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 >