I don't disagree with reporting it both to FreeBMD and here, but I just felt to be fair to the transcribers to state why it might appear that way. I don't know if FreeBMD will do something like Ancestry does where you mouseover and it will show the alternate spelling that someone reported or if they will leave it the same. I am quite sure there will be tons more of these "incorrect" transcriptions as time goes on and more searches done, Lainee > [Original Message] > From: Stuart Ashton <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 3/3/2008 5:48:35 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] FreeBMD - Incorrect BirthTranscriptions -PENDLEBURY Q2 1899 > > Hi Lainee, > > I agree with you entirely, but I wouldn't have reported it as an error > if I wasn't 100% sure. > > I have 2 images - one from FreeBMD and one from Ancestry. The FreeFMD > entry could indeed look like a 'C' but is alphabetically out of order in > the index. The image from Ancestry is definitely a 'U'. > > I thought it only right to report it in this forum as some researchers > here might be missing some Pendleburys. > > Best regards, > Stuart > > [email protected] wrote: > > They may be incorrect in your eyes, Stuart, but having been a transcriber > > for another project, we are told to transcribe precisely what we see and > > NOT to guess at what it might be. So based on the original the U might > > well have appeared to be a C depending on the person who did the writing. > > This made it difficult as I have/had done extensive research in the area > > that I was transcribing and knew what the name should be, but could only > > transcribe it as I saw it. If not, then it wasn't a transcription, but my > > interpretation of what the records should be. > > > > Lainee