Genealogy Chat

I was deadd chuffed, found my Johnsons dead easy, but no image with there name on;; Never mind, at least I have ref; no so can look at later date;; My only grip;;; friends and family wont leave me alone to play away on there;;LOL Babs

Sacker and Socher for Poacher Balders for Boldero (and my favourite so far ........) The parish of: St Cuthbert In And Out .................. like me you may be thinking St. Cuthbert took up the Hokey-Cokey, but no ................. it's actually St. Cuthbert in Wells. That one had me in stitches! Bev x

I have Buckland cum Bagnall. Should be Bucknall cum Bagnall Swinnerton S-o-T. It should be Shelton S-o-T Swinnerton is in Staffs but not in S-o-T. That's after only a couple of hours Gill Only on index right in image

I must be the lucky one. Have found nearly all of the people I was looking for, one back to 1756, pages were very clear. Have to add I have been up nearly all night, and have now run out of ink. lol Carol

I would like to say a good word for the transcribers,they have a very hard job. Found one of my rellies and the place was unreadable(to me) on image. Transcribed as Kingston Bagpuize!! I thought this cant be right. Looked on map there it is!! Was in Berks. Now in Oxon. So well done to them. Sylvia.

Susan - 1841 = Leman Just seen Mrs Smith - that's what it says on image too - no wonder the Smiths are so hard to track down :-)

Not mistranscribed but I find a lot of the mens names are shortened Thos Thomas Jas James Chas Charles Geo George Jno John Fer Ferdinand Well worth trying for missing ancestors. I did find Puinell for Pannell I think Geniford is an old name rather than a mistranscription. I think the transcribers did a fantastic job. I get a headache after looking at the images for half an hour.

Mistranscribed on 1841 Buckinghamshire census: Coleman as Coalman.

I'm wondering about the JNO and John / James.......... If you look at the shortened Thomas and then look at some of the jnos... it could be transcribed as james the es/as look the same...... What do others think? I haven't seen a JAMES writtens a James yet.......

Just found a Willa Winkle, but the image clearly shows Willm Winkle.

If you don't think you're up to transcibing do some checking as I do Susan. I check for BMD and sort out mistakes, it's not too good on the eyes but worthwhile. Jean

I do think a lot of the Ancestry transcriptions are very poor, compared with the 1901 census site, for example, which is much more accurate. I found one page in Birmingham from the 1901 census today where some perfectly legible place names have been horrifically transcribed: Thomas A Dixon abt 1817 Mineted States Blanche C Fisher abt 1870 NY, Minto Slater Louise Foster abt 1846 Cayton, India Harry M Hooper abt 1889 Cape Colong, Wiltshire, England The first two should be United States, the third is Ceylon, and the last one is Cape Colony in South Africa.

Walton on Trent missing completely. B***er. Why is it always the bit that I want?

Finally found Joseph Marjoram... Joseph Marjamaa

Looking for a Susanna found her as Jusana. Interesting note seen on one page 'refused to return form, information from servants'

Mayers - should be Mears

Scroll down for info on the census and it tells you what area are missing altogether (naturally the area I want isn't therethe law of s*d me thinks)

I know I've found one or two - but there wasn't a correction option, so I couldn't report them as would normally do. Transcription is always going to be tricky, but it does get irritating when the error seems obvious... but then I remember the time I copy-typed rubbish off my own handwriting... oops! Christine

You probably know this but for those who don't... If your using ancestry to look at the census and you find a mistake you can click on the 'comments and corrections' link on the right hand side to make them aware of it. Personally, I don't think there's a single Marjamaa in the country - all the ones I've looked at have been mis-transcriptions.

In my case Kohler was transcribed into the index as 'Kobbe' Cheers, Bill Sydney, Australia