General Chat

I agree about the transcription being very poor. It took me ages to find my father and his parents.....only the last two letters of their surname were correct! It was only because I already had a lot of info on them that I eventually found them which rather defeats the object :-|

Maddie, I downloaded my grandparents image and successfully uploaded it onto my Ancestry Tree. In Gallery on your Ancestry Tree you need to click on 'Upload Photos' NOT 'Upload Story". You'll then see that JPG files are supported on Upload Photos....hope this helps :-)

Belle, silly me searching for Mary instead of 'Harry' :-| Took me far too long.

tyhank you, it has worked :-D

"Scooby, I'm wondering if it was the ad to the left of forums 'Find My Past - The 1921 census is here' which you saw? I think that ad could be misleading as the 1921 is not HERE."

Thank you Island, that's what I saw.

But after reading all the comments on here it sounds as if even with a sub to FMP the 1921 Census is not what it should be. I'll bide my time I think but in the meantime many thanks to everyone on here who has, and continues to contribute on the matter. I will keep following the topic.

In the special edition issue of the Lost Cousins newsletter dealing with the release of the 1921 census there was a suggestion that you do not download the transcription but download the original page.

I did that and noticed that although my mother's name was correct on the census it had been incorrectly shown on the transcription

Here is a link to that newsletter:

https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/1921special.htm

I certainly would always get the original rather than a transcription.
Even on previous censuses I frequently come across unnotified errors and add a correction.

Interesting article Kense especially that about Transcription Errors as follows
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Transcription errors

There will always be transcription errors – even the National Archives don't expect 100% accuracy. However, you can’t report transcription errors unless you purchase the transcript, and most experienced family historians aren't going to do that because the image and the associated documents are more informative.

I suspect this is something we're going to have to live with until the census is included in a subscription.
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The free 1921 search is linked to the transcription. I've asked FMP how I report an error in the transcription without having to purchase it and pay an additional sum. I've always found that the transcription is only as good as the transcriber and given the choice would always purchase the image :-0

There is an article in the Telegraph today saying that it is wrong to charge people to view 'something that was created as a national collective resource and not a private commodity'. FMP have said that they have invested millions to conserve, scan, transcribe and publish this important national collection, receiving no public funds for this work and are not guaranteed to recover its costs.
Some academics are calling for a campaign for a change to the census digitisation process.

It’s not as though this hasn’t happened before.

:-S

Further comments from Lost Cousins:

https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/midjan22news.htm