This was on LANCSGEN list today. Looks as though it's worth another look at 1901 census site if there was anyone you thought should be there but failed to find. Handy that you can look at just the amendments. Keep sending the corrections in folks! Malcolm Borrowdale (Swinton, Lancs.) ----- Original Message ----- From: John Burns <john@johnburns.com> To: <LANCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2:08 AM Subject: [LAN] PRO Website Transcription Amendments > HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL. > > Just for info. looks like the PRO are taking notice of amendments to > transcription errors made on their website. All of the errors I have > notified them about in last 3-4 months have now been corrected. It would > be worthwhile to us all that if you do notice an error in the > transcription based upon either interpreting the image directly or using > other information you already have (e.g. birth certificates etc) that > you do submit them to the PRO using the relevant (Contact Us) page on > their website: > > http://www.census.pro.gov.uk > > One of my relatives was named ZACK but on the website was transcribed as > ZACK. Sure the image was a bit difficult to read but I quoted the birth > certificate I already had and they have now changed to the correct name. > > A list of amendments already made can be viewed from the webpages > starting at: > http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/changes_index.html > > Rgds John > > Lancashire Surname List at http://lancslist.com > BMD Certificates and Census Request Forums at > http://lancslist.com/forums > Free 1901 England/Wales Census Decoder Software from > http://lancslist.info > MLFHS membership number: 6259 > Old Books Available On CD from http://www.archivecdbooks.org > > ______________________________