... I just discovered how many Wlaters there are on there! Oh dear!
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And there's JOSPEH - I know because I do that one myself!
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Luckily, it would be almost impossible for a FreeBMD transcriber using the current software to come up with any of those mistranscriptions, as all common first names are selected from a "picklist", plus there is a program for checking through your transcription, so I would imagine the FreeBMD ones came from very early transcriptions, and of course the second-keying that is being done now will flag them up as errors.KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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Oh dear. I have never thought to deliberately search for mistranscribed errors. Now I'm going to have to go and research them all again. :(
Findmypast transcriptions are quite good although I am never sure what to put in the place of birth as it's not split up like Ancestry is.Kit
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Yes, that was the problem with my "Wlater" - his birthplace was also mangled on ancestry so I had never managed to find him before. But it was on the 1851 census, so findmypast wouldn't have been any help to me!KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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