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From: "Hugh Ainsley" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] 1841 census on Ancestry.co.uk
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:48:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200604251338_MC3-1-BDD9-B29C@compuserve.com>


> .... and using a good bit of ingenuity! You mentioned the word bizarre!
> What is more bizarre than finding a widowed daughter living with her
> father transcribed with her father's surname?

Indeed... it reminds me of the errors i was finding in the 1901 when I
was a checker - and took a surreptious look at some post-final-
checked folios. Such things as John SMITH's daughter Jane Anne
indexed as Jane ANNE, and his servant Margaret JONES indexed as
Margaret SMITH... total unfindables - and around 15% of them if I
remember correctly...

There is simply no substitute for two independant (locally
knowledged) transcribers and an expert independant adjudicator if
one is to hope to get good quality.

Hugh Ainsley

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