere. Then she said that she hit the accept button and it added everything. This is one of the reasons why I will not add things I find on the internet without first checking things out and finding proof for myself.
I was rather annoyed to put it mildly, but I think I have calmed down now.
Please, members, be careful what you put, research carefully. There are so many false trees out there.

Huia.

Hi carole
I found some ancestors on the IGI and wrote to the submitters in Utah but first I checked the american white pages (phone book) to see if they lived at the same address They had moved, so I wrote to them and they put me in contact with the family historian,
I also wrote to other people and found out that the wrong submitters names had been put on some of the entries

Bren.

And I'll try Ancestry.ca, if no luck with automatedgenealogy -- it isn't complete yet, and fuzzy searching is very complicated there.

The 1901 and 1911 Cdn censuses (and 1906 Western Cdn census) are horrific -- the original entries are often illegible blotty scrawls, and the transcription is, of course, Ancestry's usual quality. But the population was small, so searching by all possible combinations of details like names, immigration date, birthdate, parents'/spouses' names, can succeed. Also, birth and marriage records, which are available for Ontario, can be searched by parents' names.

So let's have 'em!

Carole, have you tried looking on
http://www.ingeneas.com/

There is a fee, but it has SOME immigration records. Here is an example:
Record # Surname Given Name Born Circa Year of Record Source
825845 Furnival Martha 1861 1870 Passenger Record
"Martha Furnival
Age: 9
Year: 1870
Price: $8.31US; $8.31Cdn.
Description: LIST OF PASSENGERS: aboard vessels arriving at the port of Quebec City, Quebec and/or Montreal. Typical records in this document contain the following information: port and date of embarkation; ship's name; port and date of arrival; passenger's name, profession or occupation, marital status, age (or whether adult, child or infant or by age grouping); place at which passenger has contracted to land; and, sometimes, destination in North America. (Note: with each transcript a summary will be provided of the names and ages of other passengers travelling on the SAME ticket number, so there is usually no need to purchase transcripts for other family members.)"

You can check out that 1901 Canadian census yourself at:
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/index.html

I tried doing that but got no response from the address and no letter returned as no longer at this address. i did supply a stamped address envelope for a reply but ziltch!!

As has been said you dont know how long ago the record was submitted so it may be a long shot.

Thanks for the reply Dee.
I've found an online site that has passenger lists but it's only searchable by ship and there are hundreds of them!
I don't know where he sailed from or to only where he ended up. That's why I wondered if the submitter would have anymore info.
Carole xx

After much hunting through the census a rellie disappeared. I put a search in IGI and found a pedigree file that says this person went to Canada in 1886. It also tells me the district and that they were living there in 1901.
What I really want to know is can you contact the submitter (It gives name and address) and if you do , are they likely to know anymore than whats on IGI.
I would love to find out the ship he sailed on, as other members are missing also, and maybe went with him.
Carole