Very relevant indeed Ray... I’m always picking up discrepancies on many sites that I use, not just ancestry... cemetery databases are shocking and NZ Dept Internal Affairs historical BDM indexes... always writing to these sites to advise... in fact with some i do a spread sheet and send! Yes some are ‘informant’ errors but it is good for them to be noted. I do much research on grave photos I take, not just family research and also am volunteer researcher for a cemetery group Trust so find high percentages of errors. Cheers – have a fabulous long weekend people! Get stuck into that research! Sarndra From: Ray Rob Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 10:12 AM To: Sarndra Cc: new-zealand Subject: Re: [nz] What went wrong with the Ancestry NZ BMD site? Why so manyerrors? Agreed , Sarndra The following tips seem relevant : http://blog.mocavo.com/category/research-tips On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Sarndra <sarndra@sarndra.com> wrote: It's been noticed in the NZ History and genealogy group in Facebook that I frequent that almost from the day Ancestry added the information on site... totally untrustworthy information including name transcriptions which of course gives you a brick wall if you don't think outside the square to try ways it might be entered incorrectly. Even in my own research I've noticed it, that's why unless you can sight actual documentation and not 'transcriptions', the ancestry information should not be trusted - and even in some of those instances actual documentation can still be wrong. Hopefully Ancestry are on to this, however if they were, I'd have thought they'd have pulled the information until it was amended. Cheers Sarndra -----Original Message----- From: Olwyn Whitehouse Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 9:17 AM To: new-zealand Subject: [nz] What went wrong with the Ancestry NZ BMD site? Why so manyerrors? http://search.ancestry.com/Places/New%20Zealand/Default.aspx?category=34&ldf=1 What problems are there with this database? I checked a few births and I know they were born in Fairlie or Timaru and not the Chathams. The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message