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From: "Rob" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] people can give the wrong info.
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:33:12 +0100
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I think that is the reason we have to think laterally and not literally when
search the census. We have to remember that in the later census they may
not have been collected by a local enumerator, or the writing was so bad
they guessed at the odd letter
Rob
http://acorngenealogy.co.uk
http://www.enchantedtimes.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erin 1" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:20 AM
Subject: RE: [YKS] people can give the wrong info.


> Sometimes I've tried to *listen* to the words in the persons accent to see
> and have managed to find a few things that way - eg. an ancestor from
> "Hutton" in Somerset being recorded as "Hatton" - if you say "Hutton" with
> a Somerset accent it sounds like "Hatton"
>
> :o)
>
>>From: eric gordon moody <>
>>Reply-To:
>>To:
>>Subject: RE: [YKS] people can give the wrong info.
>>Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:31:58 +0200 (CEST)
>>
>>Hi! It may not be the "customers" giving wrong info. I have a case where
>>an enumerator gave a place of birth as "Essex, Heath". I've made extensive
>>enquiries, and nobody has heard of this place- there are lots of "Heath"s,
>>around the area, but I suspect that the enumerator didn't understand the
>>word before Heath, or couldn't spell it, so left it out, hoping that
>>nobody would notice. I was the unlucky one who did notice, and to whom it
>>was important - resulting in a Brick Wall!
>>Happy Hunting,
>>Gordon Moody,
>>Scarborough, NYKS>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>========================================
>>Message Received: Jul 02 2006, 09:46 AM
>>From: "Denise"
>>To:
>>Cc:
>>Subject: [YKS] people can give the wrong info.
>>
>>Hiya ,
>>
>>Not knocking Latter Day Saint or anything but over the year I have come
>>across a lot of mistakes in year of births and parishes...... sometimes
>>whoever gives them the information that information can be wrong . I have
>>proved it with dates and parishes ....so you can't always take it as
>>Gospel.
>>
>>
>>They are a good kick start to begin ....was for me until my brains ended
>>up like scrambled eggs years later because of mistakes in births and
>>marriages there. It can really get you on the wrong track.
>>
>>Also I had all of one of all ancestors on their 1881 census cds , then
>>when I purchased the 1at and 2nd addition of British Isle Births and
>>Marriages...none of them where to be seen and I so contacted Latter Sts
>>and asked how come? and they told me (5 yrs ago) that they will probably
>>be on the 3rd addition which would be available soon......hate to be
>>hangin' by the neck as its still not available....
>>
>>No one's perfect I s'pose.
>>
>>Denise
>>
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>>Gordon Moody,
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>>
>>Scarborough,
>>
>>
>>North Yorkshire.
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