Hmmmm.? Ancestry have a very good means to add corrections plus the varied reasons for same, in fact you can't do a correction without selecting a reason, there is also a box to enter details in, very worthwhile doing as the corrections and notes added have a link to the person entering the correction I have added or corrected many of them, I have been contacted on many occasions by interested parties, many of those I enter are not connected to my research but are those I come across whilst researching for others, when I get a contact for those I can often point them in the right direction On Ancestry, any corrections or alterations are *added* to the searchable transcript, so either will be found and should an opinion vary a second or more correction can be added -------------- Findmypast have never had a useful way of adding corrections, I have reported many corrections to findmypast and often they have refused to follow them through (I have only reported errors in the transcription, not opinion or other knowledge based) if I subsequently send the same again they are often accepted, but now as Annette says, the system if so slow and unwieldy its likely to put off a great many from doing it On the locations, that is precisely how Ancestry do it, the problem is the listing is incomplete or inaccurate, it also leads to problems with the wrong place being selected in error, leading to strange birthplaces on occasion, there are many examples of the wrong place being selected often in the wrong country entirely What you need in a perfect world is a team of transcribers who have intimate knowledge of every place they are transcribing including every place in the world, but that is an impossible target, people will see what they see and transcribe what they think it says, and so they should I am extremely grateful for *all* transcriptions, good and bad, at least we have some access, thankfully the vast majority of transcription work is fairly accurate Was the GRO birth index error pre 1916? if so it would be from freebmd No one is perfect, mistakes are made Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 10/04/2014 08:20, [email protected] wrote: > As I have been told so many times when grumbling -the golden rule of > transcribers is to transcribe what they see...but wouldn't it be nice on > commercial sites if for place names their "seeing" was aided by the list > of actual place names. A transcriber looking at iffy handwriting and > thinking ...haM could see they were mistaken if they had looked at a > list of Norfolk villages. Since we pay for FindMyPast and Ancestry it > would be nice if they did at the very least include a transcriber > corrected alternative in the index/search. Other transcriptions made by > dedicated volunteers are beyond reproach in my opinion, such is my > gratitude. > As for making corrections awkward-I gave up adding a reason for > correcting Ancestry because I was too tempted to put " it just is!" > Just found a Blaxter for Thaxter on the GRO birth index-GRO mistake. > Rosie

I have submitted several obvious mistakes to Findmypast but they replied choosing to ignore them, as they said that is what the enumerator wrote. That does not help anybody. I have now given up with them. Ancestry are much better with the system they have - 100% of the changes I submitted have been recorded. Shame on Findmypast - there is no way of correcting other peoples mistakes. Alan M.

I agree with you about not getting FMP to correct mistakes.. While searching on there for a person I found that on the page the first person had their name below the first line but their place of death above the line , so all the rest of the people on that page had a incorrect place of death and one really had to look at the one above to get it correct. They told me there was nothing wrong with it..how blind can you be. Mary Sydney -----Original Message----- From: Alan Munford Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NFK] Census on Findmypast - corrections I have submitted several obvious mistakes to Findmypast but they replied choosing to ignore them, as they said that is what the enumerator wrote. That does not help anybody. I have now given up with them. Ancestry are much better with the system they have - 100% of the changes I submitted have been recorded. Shame on Findmypast - there is no way of correcting other peoples mistakes. Alan M. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message