In a message dated 6/16/2005 7:55:09 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: think most of the transcribing errors occur when the transcriber just plain can't read what the census enumerator wrote down...and often the writing has faded anyway.. Overall, whoever did the transcribing really did well considering some of the pages they had to work with. very true. My grandmother's name is Estelle and it was transcribed as "Castle".