I assume Ancestry used the FamilySearch transcription and FMP has loaded its data from somewhere else.  I suggest someone submits a correction to FMP.   Joy ________________________________ From: Numero Uno <orange.wasps@live.co.uk> To: cheshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2014, 19:07 Subject: Re: [CHS] Kyffin It appears in Ancestry as Elizabeth Kiffin, baptised 13 April 1740, Holy Trinity Chester, daughter of Thomas, and cites FHL Film 0924608 IT 1 as the source.  This is, however, a transcription. Ruth in Hampshire > -----Original Message----- > From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joy Langdon > Sent: 09 March 2014 18:59 > To: Tony Spendel; cheshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CHS] Kyffin > > I searched on all the Elizabeths born in Chester in 1740 and > it has been mistranscribed as RIFFIN. >   > Joy >  > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

<<snipped>> I assume Ancestry used the FamilySearch transcription and FMP has loaded its data from somewhere else.  I suggest someone submits a correction to FMP. <<snipped>> This caught my attention as the suggestion is unlikely, as FMP got the indexes from FamilySearch. For what it's worth.... If you do a search in Ancestry on Elizabeth *ffin (the "*" is a wild card) you get - Elizabeth Kiffin from LDS film "0924608 IT 1" and - Elizabeth Riffin from LDS film 2068258. The latter film is "Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Chester, 1654-1938" while "0924608" is a film of a transcript (as was suggested earlier), "Parish register of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the city of Chester, 1532-1837", "Author: Farrall, L. M". Since FMP used the indexes of the microfilmed PRs (and BTs) from FS, then it has "Riffin" only, while Ancestry, because it loaded all FS's indexes, to both microfilms and books, had both spellings. The source of Ancestry's and FMP's indexes are of interest only if (like me) you're interested in that sort of conundrum. What is perhaps of interest to us all, is the use of the wild card search - rather than look through all Elizabeths born in a particular year (potentially a heroic task), looking for the surname "*ffin" will find all surnames ending in "ffin". Wild cards can be a very useful part of the toolbox in searching. Adrian B