Some transcribers need glasses

[thecelticbard]

Steve, Ben, now I know how lucky I am that YSTRADYFODWG and RHONDDA are hardly likely to appear anywhere else. Thanks both, you made my day. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[DaveHam9]

Lanihorne Cornwall England transcribed as Langhome Carlow Ireland

 

[ptjw7]

Not only do they need glasses, a brain would be good as well.
The Electoral Rolls on Ancestry are a real joke! the address is a guess at best and searching through 2 pages of fine print is a chore and when you do find the record it is nothing like the transcription(not that I can see)

Peter

 

[joaning]

I have recently been a volunteer doing some transcribing.
Even though I know what it should read, I cannot put other than what I see.
Thems the rules. Joan

 

[DaveHam9]

1851
HO107 Piece 1942 Folio 131 Page 63
Civil Parish: Lyncombe and Widcombe
County: Somerset
Registration District: Bath
Sub-RD: Lyncombe
ED: 1d
No of Schedule: 325
Address: 3 Ebenezer Terrace
[William Millard Head Mar 26 Book Binder Journeyman Bath Somerset]
Ann M Millard Wife Mar 26 Dress Maker Griddleton ? Wiltshire
Samuel Millard son 2 Bath Somerset
[Martha Millard dau 9mo Bath Somerset]


William missing from the transcription on A... and Ann's age as 25 although it is clearly 26.

Martha is on the next page.

 

[DaveHam9]

Not easy finding people in census when Vavasseur is transcribed as Hardfseur or Navafsena.


I'm finding hundreds of errors in the transcriptions of the Australian Electoral rolls.

1937 NSW roll with Narrabeen transcribed as Mosman.

 

[benny1982]

I have seen things like a 35 year old couple on the census transcriptions with a 63 year old son when the original actually says the son is 13.