There is often a little "pen" mark next to the name, indicating there is a alteration, and often the corrected name shows up in searches, as well as the original one, they do it this way so anyone who found record before correction, can still find it, or some reason like that ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Williams" <pgwilliams@paradise.net.nz> To: <new-zealand@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2014 10:28 Subject: Re: [nz] error in NZ bdm on ancestry > Apologies - meant to send to the list as well :-) > > In my experience, that is the way Ancestry has always handled > corrections - > showing them as a comment. My early corrections of some census > transcriptions handled in the same manner. FreeBMD generally shows > corrections in a similar manner as well. I guess we're fortunate that DIA > seem to correct the database entry so that the corrected name shows in a > query (Oh to have place names and the ability for wildcard searching > though). > > I haven't had too much spare time to browse this collection but do these > errors look like the result of an OCR operation? The place name errors > can't > have come from the original fiche entries as prior to 1956 they weren't > there. My own entry shows I was registered in NZ rather than my place of > birth. > > As there don't seem to be images attached to the entries (at least not > when > I looked), we should, as a matter of course, be checking the fiche > ourselves, else we're looking at a transcription of a transcription! > > Peter Williams > Lower Hutt > > -----Original Message----- > From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Blanche Charles > Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2014 10/10:46 a.m. > To: new-zealand@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [nz] error in NZ bdm on ancestry > > I had the same issue, Patsy, so I used the facility on the left of the > screen to report an error. (I also made a comment). > > Ancestry has since thanked me for my contribution and invited me to click > on > the link to view their changes. When I did so I found the original entry > was > unaltered. My comment, showing the correction, was the only means of > picking > up the correction! > > Good luck!!!! > > Cheers > > Blanche Charles > Waikanae, Kapiti Coast > > On Sat, 31 May 2014, Patsy <patsym@inet.net.nz> wrote: > > they have spelt MY name incorrectly on the Ancestry NZ Birth index how do > I > get that corrected? does anyone know?? > > ************* > > > > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3955/7601 - Release Date: 05/31/14 > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3955/7601 - Release Date: 05/31/14