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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] "Conclusions"
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:38:04 -0600
References: <005FE245010C0A0E372E00500A@Judy-PC> <2011112102554.663082@Terry>
In-Reply-To: <2011112102554.663082@Terry>


Terry, often times the transcription on Ancestry is exactly as I see it as
well, it's just not a common spelling of the name. For instance, my Lannom
family is often transcribed as Lannon. When you look at the film, it's hard
to tell if that last letter is an N or a M. Because I know the name is
Lannom, I'd see an M, but if you looked at it, you'd say no it is an N. So
the transcription is what the name looks like, just not the common spelling
of the name.
Also different companies will transcribe the name differently. I have used
Ancestry's indexes before and then tried to look the same name up on
Heritage Quest and haven't found anyone because their index has the name
another way (and does not use soundex).

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Terry Reigel
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:26 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] "Conclusions"

Judy Madnick wrote:

> I include in a memo the name as it appears in the
> transcription so that the reader knows what spelling to
> use if he or she wishes to search for it (and so that *I
> * can remember the transcribed spelling!!) ...

But if you correct the transcription on Ancestry neither you nor anyone else
has to search for the erroneous one again.

Terry Reigel

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