Right. The transcribers are doing wonderful work. The opportunities for errors in the original documents are the issue. Apart from language issues, it may be that the person available to answer the questions either didn’t quite understand what was wanted or didn’t actually know so guessed. My grandfather was recorded in Canada in1911 in both his birth home AND the home he and new bride occupied! A transcriber would have to record both, even if (unlikely) they knew it to be wrong! It all adds to the challenge. Dixie Cutler On Nov 19, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Sue Visser via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Thanks for adding that Jim. I think we've taken a side road from the > original post. I posted about how census takers mis-heard and recorded that > incorrect information given to them mainly due to language barriers. This > adds to our challenge when searching records and requires us to be creative > in searching. >