The census takers wrote the names the way they heard them. I had one ancestor whose name was Lodema and the census taker wrote it as Rodina. It took me a long time to realize there wasn't a person named Rodina. http://www.geocities.com/fcruble/velmasfamilygenealogy.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Errors in Ancestr... > > Errors are not always the fault of the transcriber as the original could > be > an error. My father's family could not be found in the 1920 census. It was > when I was looking for a whole different surname that I found the family. > The > census had the name as Schrantz and not Schmitz. These kind of errors > cannot be > corrected but maybe an addendum of some sort could be added. We are > dealing with the original census taker who wrote on cards. The town > clerk's office > would then transcribe the handwriting on these cards onto a larger sheet > of > paper and that is why the handwriting is so uniform for a bit - one person > did > the writing. Then the Ancestry or another group would do more > transcribing. > Lots of room for error. > > Ruth Cherecwich > > In a message dated 11/13/2006 3:03:55 AM Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I too have found wrong info in Ancestry databases. As > I am not a subscriber, am not allowed to address the > issue? > > The mistakes I found on one census file is awful. My > Mothers family, had her fathers middle inital wrong, > three of the children's names spelled wrong, (if you > look at the actual microfilm you can enlarge it and > see that the spelling is wrong), so how does one get > this fixed? > Thank you in advance. > > > > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >