Unconfigured Ad Widget

Collapse

Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

If anybody's looking for a Walter on ancestry...

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • If anybody's looking for a Walter on ancestry...

    ... I just discovered how many Wlaters there are on there! Oh dear!
    KiteRunner

    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
    (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

  • #2
    Cripes!!

    And quite disappointing to see that 200+ of them are from FreeBMD
    Zoe in London

    Cio che Dio vuole, io voglio ~ What God wills, I will

    Comment


    • #3
      just as many for "Joesph"

      and don't even look at the number transcribed as "Geroge"

      almost 29000 in the census alone

      and that's just my most common typos
      Zoe in London

      Cio che Dio vuole, io voglio ~ What God wills, I will

      Comment


      • #4
        Is it any wonder we struggle with our Hepzibahs and Reubens :-)
        Asa

        Comment


        • #5
          George is often misrecorded as Goerge too.
          ~ with love from Little Nell~
          Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

          Comment


          • #6
            What irritates me on Ancestry - if you post a correction GEORGE for GEROGE, it appears as:

            GEORGE - alternative name GEROGE.

            Exactly how many Geroges have you met in your lifetime?

            OC

            Comment


            • #7
              And there's JOSPEH - I know because I do that one myself!

              Christine
              Researching: 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)...

              Comment


              • #8
                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")

                Comment


                • #9
                  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

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    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")

                    Comment


                    • #11
                      ancestry mangledmy walter- whatter crosfield. no wonder he was hard to find

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X