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Transcription errors 1861 Census - Tregony
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RolloTheRed | Report | 20 Mar 2017 09:04 |
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The transcriptions are done on contract by a Chinese company many of the transcribers have v basic English. A lady in my tree Freckingham was down as Fuc-ingham for years before Genes changed it. There is a method to update spellings on the trans pages. Other users can see these corrections. They are incorporated into the indices but Genes are v reluctant to update the original record. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 20 Mar 2017 07:55 |
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Genes don't transcribe the records they take them from FMP I think ,they are owned by the same company |
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Gadikeshga | Report | 20 Mar 2017 02:54 |
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In researching this Census, and relatives and neighbours, I have discovered quite a number of Transcription errors from the original records. These are obvious errors, not a question of trying to decipher handwriting. These are clearly just bad transcriptions. In addition, in trying to search a number of the original entries, quite a few of the entries, such as name searches, do not find the entry on the transcriptions or provide a result. |
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