Ancestry has a place where one can make corrections and explanations which I what I actually meant. The search page has a notation that there are corrections for the record and those can be read there. The listing is still wrong, however there is a blip to click on where those updates can be read. I agree with you in that the writing is difficult to read on some census pages. My ggrandmother Lusetta is listed as Susetta because the "L" really does look like an "S". Confounding the confusion is her mother is Susan on the census so a transcriber could have easily thought that her name was Susetta. I do have confirmed proof that her name was Lusetta, however there is another fly in the ointment in that is it sometimes spelled as "Lusetta" and sometimes "Lucetta". -----Original Message----- From: njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bill Boscia Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:53 AM To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! I have no connection to Ancestry.com and only subscribe every so often But; In your example the only thing that they have an obligation to correct is the transcription error # 3. It would be nice if they dual index #1, As far as your grandmother's name - that is the name that was given to the census taker. Please have pity on volunteer transcribers, especially those who transcribe from the 16 and 1700's. Those records were written with a feather quill by a person who wrote what they heard. A lot of the time the only way a transcriber knows the name is if they know what the name should be. There is also the question on how to transcribe a f when the modern spelling is s, the same for l and r. Bill Boscia

I made one of those corrections on ancestry.com when I discovered that the transcription of my Wofford family in one census entry was so wildly wrong that no one using the search function would ever find it. What I assumed, but don't actually know, is that a researcher now looking for my Woffords will be directed to that particular census entry due to my correction, despite the transcription mistake. I hope that is the case!   Judy Winston in Dallas ________________________________ From: Jacqueline Lubinski <jwlube@ptd.net> To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2012 10:31 AM Subject: [NJHUNTER] Transcriptions on the census - WAS:RE: Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Ancestry has a place where one can make corrections and explanations which I what I actually meant. The search page has a notation that there are corrections for the record and those can be read there. The listing is still wrong, however there is a blip to click on where those updates can be read. I agree with you in that the writing is difficult to read on some census pages. My ggrandmother Lusetta is listed as Susetta because the "L" really does look like an "S". Confounding the confusion is her mother is Susan on the census so a transcriber could have easily thought that her name was Susetta. I do have confirmed proof that her name was Lusetta, however there is another fly in the ointment in that is it sometimes spelled as "Lusetta" and sometimes "Lucetta". -----Original Message----- From: njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bill Boscia Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:53 AM To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! I have no connection to Ancestry.com and only subscribe every so often But; In your example the only thing that they have an obligation to correct is the transcription error # 3. It would be nice if they dual index #1, As far as your grandmother's name - that is the name that was given to the census taker. Please have pity on volunteer transcribers, especially those who transcribe from the 16 and 1700's. Those records were written with a feather quill by a person who wrote what they heard. A lot of the time the only way a transcriber knows the name is if they know what the name should be. There is also the question on how to transcribe a f when the modern spelling is s, the same for l and r. Bill Boscia Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message