Ancestry has a built in way to make corrections. Annie in Minnesota In a message dated 9/30/2009 5:45:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time, dav.barber@btinternet.com writes: Cliff I have been doing a blanket search of the marriages for the family CHRISTOPHER. In 500 entries I have found 5% error where the real surname has been omitted e.g. John Christopher Miller has been transcribed as John Christopher. This is not a complaint, I have transcribed myself and know how difficult the task can be, this is still a wonderful resource. What I would like to know is have you found a route for introducing corrections? Regards Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Webb, Cliff" <cwebb@rmluk.com> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:53 PM Subject: [SRY] Ancestry.com and London Metropolitan Archives recordscorrections >I am posting this on both Middlesex and Surrey lists, as there is > overlap. I have started analysing the Ancestry digital coverage of > registers. At the moment I am working on the baptisms and burials to > 1812 and marriages to 1754 section, i.e. the one they have not indexed. > I will be asking West Surrey FHS to put my findings in some form on our > website, so they may be of maximum utility. Frankly, it is incredible > that Ancestry have not themselves done this analysis. There are, in what > I have done so far, some serious errors of allocation, and I want to > draw the attention of searchers to them. The material is organised by > borough and then parish and I have followed this. I have used C = > baptisms, M -= marriages and B = burials > > London Borough of Barnet: St Giles, South Mimms. Ancestry list says > 1754-1812, it is actually CB 1558-1703 > London Borough of Barnet: St Mary,Hendon Ancestry list says 1703-67, yes > CB 1703-67, M 1703-30 but St Mary, Heston in London Borough of Hounslow > London Borough of Bexley: St Michael, Welling Ancestry list says > 1558-1653, yes CMB 1558-1653 but of St Michael Paternoster Royal in the > City > London Borough of Brent: St Mary, Willesden Ancestry list says 1569-74, > actually C 1569-1741, M 1574-1738, B 1572-1741 > London Borough of Camden: Ancestry list says Emmanuel, Hampstead > actually St John at Hampstead > London Borough of Camden: Ancestry list says Percy Chapel 1747-1808, > actually Percy Chapel C 1776-1808, Middlesex Hospital C 1747-53 and > Fitzroy Chapel C 1779-1805 > London Borough of Camden: Ancestry list says St Pancras Parish Church > 1793-96 actually B 1793-1812 > London Borough of Ealing: The 'St Mary' tabs give a mixture of St Mary, > Acton and St Mary, Ealing records > London Borough of Ealing: St Mary Hanwell Ancestry list says 1570-1784 > actually CB 1570-1719, M 1571-1722 > London Borough of Ealing: St Mary Hanwell Ancestry list tabs 1717-24, > 1724-60 and 1733-64 are actually St Mary Ealing > London Borough of Greenwich: St Alfege tab '1893-1903' is actually C > 1722-83, while '1903-13' is actually C 1784-1812 > London Borough of Hackney has no obvious errors but Ancestry's failure > to give C or M or B make the list of Shoreditch almost impossible to use > London Borough of Haringey: St James, Muswell Hill; these are all of > Northolt (in London Borough of Ealing), the 1560-1701 is roughly right, > but 1700-01 also has B 1678-1724 and 1801-01 is just Banns > London Borough of Haringey: St Mary, Hornsey the tab 1810-32 is actually > Banns 1767-68 > London Borough of Harrow; all the St Mary tabs are St Mary, Harrow > London Borough of Hillingdon; all the St John the Baptist tabs refer to > St John the Baptist, Hillingdon > London Borough of Hillingdon Ancestry list says St Mary, Hayes > 1792-1803, actually CB 1792-1812 > London Borough of Hounslow: St Paul, Hounslow Heath is actually Holy > Trinity, Hounslow > London Borough of Islington: Christ Church, Islington is actually Christ > Church Newgate Street in the City > London Borough of Islington: St John the Baptist, Clerkenwell the > 1742-84 tab is actually St James, Clerkenwell and digitised there as > well > London Borough of Islington: St Luke, Milwall is actually St Luke Old > Street > London Borough of Islington: St Mary is St Mary, Islington > > I have done the boroughs alphabetically to the end of Islington, except > the City which I dread as there are so many parishes. However, I trust > this will be useful to researchers. > > Regards > Cliff Webb > > > > > > Cliff Webb > > Director > Rattner Mackenzie Limited > A subsidiary of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. > > Mailto:cwebb@rmluk.com > Tel: +44 20 7480 5511 > > This e-mail contains confidential information, and may contain privileged > information, which is the property of the sender, and is intended solely > for the attention and use of the addressee. If you are not the named > addressee, you must not disclose, copy or retransmit this transmission or > take any other action in reliance upon this transmission, and you should > notify us as soon as possible. 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