I recently politely asked Family Search to change a name of one of my great grandparents that they mispelled so badly it would have caused a newbie to search elsewhere in vain.  They politely said that that was the way it was transcribed, and it would stay that way.   That's the kind of thing that makes you want to pull out your hair at the roots (no pun intended).  At least they don't charge for the service(?).  ________________________________ From: Jacqueline Lubinski <jwlube@ptd.net> To: 'BMacKie' <lumackie@gmail.com>; njhunter@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2012 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! I found that out with my very first search years ago! My grandfather's name is spelled Gonzol but pronounced Gernzel in phonetic Hungarian. Ancestry.com has the family in the 1920 census as Guernsey, my grandmother's name is listed as Mary (nor Borbala), and my mom is listed as Serena instead of Irene. There are 3 errors here in this family alone. The first two are due to the census taker, and the 3rd (my mom's name) is because the transcriber to Ancestry.com read Irene as Serena and that is how she is listed in their database. I made corrections to their files. In doing Ancestry searches one has to really "think outside the box". Sometimes it is not as easy as WDYTYA on tv portrays it to be. -----Original Message----- From: njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BMacKie Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 6:17 AM To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Mr. Bill (I love that)....I suggest that nearly all information on Ancestry.com is questionable from the getgo and should never be taken for granted.  This is not a criticism, it is merely an observance over a twenty year period of time.  ________________________________ From: Mr. Bill Hartman <mrbill1033@comcast.net> To: NJHUNTER <njhunter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:12 PM Subject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! To change the current DNA hoopla, read on! I have discovered that nearly all the Deaths reported in the Hunterdon Republican newspaper that occurred from January 1, 1895 until June 30, 1895 were recorded as '1894' in the Listings on Ancestry.com. This was seen in nearly 200 deaths and they occurred not only from deaths in Hunterdon County, but also other New Jersey Counties. It is my opinion that the error is most likely due to the indexer who read the microfilm of the originals and typed the wrong year. This opinion needs to be verified by someone who has access to the original data, since the implication would mean that hundreds of deaths in the time period noted above are suspect. I will contact Ancestry.com and tell them my findings, which you may see by going to the Hunterdon Republican Website, see below Regards, MrBill Hunterdon Republican newspaper, visit: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhrna/ 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 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 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