Genealogy Chat

I always thought you wrote what you see!

Now Ancestry (1911) seem to transcribing as locals speak.

I found a long list of people born in Oxton - couldn't think where that was.
It was only the Ancestry transcriber dropping the 'h'. It was clearly Hoxton (London).

Gave me a good laugh.
:-D

The other thread on the Ancestry 1911 transcriptions seems to have been deleted after being reported for review. Rather surprising as it was uncomplimentary towards Ancestry's 1911 version and thus a plus for the Brightsolid version(s).

I hav'nt had much use for the 1911 on ancestry as my family are not on there yet. So am sticking to FMP

But I did see one yesterday which clearly stated place of birth as Liverpool and it had been transcribed as Pool.

Looking forward to when I can see what they have transcribed for my ancestors now :-)

By way of interest, there is a place called Oxton. It's an area of Birkenhead on the Wirral.

As was stated on the vanished thread, there are a lot of birthplaces which are transcribed as the last part of the actual place name. Pool and Oxton come into that category and there are no end of Wall, Cornwall entries. There is no reason for it being a simple transcriber error, it is some sort of systemic fault.

Apologises to anyone, like Alan, from the Wirral.

The entry I actually checked was definately 'Oxton, Stepney. Sorry, that should read Hoxton.

Funnily, I've tried to recreate my search to check that they were all London entries and I can't get the same list as I had before.

I just found it amusing to find it was the transcriber 'dropping their aitches' as sometimes one has to say names to oneself in the local accent to work out some of the diferent spellings.

I remember finding a Census from 1871 with an ancestor who came from Hema Lamsted
It did make me laugh!!
She must have had a right Cockney accent & the scribe who was taking her details had obviously never heard of Hemel Hempstead (she was then living in East london)

That told me more about her than any other of the factual details
Priceless!!

Oddly I have found my great great grandparents on the Ancestry 1911 Index but Genes say there is no record. It was the right place too!

Yes Glenda i have the same problem on many occasions as you are experiencing, very frustrating! :-(

Re: the Oxton list. Waay too many Hoxton people on there. I wonder if there was some sort of "drop down list" that got muddled?

Maureen

This is part of Ancestry's response to the comments on their blog:

"Most of the specific issues reported have centred around problems with the birthplace field in a minority of the records. Some of you have already correctly identified that this has not been caused by a transcription error but a glitch in how our systems are presenting the data. While we know what the problem is, developing and implementing a solution is not always quick or easy but we assure you that we are working hard to fix it."

For the full response and other problems that have been encountered see the Ancestry 1911 census blog.

I think MaureeninNY may have the answer (& KenSE).

To Eileen who pm'd me --AAAAgh!! Welsh places names!!!!!

It's even worse when someone moves from one place to another that has a similar sounding name when spoken with a heavy accent - the enumerator invariably assumes that the person is referring to the local version.After months of searching I eventually worked out that Bishops Teignton in South Devon was actually Bishops Tawton in North Devon.

I think sometimes a transcriber got their typing fingers a twist and the error is stored in the data base.
I am constantly doing corrections for Reg district Holborn instead of Holbron as typed Think once its in their data then it keeps coming up with same spelling

Not that I've got more than a passing interest (albeit somewhat prurient):

BUT

Has any one used the keyword
prostitute on the Ancestry 1911??

Many of them should read "private". means,etc.... although there is one Primitive Methodist minister!

Maureen :-D :-D :-)
Edit:
And this one:
1911 England Census about Josiah Johnson
Name: Josiah Johnson
Age in 1911: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Hull, Yorkshire, England
Civil parish: Sculcoates
County/Island: Yorkshire-East Riding
Country: England
Street Address: 134 Marlborough Avenue Hull
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Organ Builder Prostitute Dealer
Josiah Johnson 59
Fanny Johnson 54
Elsie Johnson 23
Jane Shaw 48
Source Citation: Class: RG14; Piece: 28736.

:-D :-)
that made me giggle lol

Another amusing one, which I saw in th ancestry blog is that Marie Louise's occupation is given as "Trimmer" instead of "Princess" and her "Lady in Waiting" is a "Lady in Waitress".

How did they make prostitute out of Pianoforte? :-D

Oh heavens,jax! Pretty amazing,isn't it?

You make it sound like some sort of a riddle with an answer that I KNOW will make me blush. Ha!

Best,
Maureen


:-) :-) :-) :-)

I recon the must have a list of occupations they can use and they just pick one that begins with "P" :-D :-D

ja...x

I guess some of them didn't get the memo about actually reading what the words clearly say.

OH could actually see pianoforte in that one example. He is about the last person in the world I'd choose to do any transcribing. He's now moved up to the ninth or tenth last person,etc.... We'll see-he might even break 50!!

Maureen ;-) :-D :-)