Have to agree to. I have found 114 Pullums using a "normal" search and so far another 31 using some (in fact a lot in some cases) imagination including a first name and place only - one family that was clearly Pullum on the original was transcribed as ???? and another P??? Nikki Brown #6552 Pullum ONS https://pullumons.wordpress.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Jones via" <[email protected]> To: "John P Laws" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 26 April, 2016 5:00:28 PM Subject: Re: [G] 1939 Register occupations Couldn't agree more. Think FMP have excelled themselves in their lack of vigilance. Makes me wonder just who they employed to transcribe and how much they were paid. Sent from my iPad > On 26 Apr 2016, at 15:06, John P Laws via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi One-Namers Everywhere > > It is my view that Ancestry & FMP or whosoever undertook the transcription > of our national records, paid their transcribers by quantity not by quality > and that any vigilation was kept to a minimum. > > > John P Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > Putting Flesh on the Bones of History > > www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.co.uk > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robin Border via > Sent: 26 April, 2016 2:31 PM > To: Peter Armstrong; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [G] 1939 Register occupations > > Submitting dozens - its the only way we will get it right Robin Border >> On 26 Apr 2016, at 13:56, Peter Armstrong via <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I had one similarly transcribed as "???" which I could clearly read as >> "Wholesale Merchant Dealing in Druggists Sundries Medicines Smallware >> etc" - possibly the longest occupation description I have seen and >> written in tiny handwriting! A correction was submitted and accepted >> by FMP. I trust other folks are submitting their corrections to the 1939 > Register. >> >> Regards, >> Peter Armstrong >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Adrian Abbott via" <[email protected]> >> To: "Celia Dodd" <[email protected]>; "GOONS" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:32 PM >> Subject: Re: [G] 1939 Register occupations >> >> >>> Maybe we should have some sympathy for the transcribers, but one of >>> mine where the original said quite clearly "Sulphate of Ammonia >>> Worker in Bye-Product Works" was transcribed as "???" >>> >>> Adrian >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > 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 _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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 -- Nikki Brown #6552 Pullum ONS https://pullumons.wordpress.com