My experience of FMP corrections is a bit different, I had a family of five where the surname was transcribed as Sayer instead of Sagar, it spanned two pages, three names on the bottom of one page and two names on the next page. I received an email confirmibg that the three names on page 1 would be corrected, but got an email to say they were satisfied with their transcription of the other two names and would disregard my correction. I was particularly surprised since the names on page 2 were 'do' so referred to the name on the previous page. I have tried Findmypast various times over the years and I find it far less flexible thab Ancestry, I suppose like everything else the customer chooses the product that suits them and since I have so many ancestors based in and around London, Ancestry wins every time. Irene Blackburn On 23 Mar 2012, at 20:43, Lorna Craig <l.m.craig@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > On 23/03/2012 17:35, Paul White wrote: >> You've prompted me to do a comparison of result counts for a selection of unusual names in the 1871 census. I can assure you that more often than not FindMypast finds more than Ancestry. And, while FMP is not by any means perfect, I reckon the results are more trustworthy. This accords with my recent experience of failing to find something in Ancestry, then using FMP (credits) and succeeding right away. >> >> Furthermore Ancestry has a superb facility for users to input transcription corrections plus their views on "incorrect in image", plus any other "variants" (that are often used in practice to enter women's maiden names). The effect of this, though, is to muddy the water so that where Ancestry *does* come up with more results than FMP there is strong reason to doubt it's more accurate in a strict sense. >> > In my experience, too, Findmypast transcriptions are generally more > accurate that Ancestry. > I'd like to add that Findmypast also has an excellent and efficient > system for reporting transcription errors (but not variants: they stick > strictly to what is in the image). If you report a transcription error > for a census or BMD record you get a prompt email acknowledgement with a > promise that it will be looked at within 28 days. In fact it usually > only takes a few days and on one occasion only a few HOURS before they > make the correction! So I would encourage everyone to report any > transcription errors they find on FMP, for the benefit of others. > > Lorna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message